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The number of notes and embellishments we use in pipes tunes is quite limited.  We have: 9 notes grace notes and strikes 9 doublings (one for each note) 4 bottom hand, Low G based movements:  grip, taorluath, d throw and birl. That's it for 99.9% of pipe tunes. 9 notes, gracenotes/strikes, 13 embellishments. Today's focus is the seldom seen and very unique-sounding fourteenth movement, the Darado. It's also called the Bubbly Note. It's a low G based movement most commonly found in strathspeys and piobaireachd. Played like this: Low G D grace note to Low G C grace note to Low G B Looks like this, in tunes: Looks like this, written in expanded form: Download today's exercise, Darado Progression Exercise. The exercise takes you through each part of the movement and builds up clean, controlled technique. (Note: the tr abbreviation used in the last 4 lines of the exercise comes from piobaireachd and simple stands for ...