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🎬 Class ReplayAll LevelsFree Preview📅 Posted May 30, 2024· 38m

Preparing for the Summer Piping Season

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The placing is the least important outcome of a competition. It depends more on who showed up than on how you played. Compare your recordings year over year and get your teacher's evaluation — those tell you things a number never can.
Competition season is refining season, not learning season. Tunes should be picked and memorized months before the games. In season you rehearse, do full run-throughs, and polish details — like an athlete in the middle of the playing season.
Pick a slightly easier tune and play it better. Judges and audiences prefer a manageable tune played cleanly and a touch slower over a stretch tune you can't get through. Save the hard tunes for home — don't catch grade two disease.
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Preparing for the Summer Piping Season
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07:41Competition season season refining is🔒
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20:19the least Why matters placing🔒
22:01Getting judge's the from value sheet🔒
23:42pipe entry case Keep info in your your🔒
24:56competition Choosing tunes🔒
26:35two disease Grade🔒
28:23practice: twice through run-throughs In-season and🔒
31:31performances Mock and mock adverse🔒
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