If the metronome feels impossible, that's proof you need it. Struggling to play with a metronome means your internal timing isn't steady yet. Start with the simplest possible thing, a scale, at a tapped-in tempo, and build up from there rather than avoiding it.
The 'Death Grip' comes from hand tension, not weak fingers. Squeezing the bag radiates tension up the arm and into the top hand. Set the ring finger and thumb first, keep fingers close and relaxed, and treat any extra squeeze as the problem to solve, not a sign you need to try harder.
Ear-tuning and tech tuning aren't opposites — the tuner teaches the ear. I argue the fastest way to learn to tune by ear is to tune with the Braw Tuner and InTune Mic first, because it shows you what truly in-tune pipes sound and feel like, which trains your ear for when you don't have a tuner.
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Fixing the Death Grip, Tuning Bagpipes by Ear, Playing with the Piper's Metronome — Live Bagpipe Q&A
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