My whole approach today skips the sheet music entirely — no reading, no sight-reading, just repetition with your full attention on your hands. I want you focused on the knuckles to the fingertips, not on whether you played six GDEs or eight; sight-reading and technique-building are different skills, and mixing them slows both down.
A birl from any note other than low A starts as one compound move, not two separate steps. Whatever note you're coming from, drop straight into low A while bringing the little finger down onto the chanter's touch point at the exact same instant — never land on low A first and then reach for the birl separately.
A crushed doubling almost never means your gracenotes are too small — it means they're too big. The fix for a doubling that isn't 'coming out' is smaller gracenotes with more separation between them, never bigger ones; big gracenotes eat up the very space that makes the doubling audible.
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Practice Chanter Workout Session — January 25, 2022
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