Purchased a practice chanter - what shall I do next?

[KD Burke]

Learning piping is...difficult. Learning piping on your own is extremely so. I won't say impossible, but close.

Learning to play the embellishments properly requires feedback from someone knowledgeable, who can hear and see what you at doing wrong and correct you before you learn a bad habit.

[pbutts]

The problem is that learning to play the pipes involves many different parts of your body working together. It's good to have an expert keeping an eye on your development while you are learning the individual movements. It's not just a difficult instrument, as if someone who was expert at other musical instruments could manage it, it's everything else that goes into coaxing music out of a strange collection of parts and experience is the only teacher.