Greater Ipswich College of Piping and Drumming in Ipswich, Queensland | School

Greater Ipswich College of Piping and Drumming

Locality: Ipswich, Queensland

Phone: +61 410 407 550

Address: Ipswich Thistle Pipe Band Hall 4305 Ipswich, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.ipswichpipeband.com/gicopad

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25.01.2022 This year #COIPB introduced monthly birthday celebrations to add fun and colour into our weekly rehearsals. This month we enjoyed a #unicorncake for our October birthdays. #pipebands #pipesdrums #ipswich #birthdays #festive #celebrate #fun #cake #yummmm #itwaspinkinside

22.01.2022 The City of Ipswich Pipe Band honour our ANZACs with this stunning rendition of Amazing Grace, featuring the ANZAC Ode, piano, singing and of course the Great H...ighland Bagpipes. As you stand to join us across Australia and the world, play our music to bring the music of the ANZAC services of past to your street. Stand united for our ANZACs - Lest We Forget. Save the link to play at your driveway service as you #lightupthedawn: https://youtu.be/FlODCIW6IQo 9 News 9 News Queensland 7NEWS Brisbane 10 News First Queensland ABC News Courier Mail QT - The Queensland Times Discover Ipswich Ipswich City Council Ipswich Festivals Ipswich RSL Sub Branch Inc Jennifer Howard MP Jim Madden MP - Ipswich West Shayne Neumann MP Mayor Teresa Harding - Ipswich City Council Scott Morrison (ScoMo) Annastacia Palaszczuk MP Pipe Bands Queensland DiscoverBrisbane Marnie Doyle: Ipswich City Council Division 3 Cr Andrew Fechner

22.01.2022 #christmas2020 #piping #drumming #lovepipebands

22.01.2022 An interesting article on swing and lift by the The Bagpipe Academy

21.01.2022 Final preparations for tomorrow’s first outing for the City of Ipswich Pipe Band in many months. Join us tomorrow for the PBQ 2020 play out day. #pipebands #spring #bagpipesanddrums

19.01.2022 SIGN UP TODAY - for our Term 3 intake. Private or Group lessons in bagpipes and drums at affordable prices right here in Ipswich. With a dedicated kids band we develop young musicians in a fun family environment. Contact us at [email protected]

18.01.2022 Lots of practice and healthy dose of passion for music. Oh, and a metronome always helps

15.01.2022 Understanding timing, including note values and time signatures is so important to properly developing piping and drumming skills

11.01.2022 Congrats to our college drumming tutor Will Schultz on his new role at the Queensland Police Pipes & Drums

11.01.2022 What a fortnight for our organisation! Over the last two weeks we competed at the Brisbane Boys College and MacLean Highland Gatherings. Notably, our Greater ...Ipswich College of Piping and Drumming achieved 3rd prize both weekends. What an achievement for their first outings. The Grade 4B band performed well at BBC. The Grade 4A band achieved 3rd each weekend and in Grade 3 as well. We had a number of musicians playing their first time in competition and also some new faces in the ranks. We are very proud of all our members for their efforts over the last two weeks. See you all at our own 'The Gathering' where we hope to continue our achievements.

10.01.2022 Our wee piper Phoenix loves his time in the kitchen! See Chef Phoenix making a strawberry milkshake in this weeks Cooking for fun with Phoenix.

10.01.2022 The Average Piper... Understanding Staff Notation #2 https://www.thebagpipeplace.com/blog/

09.01.2022 Congrats to Inveraray & District Pipe Band. For all our young learners, have a listen and be inspired! #futureworldchampions

08.01.2022 The City of Ipswich Pipe Band is pleased to announce the election of Mr Robbie Graham as president at a special general meeting held yesterday following the rec...ent resignation of Mr Rod Smith as president and pipe sergeant. A native of Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, Robbie is the territory manager for an international agricultural spray company and brings with him to the role a great love for piping and drumming, a wealth of commercial and business experience, and outstanding leadership. With both his wife and children playing members of the band, Robbie has been a great supporter of the band and its entities including the Greater Ipswich College of Piping and Drumming and The Gathering. The management committee look forward to Robbie’s stewardship and working with Pipe Major Nick Tomkins to grow and promote the organisation as an enjoyable and successful pipe band. The band thanks Rod Smith for many years of service and his ongoing association with the Band as College tutor. We wish him well for his future endeavours.

08.01.2022 Introducing the @ipswichpipeband midsection roster for 2021: Jocelyn Graham, Heather Breese, Annette Slape, Christine McRoberts, Mandy Pateman, Kirsty Somervill...e, and Callum MacSween. We also have young Finn Armstrong in the wings as part of the Greater Ipswich College of Piping and Drumming. The team is super excited about the season ahead and wondering: what colour #tyfry #midsection #tenordrumming #welovepipebands #drumming #pipebands #flourishing See more

07.01.2022 A huge congrats to some of our students who entered the World Online Piping and Drumming Championships. Some great results from Euan and Jules in Grade 5 Piping and Abbie in Grade 5 Drumming. Well done also to tutors David and Nick for some strong placings. https://bagpipelessons.com/competition/results/

07.01.2022 Aloha!! In 30-degree heat, members, families and friends of the City of Ipswich Pipe Band cooled off in their Hawaiian shirts and grass skirts playing lawn... bowls to celebrate Christmas 2020. We congratulate our award recipients, and thank our friends and supporters for keeping together during a very challenging year. Under Pipe Major Nick Tomkins, the band has big plans in 2021 and we look forward to growing the band, the Greater Ipswich College of Piping and Drumming and of course The Gathering in May 2021. We wish our fellow pipers & drummers, members, friends & supporters around the world a safe and enjoyable Christmas. #tropical #pineapple #Christmas #pipesanddrums #summer See more

06.01.2022 Exciting Opportunity! The City of Ipswich Pipe Band and Greater Ipswich College of Piping and Drumming has a vacancy for a committed Lead Drumming Tutor. This opportunity will allow you to:... - develop leadership & business skills - teach a bunch of talented young drummers - assist with developing multiple bands - travel This is a paid position. Please see the attached Position Description for further detail.

06.01.2022 "Pipe Band isn’t just another hobby, it’s a lifestyle ... It’s the family that you build, and the leadership and teamwork skills that you develop which help kids develop in their later life." Lessons spots open for learner pipers and drummers. Check out this article in the QT - The Queensland Times paper tomorrow or online now.... https://www.qt.com.au/n/learn-to-play-the-bagpipes/3935217/

05.01.2022 This winter why not rug up in a new kilt, made right here in Ipswich! Doug, Karen and Geoff from St Kilda Retail are fantastic supporters of our college.

05.01.2022 WILD EYED WONDER & THE CITY OF IPSWICH PIPE BAND ... We have been itching to bring you this amazing collaboration from Wild Eyed Wonder and the City of Ipswich ...Pipe Band, in celebration of The Gathering. You might remember Dee from our first Live Streamed! at the Baptist last weekend. Check out their rendition of Tom Walker's "Leave a Light On". We hope it brings the spirit of The Gathering into your home, despite the event being cancelled due to Covid-19. Big thanks to Wild Eyed Wonder and the City of Ipswich Pipe band for putting this together.

04.01.2022 An early start to listen in to the BagpipeLessons.com World Online Piping and Drumming Championships, where some of our members competed. The results were: Jule...s Crane (Piper): Gr 5 2/4 March - 1st, Gr 5 6/8 March - 3rd, Gr 5 Jig - 2nd, Gr 5 Piobaireachd - 5th, Alasdair Gillies 12 and Under - 1st, Gr 5 Overall - 2nd, Overall Champion in All Categories/Grades - 3rd! Euan Graham (Piper): Gr 4 Jig - 4th, Alasdair Gillies 12 and Under - 4th Abbie Graham (Snare): Gr 4 6/8 March - 4th, Gr 4 Jig - 5th, Gr 4 Overall - 6th David Spotswood (Snare Tutor): Gr 2 MSR - 6th, Gr 2 Hornpipe/Jig - 3rd, Gr 2 Overall - 5th. Tom McGirr (Great friend of the band and Piper): Gr 1 MSR - 2nd City of Ipswich Pipe Band ....... OVERALL CHAMPION BAND ...... 3RD PLACE!! (Closely behind Brisbane Boys College in 2nd - congrats guys!). Pipe Major Nick Tomkins commented: "I am extremely proud not only of the results of these players and their contribution to our band, but also of their effort and desire to improve. Playing in an online competition is difficult and I really commend them all for putting themselves out there to compete in a World Championship competition. It is also so pleasing to see our Greater Ipswich College of Piping and Drumming student's reap the rewards of their efforts. They are fantastic representatives of the City of Ipswich Pipe Band, as well as the Queensland and Australian pipe band communities."

04.01.2022 The GMMPB - Governor Macquarie Memorial Pipe Band is hosting the 2020 Shepherd Challenge for Young Global Pipe Band of the Year. We hope to see lots of young Aussie pipers enter! Best of luck!

03.01.2022 A good habit to embrace, even for students and their lesson time.

03.01.2022 We find that it’s so important to teach understanding, to help the student drive their own growth and development. One key part of this in our piping program is teaching students to tune their own drones from very early on - helping to develop their ability to understand sound and tone.

02.01.2022 Our first college student, Euan Graham, performed with such poise and humility on Sunday at the Vietnam Veteran's Service at Ipswich RSL Sub Branch. It is indeed a remarkable achievement for such a young man. We are so very proud of you Euan. Euan is pictured with Keith Payne VC & AM, guest of honour and speaker at the service. The following link is courtesy Ipswich Grammar School.... https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2705866312779673&id=181897281843268

02.01.2022 Over the weekend our kids competed in their first ever Queensland Pipe Band Championship with a great performance in Novice Juvenile grade. What was so special was to see them all dressed in kilts!! We want to send a special thank you to all those who generously donated to our Kids in Kilt go fund me (https://www.gofundme.com/kids-in-kilts). You support helped quickly get our kids looking amazing. Thanks also to Doug and Karen at St Kilda Retail Australia for getting the kilts turned around so quickly and to the highest quality! We have taken the second step in our long journey on the road to success. We have many more kids coming through the learner ranks and are keen to hear from more kids interested to learn. Our learn to pipe and drum sessions at The Gathering were a huge success. Be sure to contact us for more info.

01.01.2022 Video 1 in our series of educational piping and drumming videos. This video is on hemping of bagpipes, which is hopefully timely as people have a chance to addr...ess instrument maintenance over the holiday period. These videos are intended primarily for our pipers and drummers at the City of Ipswich Pipe Band and the Greater Ipswich College of Piping and Drumming, however by publishing them to YouTube and Facebook we hope that others can make use of them. We are all about learning and discussion, so please feel free to comment with questions, or comments and alternative opinions. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get notified of new videos. #education #bagpipes #drums #pipeband #ipswich

01.01.2022 This methodology is what we use with our pipers - take it back to its simplest form and get it right, then build it up!