Tape technique matters more than tape brand. My method — laying a marker strip first, wrapping every hole the same direction, and pulling snug without stretching — keeps a chanter in tune through a tape change instead of forcing you to retune from scratch.
Big movements like the crunluath are just small movements stacked and compressed. My step-by-step progression builds the crunluath from isolated F gracenotes up through timing and speed, so what feels impossible at full tempo becomes manageable one layer at a time.
When a gracenote keeps locking up, exaggerate it before you shrink it. Deliberately playing an oversized, held-out gracenote trains a weak finger to move independently — then you dial the size back down until it disappears into a clean, fast crunluath from D.
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Get the Pipes Out! — May 6, 2024
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16:19the coach a small matters: from Why stuff lesson a famous🔒
17:04tune-up play-along group and Get pipes out: the🔒
21:57Introducing progression crunluath the exercise🔒
23:43F the Line 1: note grace isolating🔒
27:172: expanded iorram the Line adding🔒
32:57true the crunluath a movement into Compressing🔒
39:136/8 and timing Crunluath shorthand in piobaireachd🔒
43:23D from Crunluath🔒
45:37hand big-grace-note trick for The relaxed a🔒
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