Bagpipe Lessons: The B Tap / Slur / Strike - Perfecting one of the more difficult embellishments!
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In this video, Matt Willis Bagpiper shows his technique for perfecting the B slur, tap, strike (where you have to quickly tap to low G). This is a tough embellishment for many folks and these tips can help you perfect this motion!
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The definition of slur: a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato. [music.]. The definition of legato: without breaks between notes; smooth and connected [music]
Thanks for this Matt.I sorted my 'unreliable' B strike and it now has a 95% success rate as opposed to the 50% I was getting before. AND it took about ten minutes! 100% coming up.
Great to hear! This was one of my worst movements when I started and had to find a way to fix it...
Guess I'll have to start showing up to band practice with these fixed now ;) Thanks for the sharing!
Very helpful. I can now tap/slur and strike.
Glad it helped!
When my uncle drinks, he slurs and strikes
Thanks for the tips on this. I've been showing some of my students recently how to accomplish this " strike ", as I call it. To me , it's a strike because you need to approach the low G as a strike motion.
You're welcome! I also think strike is the best term, but that more often refers to the full embellishment (g-gracenote to B, low G tap to B). I'd prefer hose embellishment be called striking doublings or similar, but alas, we seem stuck with the nomenclature for our embellishments.
I’ve always struggled with the B Tap. Cheers for the PDF
Glad you found it useful!
Ha ! I didn't realize that I was signed in as my daughter ( Jessica ). Anyhow, thanks for the tips on this. I always like to see different techniques on executing some of these movements.
I've done the same thing several times, responding to comments (as me) under one of my kids' accounts. Ooops!
The B-strike is my Achilles' heel. I've struggled with this ever since I started out 4.5 years ago... Thanks for this!!!! Will try this out tomorrow! Sharing!!!
Excellent! Let us all here know if this works for you. Cheers!
@@MattWillisBagpiper One of the pipers on a Facebook group a while back suggested I add a wrist motion (a kind a flick) to the B strikes/grips, etc. I notice some pipers do move their wrist a little in this context. What do you think? Cheers
I actually do tend to play with a bit of the wrist motion on my B strikes/taps/slurs, but decided to not include it here. I feel the first step for pipers is to get the finger motion down without "assistance". Also, when on a bellows-driven bagpipe, it can be difficult to do that radial motion in the wrist (depending on the bellows)...
Matt, I'm enjoying the vids, I'm transitioning to the "goose" today....
Hi Matt, I’m from Scotland, I’m Pipe Sergeant of a Band. I’ve only ever heard old pipers refer to this movement as a ‘slur’. Anybody below the age of 70 would call it a strike.
And around these parts, the term strike seems to mean the embellishment (with G gracenote to a note, then a tap/strike to the same note) and not just the tapping/closing motion. I'd personally like to call that embellishment a closed doubling or striking doubling.
I was hoping for a video on the embellishment in pumpkins fancy, going from c to d, we call that a slur.
It's on the list of future videos. Perhaps later this fall!
@@MattWillisBagpiper Nice one thanks. Reddit says to call it a "slide" so maybe "slur" is my error.
Gosh you mean I am not the only one that has problems with this??? "LOL"
Thanks
Please give this a try and let us all here know how it works!
Great Advice
I'd add
Do exactly the same exercise on the PIPES
How many grace notes are great on the PC
and hopeless on the pipes?
Indeed! I had hoped to also show this on the pipes, but alas, wasn’t in the cards for this video. Cheers!
I see high road to gairloch in your movement... or just the opposite/backwards... am I totally wrong lol
Not sure I'm following what you mean...
In Scotland, shouldn't it be called a "slurrrr!"?
I always thought a “G Slur” was a low G to an A!
Perhaps that can be called a slur too...
@@MattWillisBagpiper I looked it up and O can’t find any source to back me up. I learned from Kevin Blandford back in the early 2000’s and everyone else I heard it from learned from him too so it must be something he said.