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Today's exercise focuses on one of the piper's most feared note combinations:  The Tachum. The tachum is generally defined as a D grace note from one note going down to the next note.  Most often the tachum is played from a cut note to a dotted note, with the addition of a high G grace note on the first cut note. Like this: Today's exercise, Power Tachums, follows the 8-4-2-1 pattern we've explored in other exercises in the Power Series.   Your goal is to build control and consistency with the grace notes and rhythms in each tachum pattern. Download the exercise and take a listen to some demonstration recordings.  Remember to keep the tachums clear, clean and open.  The first grace note should be on the beat.  The two most common error pipers make when playing tachums are: playing the short note ahead of the beat cutting the short note too short making the ...