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The Little Spree

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It's one of the first piobaireachds many pipers learn — five variations in total. Ground, ground doubling, a siubhal variation, a taorluath variation, and a crunluath variation. The S and D brackets in the notation mark the singling (first time through) and doubling (second time through).
This tune is fosgailte-style, so there's no conventional taorluath at all. Instead of a taorluath movement, you get a quick GDE gracenote pattern, and instead of a conventional crunluath, you get the open-style crunluath — a long theme note, a short passing note, then an edre.
The ground is built from repeating two-bar phrases, and that's how you should express it. Hold the long note at the end of each two-bar phrase. The ground doubling picks up the pace and drops those held stops, so the tune's rocking, rolling rhythm keeps building instead of pausing.
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00:07Introduction: Piobaireachds Pipers First the One of Learn🔒
00:42Brackets and Doubling: D Ground The S Explained🔒
01:35Edre Abbreviations: Ground the Grips and🔒
03:26Played Notation the Actually How Is vs. Tune🔒
04:57Two-Bar Phrasing the Ground in🔒
06:16Line Timing Unique Three's🔒
08:11and How Organized Ground Is Piobaireachd Variations:🔒
08:39Building The Ground Doubling: Momentum🔒
10:29Its Variation Notes Melody and One🔒
11:57Short-Long Judging A Long-Short: Choice vs.🔒
13:48Taorluath GDE Fosgailte Variation: Pattern A The🔒
16:34GDE Common Mistakes🔒
17:51Open-Style The Conventional Variation: and Crunluath🔒
21:05the Up Beginners Trips Why Crunluath🔒

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