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🎥 Video LessonAll LevelsFree Preview📅 Posted September 16, 2024· 30m

LIVE Q&A with Jori Chisholm: World Championships, Tone Protector Success, and Top Piping Tips

The Short Version

Muscle memory only works for short, identical movements. It's for tiny finger patterns like a D throw or a birl that happen the same way every time — not for memorizing whole tunes by mindless repetition. Mindless repetition just makes mistakes permanent, not correct.
Tap your foot on the beat, all the way through the tune. Bagpipe music (outside piobaireachd) keeps a steady rhythm, so your foot is a built-in diagnostic tool — if it goes haywire in a passage, that section needs work.
This summer, Tone Protector users swept the top prizes at Oban and Inverness. 33 placings at the Argyllshire Gathering and the Gold Clasp, Gold Medal, and more at the Northern Meeting all went to pipers using my invention.
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LIVE Q&A with Jori Chisholm: World Championships, Tone Protector Success, and Top Piping Tips
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00:01glitch camera Welcome a back after🔒
00:26a new year piping begins September mindset:🔒
01:47District World Grade Pipe Inveraray Championships recap: 1 takes Band and🔒
04:09Tone to Pipe the Protectors return Band's SFU three top with🔒
04:53and The solo Inverness Oban competitions: most prestigious🔒
06:49and Hudson, Craig more Sutherland, stories: Nick Tone Protector success🔒
09:27Tone on Oban at 33 Protector won placings the🔒
10:44to Glenfiddich ahead the Looking Invitational🔒
11:21position blowpipe video A piping and ergonomics new on coming🔒
12:17Dr. issues from about and Pollock Learning Gord teeth jaw🔒
15:08it and memory build do you what Q&A: how muscle is🔒
20:41airs favorite Q&A: slow🔒
23:14tapping for rhythm correct Q&A: foot training🔒
27:00and wrap-up Whaling the Georgia Song, Demo: South🔒

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