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Today's focus: perfect doublings.  It is an important topic, and an area where greater control and consistency will help you bring our the music your tunes. Today's goal is to work on making your doublings more powerful, more consistently executed and precisely on the beat. If you haven't seen it before, print out today's featured exercise: Power Doublings. The perfect doubling starts with a perfect high G grace note — very short and quick. The goal is a crisp sound, played right on the beat. Grace notes are small, short notes -- never big. If you've ever been told to play big, open grace notes or "really lift your fingers off the chanter" — think again. Small grace notes sound clear and strong. Big grace notes sound sloppy and floppy. (Visit this clip to watch and listen to the difference between big and small grace notes.) The perfect doubling has two grace notes, each of ...