Pulsing is about length, not loudness, and that changes everything about how you practice it. Because bagpipes have no dynamics, pipers bring out the beat by lengthening the front of the beat, not by playing louder; the Piper's Metronome lets you dial in and hear exactly how much pulsing is right for a strathspey or 2/4 march.
Dot-cuts and pulsing are two separate, independent things, not one blended feel. I demonstrate that your short cut notes should stay exactly the same length no matter how much pulsing you add; pulsing works by stretching the whole beat, not by shortening the cut note further.
Before you program a set, you have to get mathematically precise about your break. The app doesn't work by feel, it works by beats and bars, so figuring out exactly how many beats your break is, and what tempo those beats are counted in, is the single most useful exercise for tightening up transitions in a band.
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Piper's Metronome Tutorial: Getting Started with the World's #1 Metronome for Pipers
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