Had plenty of coffee? Money ok? Spouse love you? Dog obeys? Reeds
in tune?

Honey, you need some _real_ trouble in your life!

Evil Exercises for your pyping displeasure. Should be done on both
practice-chanter *and* full pipes. Bands -- exercises are terrific
for early warmup. Play pipe chanters only, don't sweat the tuning,
let the moisture stabilize the reeds while everyone's minds are
focusing on this hideous torture.

Some of these combinations are not actually done in real pipe music.
Do them anyways, they build important finger strength & character.

Mwa-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa!

Scale in 2's

      gb ac bd ce df eG fA A
      Af Ge fd ec db ca bg a

    Timing permutations:
      1/8 - 1/8; 1/4 - 1/8; 1/8 - 1/4; dot-cut; cut-dot
      ie, even notes, soft dots & cuts, hard dots & cuts
      All tempos & tune types from air to reel/jig.

    Single Gracenote Finger-strengthening Permutations
      Proceed as far up as possible using single gracenote before
            1st melody note of each pair.
      Variously: High G, D, E, thumb, and (no kidding) F gracenotes.
            Don't laugh, your crunluaths & double E's will thank you.

The Crossings - Contains every evil crossing known to Pyperdom.
Copyright 1979 David Daye.

      ac ad bc bd be bf bG bA ce cf cG cA de df dG dA eA fA GA A
      AG Af Ae Ad Ac Ab Gd Gc Gb fd fc fb ed ec eb db da cb ca a

    Same timing & tempo permutations as scale-in-2's. No gracenotes,
      please: you need to experience all the lovely crossing noises!

TortureLuaths
Copyright 1979 David Daye.

      Normal taorluath scale EXCEPT taorluaths end on *B* not low A.
      Do again ending taorluaths on low G, C and even D. Yes I know
      this doesn't happen in real music. Do them anyways. You will
      learn to yawn in the face of judges.

UltraLuaths
Copyright 1979 David Daye.
      Normal taorluath-to-low-A scale EXCEPT all taorluaths are made
      with the *B* finger instead of the *D* finger. You know why.
      Do these ending the taorluaths variously on low G, A, B, C & D.

Trouble - E's
Copyright 1979 David Daye.
      Dotted 1/8 (variously, each note of the scale), always followed
        by a 1/16 F into double E.

Birl Pearls
      Dotted 1/8 (variously, each note of the scale), always followed
        by a 1/16 low G into birl.

Oh, as you see I'm asking for credit for some of these things, with the
year I concocted them. If you know someone who produced any of them
earlier, let me know, I will most humbly bow to precedent!

I hope these gems bring you as much frustration as they've brought me
and my students over the years!
-- 
David Daye          http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/~bdaye/bagpipes.htm
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uilleann pipes      Pipe & reed modification diagrams, sound files of
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