Bagpipe Tutorial for Kids (eBook)

Congratulations! You have purchased one of the most comprehensive textbooks for children for learning the bagpipes. Recommended by the best pipers in the world!The children's textbook is suitable for absolute beginners from the age of 6 as a companion book to the lessons. In our bagpipe school, your child will receive pedagogical tuition of the highest level. The Bagpipe Tutorial for Children contains many tunes composed by our teacher Susy Klinger. Furthermore, it contains the most important finger techniques as well as many exercises that your child needs to successfully learn the bagpipes. Fairy Flora and Patrick MacCrimmon guide your child through the textbook and show how to learn the bagpipes from scratch with playful exercises. This book is also used for training purposes by many bagpipe youth bands as well as bagpipe schools. Its aim is to give the learning child a technically and musically solid foundation and expert guidance on the route to becoming an accomplished piper. To complement the Bagpipe Tutorial for Children, we recommend the Bagpipe Tutorial App. The app is the world's most comprehensive multimedia reference work for fingering techniques that are needed for playing the bagpipes. With the help of over 250 soundtracks and visual displays, your child will learn all the note combinations, embellishments, all the tunes found in the Bagpipe Tutorial as well as many important exercises needed in playing the Scottish bagpipes. With the Bagpipe Tutorial App you always have all the videos for the exercises and tunes available with you on your smart phone or tablet for your child. Susy Klinger's Bagpipe Tutorial for Children sets a milestone in expertly teaching children how to play the Scottish bagpipes. Do you have any questions about playing the bagpipes or are you looking for the right practice chanter? Send us an e-mail. We will be pleased to advise you in detail.

Susy Klinger has been studying Scottish music since 2003 and regularly travels to the College of Piping in Glasgow for private lessons. In 2012, Susy began lessons with Willie McCallum, one of the world's best bagpipers. He is a regular guest teacher at the Bagpipe School. Very early in her bagpipe career Susy took part in competitions and achieved great success in Scotland. She was overall winner in Piobaireachd of the CLASP in grade 1 (competitions for amateur bagpipers in Scotland) and achieved 3rd place (out of 30 players) at the Archie Kenneth Quaich in Edinburgh in 2013. These are just a few results in a long list of prizes she won internationally. Susy Klinger played with a renowned bagpipe band in Germany for several years before joining Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band in Scotland for a few seasons. At the time, the band was very successful in grade 2 and won many competitions. During that time, Susy was able to gain an enormous amount of experience in all areas of bagpipe playing. As a trained teacher, Susy is very familiar with teaching children and young people. Currently, Susy is working very hard on her solo career and teaches students from all over the country. Susy Klingers Bagpipe Tutorial for Children sets a milestone in expertly teaching children how to play the Scottish bagpipes.