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Today's exercise focuses on Doublings from High A and High G.  Previously, we've discussed the perfect doubling and we've worked on getting clean, strong, and rhythmically consistent doublings.  (Review this lesson:  Perfect Doublings.)  But each of the doublings is slightly modified when the preceding note is either High A or High G. Most of the Doublings (F, E, D, C, B, Low A, and Low G) begin with a High G gracenote.  When the note that precedes the doubling is High A, it is impossible to play the first High G gracenote so we omit it entirely.  This doubling is often referred to as a half doubling.  Let's compare the regular E doubling, for example, as played from F: The E doubling from High A would look like this.  The rhythm is identical, but the first gracenote is missing. When the note the precedes the doubling is High G, that High G gracenote can't be played.  Instead, ...