Master it steady before you add expression. My rule for slow airs and laments: you can't properly stretch or shape a tune until you can play it perfectly in time first. An inability to control your timing is not the same as expression.
The metronome is a diagnostic tool, not just a timer. Playing along with a click reveals exactly which passages you're drifting from, and that drift almost always points to the real technique or timing problem hiding in that section.
Not every tune's rhythm fits neatly into standard patterns. Flowers of the Forest packs unusual note groupings into its slow 6/8 that don't show up in most other pipe tunes. I color-code the sheet music by rhythm type to make the patterns visible.
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