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The dot-cut rhythmic pattern comes up constantly in pipe music. It's been featured here in the Inner Circle several times (in a lesson called The Dot-Cut and in several other posts) and most recently with a new exercise I designed to bring more fluidity to the dot-cut rhythms in your playing. Today, I'm happy to unveil the expanded and revised version of the Dot-Cut Fluidity Exercise. Thanks to Inner Circle member Stephen Ross who has been incredibly helpful with helping typeset this and other tunes and exercises for the Studio. Download the exercise and take a listen to the demonstration below.  You might want to review the previous post (with some great background and explanation of the exercise). This new expanded version starts with plain notes, then gets progressively more challenging with grace notes, doublings, grips and more. As the technique gets more difficult, the tendency is to inadvertently lengthen the short notes. Be aware of this and ...