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Practice Chanter Session — November 18, 2024

The Short Version

The practice chanter is a tool, not a substitute for the pipes. The holes are smaller and the hand position is different, so time on the chanter never fully transfers. For most pipers the answer is simply more time on the actual bagpipes.
Hold your chanter more upright and let your hands stay loose. Playing with your forearms flat on a table pulls you into a position you never use on the pipes, and squeezing to stop the chanter slipping is what makes it roll and leak air.
Vague technique goals go nowhere; specific ones get crossed off. Circle the trouble spots in your own sheet music, name the exact movement that needs work, and practice it slow, medium, and full speed until it fires as one automatic motion.
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Practice Chanter Session — November 18, 2024
54m · Full class available to Inner Circle members

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00:59versus pipes chanter fingering the Practice🔒
03:20table vertical, flat on the chanter the not Keep🔒
05:03grip, why Gravity, tighten your hands and up🔒
07:18second chanter first, Pipes🔒
10:57and bore Straight conical versus bore, size hole🔒
13:23octave an your Your is chanter pipes practice below🔒
14:08hands in the rolls chanter your When🔒
18:40time same the spot every down back Coming to🔒
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26:08long counting 12/8 the and Reading notes🔒
33:44this Piper's up Metronome for the Setting tune🔒
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47:43embellishments speeds Practicing at three🔒

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