The seven birl is the one that holds up in hard tunes. Every birl begins on low A. Slide the pinky down the chanter and back like drawing a 7 — the distance is built into your anatomy, so the timing stays consistent where tap-style birls drift.
Get to the birl position in one move, not two. From B, drop the ring finger to low A and land the pinky in its touching position at the same instant. From C or low G, slide the pinky up off the hole while the other fingers drop. That single combined move is the whole trick.
Relaxed, curved fingers fix more than technique does. The locking pinky, missed low G holes, and sluggish birls all trace back to squeezing. Keep the thumb low — across from the gap between middle and ring fingers — and let the fingers stay curved.
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Practice Chanter Session April
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18:55motor habit: Relearning a of three stages learning🔒
21:33pinky the Fixing locking🔒
24:32Birl scale the drills around🔒
26:22slide pinky The birl the C: from🔒
31:55G and hidden from Birls tension low🔒
35:28Mockingbird Patti and Back to Page Hill — its origins🔒
47:03coverage, and G pad foam position, the Low thumb🔒
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