Piper's Dojo Audio Experience

This week, we’re going to listen to one of Andrew’s most involved compositions, and look into the written score for analysis! This should be super fun this week.

We’ve been talking at the office lately of all the different ways bagpiping has enriched our lives! We think it’s time for a feel-good show about bagpipes! How have bagpipes made your life better? Let us count the ways! July 9th, 2014.

After doing some “you be the judge” over the past couple of weeks, folks have been asking – what exacly am I listening for here? And, that’s a great question! Now that we’ve wet our beaks a bit, let’s talk about the way we listen to pipe bands! July 2nd, 2014.

It’s that time of year again! Let’s do a blind listening test of the past weeks’ championships, and see if we get the same result as the judges did! June 25th, 2014.

It’s that time of year again! Let’s do a blind listening test of the past weeks’ championships, and see if we get the same result as the judges did! June 18th, 2014.

After last week’s show with Terry Lee, there’s a lot to soak in. What did you think? June 11th, 2014.

It’s our 100th show here at Dojo Universe, and the winningest Pipe Major of North American history (and one of the winningest of all time) will join us! We’ll interview him a bit, and just generally hang out. Bring your questions! June 4th, 2014.

Well, we don’t mean actual death of course, but there’s a lot of stuff that you should NOT do at the Games if you want to survive our crazy world. We’ll have some fun and go into it today! May 28th, 2014.

Now that Vin is back in the mix, let’s catch up on what he’s been up to over at PipeHacker.com – it’s a great blog for pipers, and we’ll get an inside look today. May 21st, 2014.

This week, let’s talk about how to get yourself set up to play gigs, and start to make a little bit of income! We’ll go through what tunes to play, how to pull off a great performance, and even how to get some promotional tools happening in your favor! May 7th, 2014.

Every few weeks, we like to open the floor to anything and everything about bagpipes! Sign in, type in a question, and we’ll rock and roll from there! April 30th, 2014.

At the Dojo, we have a “dead reed bin” where we send all of our reeds when they die. It seems a bit morbid we know, but, it’s a great way to develop a collection of reeds to practice our manipulation skills! April 23rd, 2014.

Just like in “real life,” bagpiping does have several key guiding principles that will help you develop into a good player. Discipline, problem solving, and even a sort of musical morality will guide us to become better players. Expecting instant gratification, however, will not help us achieve much at all…. April 16th, 2014

In this week’s show, we’re going to start by showing where all the games are this summer! Are there any that are worth travelling a bit to? Then, we’ll discuss how you might structure your practice/development rountine to realy make the most of your schedule! April 9th, 2014.

We didn’t get around to talking about top secret magician stuff for pipe bands! To get a pipe band in tune, you really just need one thing: MAGIC. We’re just kidding actually – this show will cover a lot of the basics of getting a pipe band to sound great. April 2nd, 2014.

We’re going to talk about some key tricks that pros use to master certain elements of their playng. From tuning, to practicing, to pipe bands, we’ll have lots of good stuff for you! March 26th, 2014.

We’ve been around the game a long time, and for us, the “rules” of piping are 2nd nature! But, that might not be the same for everyone, and so we’ll have a session this week to talk about it! March 19th, 2014.

As a follow up to last week, we wanted to take some more time to address viewer questions about learning the pipes. Tune in today to ask anything you want! March 12th, 2014.

Do you ever get stuck with a bagpipe problem that you don’t know how to solve… to the point where you lose sleep over it? Don’t worry. You’re not alone. We can help. March 5th, 2014.

Andrew, Vin, and Carl will go through their favorite must-have piping music. From albums, to DVDs, to YouTubes, to music books, we’ll cover it all! February 26th, 2014.