Speed is a test, not a goal. Raise the tempo to find out exactly what breaks, then drop back and fix that one thing. The metronome fixes timing problems only — it will never fix a garbled gracenote.
Build self-driving hands. At full speed there is no time to think through a tachum. Drill the tune's tricky movements — tachums, GDEs, darodos — until they run on autopilot, the way Stuart Liddell's do.
Keep the fingers low and the hands light. Tension and high fingers are habits you teach yourself while practicing. A gear-tie finger guide on the chanter and a gentle touch on low G fix more cleanliness problems than brute repetition ever will.
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Practice Chanter Session — December 11, 2023
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