00:00In this video I'm going to be showing you how to play the bamboo panpipes.
00:04So these ones are known as the Siku panpipes and they are handcrafted in Peru. They have 13
00:11notes and each one has an assorted woven band. So the first thing we want to focus on is our
00:16blowing position because when I first started playing the panpipes I blew directly over the
00:23pipe and so if you're playing it like this then I want to show you the correct way of doing it.
00:29It's more like this sort of positioning. You want to be quite close to the pipe. You could even
00:34actually rest your bottom lip on the pipe a little bit but you don't want to just blow. You don't want
00:40to go like this. What we want to do is kind of have our lip overhang slightly and that just directs the
00:50airflow into the pipe. Each pipe has a completely different sound and it's because of the length
00:57of each pipe so it produces a different note.
01:08I would actually recommend just practicing that as much as you can especially considering that
01:14there is different notes and at first as a beginner it's very difficult to play one note and then switch
01:20to the next one whilst keeping a consistent clear sound. Sometimes if you're not blowing correctly
01:26you might get a whistle sound or you might just get an air blowing sound.
01:32And it all comes down to your lips, how you position your lips and the blowing technique.
01:37So now that we've established those two things we're ready to look at the notes.
01:41So typically the pan pipes follow the diatonic scale of C major. This note here is C and it goes D, E, F,
01:49G, A, B and then C again and it repeats. But because they are handmade and each pan pipe slightly vary
01:56in size even if it's centimeters, millimeters, this can affect the note. And so some notes may be sharps and
02:03some maybe regular notes. Now that we know the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, we can then use
02:12those notes as our music theory and we can play our first song. Before we go and do that I just want
02:18to show you quickly the notes vary depending on the pan pipes that you have. So if your pan pipes aren't
02:23like this one, it may be different for you. Our anteros pan pipes, this first note is a B and then
02:30this note is a C and it follows that same pattern but we start on the B. And then for our zampona
02:35pan pipes, this note here is the C. It doesn't go all the way along in order. It goes C, D, E, F, G, A,
02:44B, C and then so on. So it alternates between the rows. And actually I wouldn't recommend a zampona
02:51pan pipe if you are a beginner. It's more for advanced because there's a more complex technique
02:56that you have to learn when you're switching from this row to this row.
03:06So now we're ready to play our first song and I want to just quickly say that I am in the process
03:10of learning the pan pipes. I am by no means an expert but I am with you on this journey and we're
03:15going to learn together. This note here is a C, this one is a G and this one is an A. So with that we can
03:21play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
03:51And that's how you play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the bamboo pan pipes.
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04:10video on our pan pipes playlist. See you soon.
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