Separate planning from practicing — they use different brains. Decide what you'll work on before you pick up the pipes, the way a lifter plans sets and reps before touching a weight. A written menu of tasks means you never stand there flipping through a binder wondering what to do.
Short, spaced, varied chunks beat one long grind. Ten minutes of blowing practice on five different days beats 50 minutes in one day. Interleaving tasks in five-minute timed blocks feels disorienting, but the science of learning says you improve faster that way.
Learn to play without hearing yourself. In a pipe band you get 99 percent noise and 1 percent signal. Train by feel: earbuds with band recordings or white noise, plus the Bagpipe Gauge to lock in steady blowing when your ears can't help you.
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It's Groundhog Day! Strategies to Keep Your Piping Varied, Interesting, and Motivating
46m · Full class available to Inner Circle members
05:40learn no have something Three fun, rules: harm, do🔒
10:18brain Planning brain practicing vs.🔒
12:13like gym a workout Plan practice🔒
14:02all practice Write down: your menu it🔒
16:00Feedback gauge, metronome, tuner tools:🔒
17:0845 minutes Willie McCallum's focused🔒
21:44stakes yourself the raises Recording🔒
23:23five-minute deadlines, and chunks Timers,🔒
25:32interleaving practice Spacing your and🔒
29:39The problem: pipe unheard playing band🔒
34:16feel, by not Blowing by sound🔒
35:54superpowers hidden and White-noise training🔒
39:52new practice and Q&A: learning scheduling tunes🔒
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