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🎬 Class ReplayAdvancedFree Preview📅 Posted February 4, 2021· 53m

Special Guest James MacHattie

⚡ The Short Version

A doubling isn't "TA-da" — it's "ta-DA." The gracenotes in a doubling, taorluath, or grip are there to set up an accent on the note that follows, not to be an accent themselves — hearing it that way fixes a huge amount of timing trouble.
The written page is a simplification, not the truth. Standard notation can't show that a doubling eats time from the melody note it sits on, so a written quarter note next to a doubling-quarter note are not actually the same length when played correctly.
Whether a gracenote group borrows time depends on what it's attached to. A grip, birl, or doubling that falls on a connecting note behaves differently than one that falls on a strong melody note — so the same-looking movement can call for a different amount of "theft" depending on where it sits in the phrase.
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Special Guest James MacHattie
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11:02notes a quarter notes doubling carrying True vs.🔒
15:02right the accent on not note the "TA-da": hearing "Ta-da"🔒
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42:50question: birls of the jig ending phrase Member in a🔒
46:31story "The Reel" Rant behind The🔒
50:46Piping's of online College programming The to pivot🔒

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