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🎬 Class ReplayIntermediateFree Preview📅 Posted May 28, 2026· 54m

Practice Chanter Session — May 28, 2026

The Short Version

Almost every embellishment starts exactly on the beat. The first sound of a doubling, a birl or a single gracenote lands when your foot hits the floor. The only exceptions are the grip, which finishes before the beat, and the taorluath, whose E gracenote lands on it.
A crushed doubling is not fixed with bigger gracenotes. Every embellishment is made of tiny gracenotes plus theme notes that carry the time. To open one up you give more room to the theme note in the middle, never more size to the gracenotes.
Crossing noises come from tension, and they are fixed with a nudge. Tight hands drop fingers early and lift them late, which is exactly how a crossing sneaks in. Deconstruct the move, exaggerate the separation for a minute, then play it normally and the timing has shifted.
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Practice Chanter Session — July 31, 2026
54m · Full class available to Inner Circle members

⏱️ In this class

02:31Where the fall embellishments beat? do against🔒
05:51beat The general the start rule: on🔒
07:30taorluath The the are and exceptions grip🔒
09:02throws D Light heavy and🔒
10:52in music your beats sheet the Marking🔒
14:12Grace versus notes notes theme🔒
16:53double old Why the it books C called🔒
18:29Opening piobaireachd for embellishments🔒
23:05with crushed a Fixing doubling separation🔒
27:20fast playing The challenge clean of and🔒
29:53four movements Nine notes, notes, grace thirteen🔒
32:26tension a crossing creates How noise🔒
38:42of teabag theory it overdoing The🔒
47:01birl The from G low🔒

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