I bring in six-time Clasp winner Callum Beaumont, an old bandmate from Simon Fraser University, to walk through his month-by-month preparation plan for competition and performance. He breaks a month of preparation into weekly phases, starting fifty-fifty on chanter and pipes and building toward all-pipes practice in the final two weeks.
Callum's single biggest habit is recording every practice, deleting the bad ones, and only ever listening back after a break, never right away. He changed his own approach from cataloguing everything wrong to cataloguing everything good, because the negative list alone nearly made him quit recording altogether.
He practices at three distinct speeds — very slow, medium, and full pace — specifically to build control and stop his technique from tightening up under competition adrenaline. And in the off season, he takes a full month completely off the pipes before turning to learning next year's tunes as early as possible.
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Special Guest Callum Beaumont on Preparing for Competition and Performance
one: fifty-fifty chanter and the basics, Week pipes🔒
library building and a every practice Recording🔒
Week pipes the two: onto shifting weight🔒
all three pipes, bullet and beyond: not Week panic points,🔒
week: Final rehearsing real thing like the it's🔒
stage the to enjoy Getting to it wanting🔒
long Q&A: prioritizing of a fixes list🔒
building and confidence Q&A: memorization🔒
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practice method the Q&A: three-speed🔒
Q&A: like planning don't you and off-season tunes🔒
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