Great bagpipe songs

Gotta tell you I love the bagpipes. I suspect thats quite common for us foreigners :icon_mrgreen:

Anyway please give me some tips on great bagpipes songs. I listen to must about anything really but my favorite on is Its a long way to the top by AC/DC. Its amazing in how many ways you can use it really.

 

Red Hot Chilli Pipers are pretty cool, they do an awesome cover of smoke on the water :icon_mrgreen:

 

+1 the recommendation I was going to make

 

ross on friends playing celebration........utter class

 

Highland Cathedral cannot fail to stir emotions within you.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrG4yJ_fMUc[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oieFS785QPk[/YOUTUBE]

 

Royal Scots Dragoon Guards have some very nice CD's Highland Cathedral album is probably the best.

 

clearly has to be this guy

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SEpB-h_srA[/YOUTUBE]

 

A great tune.

 

Also prefers what your looking for, if your looking for more fun stuff, your better sticking with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers etc. But if your looking for proper pipe band stuff I would suggest House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead, Simon Fraser University and also Field Marshall Montgomery

 

World Pipe Band Champions 2010 from Dublin.

The St Lawrence O'Toole Pipe Band.

St.Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band - History

 

Red Hot chili pipers are awesome Thanks

 

The Clan Wallace.

* got a bass drum made out of a whisky barrel!! How cool is that? Fine Dance tune.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMqRhZDSwtg[/YOUTUBE]

 

Boom boom boom

 

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-1B3FA3U50[/YOUTUBE]

Loud Pipes (Save Lives)

 

My mate Nick plays guitar for the Chillis and hes a massive Celtic fan, keep an eye out!

 

It is pretty much laughed at ....but Mull Of Kintyre.I was at Paul McCartney concert 1991 in the SEC,and during the song,one by one,a whole pipe band came on the stage for that song to play their solo live.....i still get tears filling just writing this.Unreal.

 

SCOTTISH JIMI HENDRIX: except he's Canadian.

Truly * awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4CRwrR_lBE[/YOUTUBE]

 

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[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n9hbYwZZqk[/YOUTUBE]

Bravo Ya * BRA - * - VO!!

 

Singing Bagpipe

Most pipers get frazzled when the uneducated have the audacity to refer to a piece of bagpipe music as a "song." "They have no words, so they are not songs. They are tunes," I've heard many a piper correct. Be that as it may, it is somehow my joke to call tunes songs just to see what reaction I get. And the deeper point is that some of them are songs.
I have heard the uninspired attempts of so many pipers - including myself - who don't realize they are playing songs. Many of these works do have words, and even if they don't, they should be sung by those wanting to play them with any conviction. My instructor once told me over and over during a lesson... "Sing it... no, again. Sing it like it's a song... No! again... Again! Now PLAY the SONG."
All pipers who learn piobaireachd have to sing if they are to understand what they are playing. The bagpipe has its own language called cantaireachd - "that which is sung" - a musical language used to teach pipe music before there was staff notation. Singing internalizes the music and it comes out in the playing. The best pipers sing the song and then play it. And as if that weren't enough, the melody pipe is called a chanter - "the one that sings."
Even without its lyrics, "The Skye Boat Song" is still a song, as is "Amazing Grace." Even modern composers have written works with names such as "Song for the Smallpipe." This wonderfully melodic little piece has no lyrics, but it sings as if it could be nothing but a song. It's simple and somehow moving, the way the chanter "sings" it. And other pipe "songs" like "Shoshanna's Lullaby" and "The Dark Island" give the highland bagpipe a voice. And surely this "voice" is what prompted the naming of the melody pipe "chanter" back in the times when voice and language were considered an integral part of music, and isntruments were used to evoke and imitate the human voice.
For many pipers these songs are something more real and soulful than a nifty party tune, but even many "tunes" have driving melodic lines which demand expression, demand to be sung. In the piping idiom there are definitely tunes, fun little works that make for a room full of tapping toes, but there are also songs, the likes of which one cannot hear sung anywhere else.
My Tune Collection

One of my pursuits in piping is making musically satisfying arrangements of tunes as well as writing some "songs" of my own. My current "collection" consists of several arrangements and a couple of original tunes some of which I hope to publish in a unique format which will be educational and appealing.
Tune Arrangements

• Jesus Loves the Little Children
• Johnny Five's Jig (jig setting of Number Five's theme from Short Circuit)>
• Jesu, Joy of man's Desiring (Martin Luther)
• Lamb of * (Twila Paris)
• O, Come, O, Come, Emmanuel!

Original Tunes

• Victory at Big Boy Bluff (4/4 march)
• P/M M. Beall (2/4 march)

My Repertoire

Listed below are the tunes I play on a regular basis. Any of these can be worked up for most any event.
Marches

• Scotland the Brave
• The Rowan Tree
• Murdo's Wedding
• Wings
• Wha' Saw the 42nd
• 1976 Police Tattoo
• Flett from Flotta
• Lord Lovat's Lament
• The Battle of Waterloo
• Cockney Jocks
• The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie
• Johnnie Scobie
• Will Ye no Come Back Again?
• Minstrel Boy
• The Wearin' o' the Green
• The Crusaders' March
• The Crags of Tumbledown Mountain
• MacRae Meadow
• Keep You Thunder in a Jar
• Let Erin Remember
• High Road to Gairloch
• The Brown Haired Maiden
• Mairie's Wedding
• Corriechollie's Welcome
• Teribus
• Highland Laddie
• Prince Charles's Welcome to Lochaber
• Captian Norman Orr-Ewing
• The Siege of Delhi
• Arthur Bignold of Lochrosque
• The 93rd at Moddor River
• The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar

Retreats

• Green Hills of Tyrol
• When the Battle's O'er
• Loch Maree
• The Dream Valley of Glendaruel
• Castle Dangerous
• Balmoral