Mikie’s Masterclass: Piping Technique for the Whistle
This course is an abundant study of technique, packed with bounces, cranns, rolls, double rolls, trills, backward stitches, open backward stitches, backward rolls and triplets! It is not only for the whistler but is relevant to the flautist and the piper too. Throughout the series of nine lessons, Mikie largely focuses on the repertoire of Seamus Ennis, the great Irish piper, singer and folk collector (1919-1982).
The beauty of Mikie’s classes is that they are relevant for ANY level of playing. He teaches the bare melody of each tune slowly, phrase by phrase before giving a lesson on advanced technique and how to create the ‘bubbles’ and ‘crunches’ within the tune in question. This course is complete with a ‘technique bank’, that is a page given at the end of the course cataloguing all the new techniques introduced in the course.
Check out the free lessons page to view the sample lesson for this course.