Crossing noise almost always means a lower finger lifted before the highest one. In grips and taorluaths, the fix isn't more speed — it's sequencing. Let the top-most finger for the new note come off first, and treat the pinky's release as the very last movement.
Reading a tune well is really about reading rhythm, not notes. Most players know their nine notes within weeks; what trips people up for years is decoding the actual timing of dot-cut and cut-dot patterns. If a passage won't come out, try singing it first — that tells you whether it's a memory problem or a technical one.
Memorizing a tune is really about memorizing what comes next. I write out just the pickup note and first beat of each part as a memory anchor, because knowing which part follows the one you're playing — not the notes inside it — is usually where memory breaks down under pressure.
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Practice Chanter Session — April 15, 2024
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02:31iPhone InTune the Mic 15 (USB-C for Adapters) Fixing🔒
04:59Reading Dot-Cut and Lexy in Cut-Dot MacAskill Patterns🔒
06:46Top Grips Crossing Hand: to Noise the Fixing🔒
11:59and Multi-Finger High A, Crossings to G, Grips High🔒
13:12Note Small the Sound and Triplet The D grace Keeping Grip's🔒
17:20Taorluaths: and Low Trickier From B-to-B G Taorluath the🔒
19:51Beat the Part: Hardest Fourth Isolating MacAskill Lexy🔒
27:38Patterns in Rhythmic Joe McGann's Fiddle Highlighting🔒
37:41Why Color-Code to Rhythms, Test Memory Singing and Q&A:🔒
39:37Rhythm, Not the Music Is Challenge Reading Notes, Sheet Real🔒
42:31Lord Complexity Alexander Kennedy: Showcase Six-Parted of A Rhythmic🔒
47:00Counting Tune's Cut-First Difficulty Predicting a by Beats🔒
48:14Pickup-Note Flashcards Fast Tunes Using Memorize to🔒
54:53Third Part Usually the Why Outlier Tune's a Is🔒
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