In a slow, pibroch-like tune, you have time to make grips and taorluaths beautiful, not just clean — most players cram the embellishment in too fast and miss that opportunity entirely. When there's no rush, opening up and softening low-G-based movements lets the embellishment itself become part of the music, not just a technical requirement you're racing through.
Drones that aren't in tune at the start of a video and are worse by the end point to a real equipment issue, not just bad luck. A modern setup shouldn't drift audibly in three minutes — that pattern usually means a leak, a drone reed that's paid its dues and needs retiring, or a blowing-pressure mismatch between how the pipes were tuned and how they're actually being played.
When a tune has a part that's been stuck for a long time, stop playing the whole tune and drill the smallest broken piece instead. Isolate it down to half a bar or even a single triplet, nail it slowly and consistently twenty-five times in a row, then expand outward bar by bar — playing the whole tune over and over hoping it resolves itself never actually fixes a stuck spot.
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