Dan Nevans kickstarted The National Piping Centre’s February Piping Challenge yesterday at 6pm with a 25 minute livestream on the topic of Getting your pipes going. Dan presentation was very entertaining, often with an interesting turn of phrase, and his main point in all the advice he shared was the […]
The National Piping Centre is asking pipers to take part in the February Piping Challenge in preparation for the 2023 piping season. The month-long Challenge will encourage players of all levels to get the pipes out the box, and tonight Dan Nevans will focus on making your pipes sound great […]
Jack Lee is staying at The National Piping Centre this week in preparation for the Glenfiddich Piping Championship on Saturday coming, October 29. So with Jack already in the building, Dan Nevans took the chance to put him in The Piping Show hot seat for an interview. Dan asked Jack […]
The National Piping Centre launched a YouTube channel earlier this year and for the past month has been very busy recording and editing The Piping Show and adding a new episode every week. There are currently five episodes online and the format is fast-paced, informative and entertaining. The episodes so […]
Piobaireachd is for Everyone, first published by Dan Nevans in the summer of 2021, will be available as an audiobook from May 1, 2022 from dnpiping.com. The audiobook is over four hours long and comes in two parts. Read by the author, this recording also features excerpts of piobaireachd being performed on […]
The National Piping Centre announce the teachers for the Spring Adult Gathering! Join them for one-to-one lessons, workshops, masterclasses, group lessons and more from a world class teaching line up of – Wilson Brown, Connor Sinclair, Ailis Sutherland, Dr Andrew Bova, Dan Nevans and Danny Hutcheson. There are two timezones, […]
On day 22 of the February Piping Challenge Dan Nevans spoke about the myelination process that goes on in your brain while practicing deliberately. Dan demonstrated a slow deliberate technique to practice doublings going up and down the scale on the chanter. He suggests this consistency is what is needed […]
Last summer we posted a story about the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on June 2, 2022, and plan for pipers to mark the occasion by playing a tune specially written by Stuart Liddell. An eagle-eyed reader recently spotted that Dan Nevans‘ recording of Diu Regnare did not match the music written […]
Dan Nevans shared a wealth of information on day 15 of the February Piping Challenge. Dan’s 25 minute presentation was on the topic of Steady Blowing. He also detailed how to adjust drone reeds to, “only take enough air to sound consistently”, and how to tune your drones to allow […]
On day 10 of the February Piping Challenge Finlay MacDonald, Director of Piping at TNPC, discussed the technique of playing strikes, and explained how strikes are one of the three fundamentals when initially learning to play. Finlay’s video can be viewed again here on The National Piping Centre’s Facebook page. Dan […]
