{"id":65,"date":"2022-08-18T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-pipe-band\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:47:43","slug":"student-lesson-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/pipe-band\/student-lesson-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Lesson Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lesson Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As a beginner on the bagpipe or highland drums you start your experience with 1\/2 hour weekly lessons. You start on the practice chanter or drum pad. Your lesson time is arranged for a time that works for you and the instructor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you get on the pipes or drums and have a few tunes memorized you would be ready to join the pipe band!&nbsp; At that point you would come to rehearsal at 6:30 on Wednesday evenings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To sign up or ask questions email Mike at breidenbach@macalester.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This semester the course number for lessons&nbsp; is MUSI 94 AB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Registration for ensembles is taken care of by the directors of the ensembles during the first week of classes. Be aware there is some lag time between when students turn in registration information to the director and when the class appears on records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more info contact <a href=\"breidenbach@macalester.edu\">breidenbach@macalester.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"video-embed block-container\" >\n\t    <div class=\"video-embed__container\">\n    \t<div class=\"embed-container\">\n    \t    \t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Macalester College Pipe Band Spring Concert 2023\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-QhnP0IwViA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \n    \t<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 credit per semester,&nbsp;but only after two consecutive semesters of enrollment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Study abroad does not count as an interruption.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Credits for ensembles do not count towards the College\u2019s 18-credit limit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensemble credits count towards the Fine Arts requirement, but only if the student has registered for four consecutive semesters of the same ensemble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson Information As a beginner on the bagpipe or highland drums you start your experience with 1\/2 hour weekly lessons. You start on the practice chanter or drum pad. Your lesson time is arranged for a time that works for you and the instructor. Once you get on the pipes or drums and have a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/pipe-band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/pipe-band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/pipe-band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/pipe-band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/pipe-band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/pipe-band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/pipe-band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/pipe-band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}