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This week let's take some time to review, refine, and redouble your efforts to ensure your finger technique is clean, consistent, and confident. Each day this week, we'll have a featured exercise that targets a specific feature of piping finger technique. Some guidelines for playing exercises: 1.  Read the music. Even if you have the exercise memorized, keep your eyes on the music and use the practice to help your sight reading skills. 2.  Tap your foot. The key to steady, consistent timing is a steady, confident foot tap. 3.  Use a metronome. The metronome does one thing extremely well: it keeps a steady beat. Use you metronome to keep things rock solid, as you develop and refine your own internal sense of beat. 4.  Play slow. Keep things slow and controlled. If you feel you can't keep up, or if you feel overwhelmed by the reading or playing of the exercise, slow things down. ...