Entry 3: 3 weeks

Small progress with the bag and bellows; moving slowly up and down the 1st octave scale, steady quarters/crochets, and a stab at the first few notes of The Leitrim Fancy.

About this video series:
"Learn to Play the Pipes in Just 21 Years" is series documenting my experiences learning to play the Uilleann Pipes. I am not claiming any degree of competence ("yet", hopefully), and it is the opposite of a tutorial series - I make plenty of mistakes that I know about, and quite likely many that I don't. Much is made of the difficulty of learning to play this instrument in online communities, and it is my hope that these videos will serve as at least one non-anecdotal data point to demonstrate the actual difficulty. Years from now, I hope this series will be a demonstration of the merits of perseverance, but even in the worst case, I hope to have provided a cautionary tale. Along the way, I hope to offer some solace and camaraderie to fellow learners, and I would be grateful for any feedback from experienced pipers.

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