Are you frustrated because, no matter how "hard" you try to practice, you still struggle with performance anxiety, distraction, cumbling under the pressure, and/or stupid mistakes?  

I’ve been teaching and performing bagpipes around the world for well over 2 decades now. I’ve taught countless individual players, been a full-time instructor of junior bands, pipe-majored a grade 1 band that qualified for the world-championship final, taught workshops for dozens of intermediate bands - And, you know, one of the biggest obstacle to pipers is undoubtedly - you guessed it - Crumbling Under the Pressure!  

In the modern age, information is much easier to come by than ever before. People know how to prepare good music on the bagpipes. It’s not the knowledge or even the work ethic that’s holding people back - it’s the inability to translate that into a good performance that’s taking pipers out by the knees.

My Moist Painful Performance FAILURE Story:  

When I was in my late teens, I made a mistake at the Worlds playing with the SFU Pipe Band. A bad mistake. There’s a lot of evidence we would have WON the World Championships that year if it wasn’t for my mistake.  

The mistake was in the last bar of the final tune. For a split second - perhaps because I was “glad” the set was over - I lost focus, got distracted, and before I knew it I had made a big “blooter.” This had never happened to me before. I had played the set hundreds and hundreds of times. I had played at the worlds several years before this with no mistakes. What happened? I was heart-broken. I let the team down. To be honest, this poorly worded paragraph is extra-poorly-worded because it’s so painful to revisit this!  

For the next year I lived in fear any time the band would perform. And it showed. The first contest of the following year, I got cut from a contest early in the season because I was too far into my own head to perform up to standard.  

Luckily, I had great teachers and team-mates within the SFU band to gradually pull myself out of my performance rut. I remember Alan Bevan teaching me about visualization tricks. Andrew Bonar had a humorous “devil may care” approach to mentally preparing for performances.  

Over time, I learned the ins and out of becoming a solid performer. I learned how to mentally prepare ahead of time for important events, and I also learned what to do in the moment to make sure my preparations paid off. Since that mistake in my teens, I have not made any major mistakes in key competitions (don’t worry, I’m knocking on wood as I write this). 

[In the picture: This is my brother Alex and I at the 2004 Worlds. I am on the right. If I'm remembering correctly it's right after my big mistake.]

Fast Forward to This Last Summer: Enter Dr. Fiona  

So, fast forwarding to this last summer, my business partner Carl introduced me to a person named Dr. Fiona McConnochie - a specialist in… BAGPIPE performance psychology? Amazing! He showed me some of her work and I immediately recognized what I was seeing - it was a simple, fun, organized distillation of many of the techniques I had painstakingly developed over many years to battle performance anxiety and mistakes.  

We have to make this a course! I screamed (ok, fine, I just typed it in all-caps).  

And that’s exactly what we did.  

Without much effort at all, Dr. Fiona has distilled all of the key concepts of high-achieving performances into an easy-to-follow video course. Rich with video, and interactive (informal) quizzes and writing exercises, this course is designed to teach you the art of properly preparing for a performance to maximize the probability of a good result, with no meltdowns, distractions, anxiety, silly mistakes, etc, etc. 

In the course, Dr. McConnochie discusses:  

• Attentional Control and “Focus Ability” - how to decide and train what we focus on during performances. 
• Instructional Key Words that we can use to keep ourselves dialed in during performances.
• How to establish “Standard Cues” that we can use whenever we feel nervous, or that things might be spiraling out of control during a performance.
• “Positive Key Words” that we develop inside our own minds to help things stay positive when the going gets tough. 
• What to do on the actual day of a performance.  

This “Video Success Plan”, an online video-course that is easily accessed on any device, will set you up for definitively more confident, successful performances where you can achieve your personal best when it counts. Generally, it’s a $47 course that we offer on the Dojo U website. But today only, as a follow up to the free PDF guide, we’re going to sell it to you for $7.  

If you’re thinking “$7 is cheap… what’s the catch?” then here are three reasons that should put your mind at ease:  

• $7 puts this information within the reach of everyone…from the hobbyist to the “serious” piper, from the street band to the high-level competitive band.  
• It weeds out the freebie-seekers. We only want serious bagpipers who take action, and in our experience charging anything…even if it’s just $1…gets rid of 99% of the folks who really aren’t that serious.  
• We tested it, and $7 turned the most profit in the long run. (Hey, we’re in business here so why not tell it like it is?)  

We also believe that once you experience this Video Success Plan, you’ll want more and maybe…just maybe…you’ll come back, buy more and possibly even upgrade to a Dojo U Premium Membership where you get access to our complete Success Plan Library.  

But that’s it…  

No fine print…no “hidden trials”…no shenanigans. Just the information you need and the results you want.  

The only real catch is the that this offer is scarce - once you close this webpage, you won’t find this course for $7 again! So, be sure to act now while you still can! If you’re ready to dive in, just click the add-to-cart button below!!!