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🎬 Class ReplayAll LevelsFree Preview📅 Posted May 28, 2025· 51m

Member Videos — May 28, 2025

The Short Version

Sharing your playing is how you find out what to work on. Recording yourself is one thing, watching it back is another, and showing it to a group is harder still. That whole loop is where the fastest improvement comes from, and both players who sent videos in got a clear list to take away.
Hand position and tension cap your playing long before practice time does. A thumb sitting too high, a bent wrist, a hand clamped down on the chanter. Those are the things that quietly limit speed, clarity and consistency, and small adjustments unlock more than another hour of drilling.
Practice an embellishment in lots of versions, not just the one you need. Slow, medium and full speed, from different notes, in different rhythms and different tunes. Varied practice makes you better at the one movement faster than only ever drilling that one movement.
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Member Videos — March 20, 2025
51m · Full class available to Inner Circle members

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00:15member through Two videos work to🔒
02:08vacuum in beats practicing a Why feedback🔒
04:04setting a Wha Scots Hae 6/8 video: First of🔒
05:48the old in airs books Why write 6/8 2/4🔒
07:34middle below the Thumb finger position: aim🔒
08:19and costs wrist what bent you a Flat wrists,🔒
13:17sponges the drying and out chanter Wet blowing,🔒
18:59speeds embellishments Practicing three at🔒
21:46practice experiment and cornhole the Varied🔒
26:43of video: Hills Second The Perth🔒
32:11the part Clarity third hand in bottom work🔒
34:48long short identical Long patterns, made short🔒
38:44one big Gs, timing: low Flip two B tiny the🔒
42:18bottom easing the wrist Relaxing hand the and🔒

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