Make the thing you practice small enough to fit under your thumb. Find the exact movement that breaks down — often two notes and one embellishment — and drill that, not the tune. At that point it isn't music anymore, it's a skill.
Technique, timing and tempo pull against each other, and tempo comes last. Strip a drill down until all three are easy, then raise one at a time: add the grace note, then the embellishment, then the rhythm, then the speed. They are three sliders you can move independently.
If a finger will not do what you want it to do, relax, try again, take a break. Trying harder adds tension, and tension is what breaks the technique down in the first place. On a scale of 1 to 10, I want my effort at a 2 or a 3, with loose hands and my fingers in close to the chanter.
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Back to School: Structured Practice for Technique and Timing
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