ViperPiper's Bagpipe Tunes

Very nice. I'm still working on Dirty Rice and Haggis - looks like you really like those high A staccato effects.

Nice work Simon. Good idea to choose a 4/4 - keeps it accessible to all your bands. Nice playing last night too, especially the final hornpipes. Hot stuff! I suggest you look for more public speaking opportunities to help improve your confidence when you aren't blowing - people want to hear what you...

Great tune Ben, and in my favourite key.

I love the catch phrase in bar 4 of each part. The bounce notes - eg low a's in part3/bar1 and low g's in part3/bar 2 - give a great effect.

Keep 'em coming

I wrote this for my tutor - the name of the tune is her email address.

What do you think? Does it work?

I was humming this tune to myself on the bike the other day and I found myself humming two more parts, so here they are all together.

That's wicked. I'd love to play it but my fingers are going to need somehelp.

it rocks

And here's the image

I'm not sure if this really counts as a hornpipe, but I can't think how else to classify it. The tune came into my head as I was motorcycling home one rainy night after work. Curletts Road is a short stretch of open road on my regular commute. On a busy rainy night it's an invigorating ride. I hope ...

I think this was my favourite of the four as well. I changed the second part to use the second half of the first part on its repeat (2 of 2) - I think it brings the theme back as the tune finishes. I also loved The Nippler. That second part has a real drilling/driving effect that works well. Bloody ...

Thanks for the tip on the bmw formatting. I use Electric Pipes to play my tunes back because the sound is more like real pipes. I guess it must be a little more forgiving on the formatting. I guess every line should start with a bar line? Thanks also for the positive comments on the tune. That means...

Here's a four-part jig with a bit of syncopation - if you've already tried "Cock, Hook and Look" then you'll know that I like syncopation! The name of this one came about when my teenage daughter went to her first rock concert - my wife asked her what it was like down in the moss pit (mosh pit!). Le...

This is a four-part jig, but parts 1&3 and 2&4 are quite similar, so think of it as a two-parter with variations. Cock, Hook and Look is the stop-firing drill used in the NZ army when your self-loading rifle stops: Cock the rifle, hook the moving parts back, look inside the chamber. The SLR is now r...