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Bagpipe Essentials Collection #19: E Doublings

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The E doubling is a G gracenote on E followed by an F gracenote on E. The first gracenote uses the pointer finger, the second uses the middle finger — older books sometimes called this movement "double E" instead.

A crushed E doubling means the gracenotes are too big. If the two gracenotes get so large that there's no room to actually hear the E in between them, that first E gets crushed out entirely — tiny gracenotes are what let that E ring through.

The beat lands right on the first gracenote of the doubling. Whether you're tapping your foot or watching a piper's metronome, the doubling starts exactly when the beat lands — not when it finishes.

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00:17Common Most Piping's of One Doublings🔒

00:32on E F G Then Gracenote, Gracenote,🔒

00:58Older-Book The Term: "Double E"🔒

01:24Crushed Problem E-Doubling The🔒

02:07On the Placement: Gracenote Beat First🔒

02:38Beat the a Metronome Piper's on Watching🔒

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