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Today's post features a new exercise for developing strength, control, clarity, and consistency of thumb grace notes. Also called High A grace notes, the thumb grace note is the fourth most common grace note found in pipe tunes (following the primary three: G, D, and E). The thumb grace note is only used either TO or FROM High G. Download today's two-page exercise: Power Thumb Grace notes Take a listen to the audio recording: If you find the recording too fast (or too slow), check out this post on how to change the speed of audio recordings to enhance your practice sessions. You'll see that the exercise starts out pretty basic, but gradually increases with difficulty. You can read more about that on the post about the technique of shaping. Keep fingers and hands relaxed and keep your fingers close to the chanter.  We talked about this in the post Tips for Playing Clean and Fast. Some ...