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Bagpipe Essentials Collection #7: Crossing Noises

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D to E is the trickiest transition on the scale. Four or five fingers move at once — on the top hand you just drop the ring finger, but on the bottom hand every finger switches places simultaneously.
A crossing noise happens when fingers drop before they lift. It's an extra little blip sound — usually a flash of low G — caused by fingers coming down before the fingers that need to lift have finished lifting.
The fix is always the same order: raise first, then drop. Raise every finger that needs to be raised before dropping the fingers that need to be dropped, even though it happens in a split second — this trades a brief, inaudible false fingering for a clean transition instead of an audible crossing noise.
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00:03Trickiest E to Transition: D The🔒
00:22the Hand: Bottom Reviewing D G through🔒
00:40D Going from What Changes E to🔒
01:27Sounds a Noise What Crossing Like🔒
02:27First, Correct Then Lift The Order: Drop🔒
03:24Dropping Noise Why First the Causes🔒
03:40Going E D Rule Same to Down The from🔒
04:27Trade-Off: Audible False A Blip an vs. Tiny The Fingering🔒
05:04Crossing Applying Rule the on Scale Anywhere the to Noises🔒

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