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Note: Today's post is the second in our program for new pipers. The Learn the Pipes program is a series of lessons that will guide you from your first day with your chanter through the basic fingering and musical elements of bagpipe music — all the way to your first tune (or two) on the practice chanter. You can view all of videos in the series here: Learn the Pipes. Not a beginner? You can use these lessons to review your fundamentals, or tell a friend! Today's video gives a clearly detailed step-by-step video lesson on how to play grace notes -- the most universal of all bagpipe embellishments. Learn the secret to perfect timing, clean execution, and consistency. Watch, listen and play along with the video. Learn the function of grace notes in bagpipe music. Learn the proper fingering of the four most commonly used grace notes, and the GDE grace note combination. Discover ...