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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
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22:27practice notes, and Gracenotes slow theme🔒
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