Relax, focus on form, slow down — never just force it. Whenever a movement isn't cooperating, the answer is never to push harder or add strength; it's to relax the hand, refine the form, slow the passage down, and try again.
A gracenote's job is to separate two notes cleanly, not to be its own event. Understanding that a doubling's gracenotes exist purely to create a clean gap between repeated notes — not as ornaments in their own right — clears up a lot of confusion about how they should sound and feel.
Test a birl by slowing it all the way down. If you can't execute a movement cleanly at a very slow tempo, that's the sign you need to isolate and drill it rather than just hoping it will come together at speed.
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Practice Chanter Workout Session — May 4, 2021
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11:39gracenotes are in figure this doing What really🔒
18:39correctly birl Reading the symbol🔒
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26:49birls drill seven-style The rubber-band for🔒
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