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🎬 Class ReplayIntermediateFree Preview📅 Posted May 18, 2021· 1h 3m

Fix Your Hardest Thing

⚡ The Short Version

Every doubling really has just two gracenotes, not three. The note in the middle is the theme note, not a bigger gracenote — it needs to be long enough to separate the two gracenotes, or the whole doubling collapses into a crushed little blip.
In a strathspey, that “doubling” on a cut note is actually a GDE, not a true doubling. It gets played short-short-long, and that timing pattern stays the same even when the notes underneath it change from tune to tune.
Interval speed training beats the slow-and-steady approach for breaking a speed plateau. Playing a bar, pausing a bar, and repeating lets you test faster playing almost right away instead of waiting months before you dare raise the tempo.
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Fix Your Hardest Thing
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04:03rhythm confidence, strathspey Today's tuning and list:🔒
08:38three gracenotes, the Breaking two down not E doubling:🔒
12:57a is what gives note The its doubling rhythm theme🔒
15:31doublings Finding open spot crushed the sweet between and🔒
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21:29GDE that's really strathspey The doubling a🔒
29:12Consistent second down doublings gracenote come to the🔒
31:14doublings Why ones are bottom-hand harder top-hand than🔒
39:59inconsistent by Diagnosing ear cut dot an🔒
50:00a Interval tempo your training: faster way to speed pause🔒
56:57your tuning: Drone knowing when in are pipes locked🔒

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