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Get the Pipes Out! — September 24, 2025

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This one is a play-along, not a lecture. I get my pipes out and we work through two of my power exercises together, power doublings and power GDEs, at a slow and steady tempo you can actually follow.

The point of a doubling is the note in the middle, not the gracenotes. Both gracenotes stay small and crisp, the high G gracenote lands right on the beat, and the theme note in between is what you should be able to hear. My goal is for every doubling on the page to be rhythmically identical.

You can tune your pipes hours before you play them if you tune them cold. I had a memorial service gig with no chance to tune on site, so I tuned before the drones and reed had warmed up, marked my hemp with a pen, and put it all back together four hours later. It worked.

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Get the Pipes Out! — September 24, 2025

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⏱️ In this class

00:56pipes and up tuned the Get out🔒

02:02your Reading protector tone🔒

04:23power exercise doublings The🔒

05:14Slow note steady and the on with the grace beat🔒

09:22five first together the Playing lines🔒

13:16doubling and a the C note theme in Double🔒

15:05identical Making rhythmically doubling every🔒

18:58get top doublings scrunched Why hand🔒

23:36small Keep your grace crisp and notes🔒

26:13A Henderson at new the look pipes Peter🔒

29:468-4-2-1 GDEs pattern and Power the🔒

40:40A site no to chance gig with tune on🔒

48:45dan doml Teon oesrrptoct, iouermts🔒

54:49strike-in the Fixing a squeal on🔒

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