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Practice Chanter Session — August 4, 2025

⚡ The Short Version

A strike is just a gracenote upside down. A gracenote is a tiny higher note that separates two notes. A strike is the same idea going the other way, a tiny lower note tapped in between. Once you see it that way the whole family makes sense.
There are three sizes of strike, and the biggest one has no agreed name. A plain strike, then a strike with one gracenote in front of it, then a strike with two. That third one gets called a doubling strike, a hornpipe movement, an Irish shake or a tripling depending on who you ask.
A missed strike is an aiming problem, not a pressure problem. If your strike sounds fuzzy instead of popping, you are missing the center of the hole. Pressing harder never fixes it. It is exactly like throwing darts: you do not throw harder to hit the bullseye, you aim.
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Practice Chanter Session — August 4, 2025
1h 1m · Full class available to Inner Circle members

⏱️ In this class

01:58Strikes a in reverse 101: gracenote🔒
03:35and D strikes on Heavy light🔒
04:23Grace play in strike gracenote Amazing you The🔒
06:44second the sound triplet for gracenote a Adding🔒
09:17everyone this calls movement What🔒
11:03on the Strikes C B and tricky strike🔒
15:09example the Crossing the classic Minch as🔒
22:27practice theme Gracenotes, slow and notes🔒
24:16Missed are an strikes aiming problem🔒
26:01Green Monster at Afternoon the🔒
28:16The Shaker, Bone strikes packed doubling with🔒
34:30me taught free What throw breaking record a shooter🔒
38:1179th hard the bars down the of Breaking🔒
56:49limiting factor the is real Tension🔒

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