A lesson is only as good as the plan you bring into it, especially online. My advice is to walk in already knowing your top three trouble spots and the single most important thing to spend the time on — a blank slate wastes minutes both of you need.
Make sure your teacher is looking at your exact copy of the sheet music, coffee stains and all. I've lost real lesson time to arguments about a gracenote that turned out to be an actual error in a student's specific copy, not a mistake in their playing — get your teacher the same page you're looking at.
Not being able to physically tune a student's drones over video is a limitation, but it's also the reason so many pipers finally learned to tune their own pipes during the pandemic. My advice is to lean into that gap rather than fight it — use a Bagpipe Gauge and a tuner so you can describe what's happening in objective numbers, since I can't reach through the screen to fix it for you.
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