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Sandy Duff

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Cut Common Time: Two Beats, Not Four Sandy Duff is written in cut common time (2/2) — two half-note beats per bar — which is the key difference between a reel and a strathspey, even though both add up to four quarter notes per bar.
Play It in the Traditional Dot-Cut Style Reels can be played even, like a jig, or in the more traditional dot-cut style — Sandy Duff suits the springy, dot-cut approach, with short notes made short by really holding onto the dotted ones.
Bounce, Don't Squeeze, to Get Short Notes Short The secret to short, clean notes in this tune is light, loose fingers that bounce off the chanter, almost like a strike, rather than pressing down hard.
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00:04Common Time Cut Introduction:🔒
00:37or Two vs. Four Strathspeys: Reels Beats🔒
01:22in Traditional the Style Dot-Cut Playing It🔒
01:55The Sound: Notes Springy Hold the Dotted🔒
02:23and GDEs Tachums🔒
02:50Early: The Short, Rule Tachum Not🔒
03:08E Part: and Second Repetition Doublings🔒
04:11A's Low Short Bouncing for Technique🔒
04:57Wrap-Up: Light, Fingers Loose🔒

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03:08two and to part make doublings repetition in to these quite sounds this. can of short like first these low A musically here correct consistent, this sound be all to you're all
04:11I'm ring to lightly, almost A, example, very just like strike. I'm from then and doubling, that I'm E, For F, after dropping doing E going to that finger low a when
05:11just and into put So to it. finesse try light be some more
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