Highland Bagpipe Strike-Up Tutorial - new version available ↓↓ see link in description ↓↓
Channel: Jenna Bagpipes
Date: 02/10/2011

*UPDATE* watch the higher quality version with a drummer here: https://youtu.be/G_jv8ddL8zk

I'm a bagpipe instructor in Montréal (I've been teaching since 2005, privately and with the Montreal Piping & Drumming School), and I made this video when I realised my students had no examples for practicing the standard band strike-up (or attack) slowly.  Never play faster than you comfortably can.  I recommend practicing along to the video with headphones, pausing/repeating as needed.
Edit- the intro E before any tune should be started by blowing, not squeezing.  In the video I sometimes start the E with the arm, because it was too short to get a clean cut-off otherwise.