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Practice Chanter Session — February 12, 2025

⚡ The Short Version

A very short cut note is still a note. A gracenote is not. I won't tell you to play your cut notes like gracenotes, because that isn't true. A quarter note is a horse, a cut note is a cat, and a gracenote is a fly, and your ear hears the difference.
The theme note inside a doubling is the same length as a cut note. That is the measuring stick. If a bar has a doubling on a quarter note in one place and a dot cut in another, the two sound identical in rhythm, and no good player would play them any other way.
Old reel notation leaves the dot cuts out and expects you to know. In a reel written this way, assume the first of every pair of eighth notes is dotted. The only ones printed are the reversals, because those are the ones you could not have guessed.
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Practice Chanter Session — July 31, 2026
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04:01dot standard notation How a in cut works🔒
04:46further pipers stretch dot Why much the🔒
07:43very gracenote? the note a same short a as Is🔒
08:30the horse, The fly cat, the and🔒
12:13sound The a threshold note where being stops a🔒
17:02short a note How cut is for too short🔒
19:22many are gracenotes C in doubling? a How🔒
22:53cut theme The note note match the doubling and🔒
27:56a Smith six parted of reel Chilliechassie, The🔒
28:39reel notation old in dot cuts Implied🔒
38:54The pseudo tachum D low to A from🔒
41:12birls relaxed Staying pressure for the under🔒
56:02reel playing Round, and pointed, smooth🔒

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