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A common question for pipers concerns the size of grace notes. Should your grace notes be as small as possible? As big as possible? How big should they be? You might have been told by someone "really lift your fingers off the chanter!" or quite the opposite "keep your fingers as close as possible to the chanter!" Which is it? If you ask around, you might find some conflicting information on this topic. But if you watch and listen to top players, you'll see they all play their grace notes the same way. Today's video:  Secrets of Top Players: Grace notes Now go back and try some of your exercises with a renewed focus on the size and consistency of your grace notes. Power GDEs Power Tachums Power Doublings Power Strathspey Triplets Or just browse through our all of the exercises here on the BagpipeLessons.com Studio. Questions? Comments? Let's continue the discussion below!