The Muckin' o' Geordies-'s Byre, low pitch half speed

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1 Taorluaths all take up a sixteenth note in the middle of the beat, after a dotted eighth note, as do the grips. Listen carefully to the videos, especially the slow ones, to get comfortable with this. Slow practice and getting the cuts (D and E gracenotes) nice and crisp can make for a superbly rhythmical effect an give a lot of pleasure in playing. Getting confidence with this rhythm here will sort you out for every 6/8 march in the future.
2 High G gracenotes between notes are all 64th notes, as are the F gracenotes to high G.
3 The high A doublings and the throws have the same rhythm after the beat. This means the strikes are light and short in both cases.
4 The 'hara' is slightly unusual here in that the first high G gracenote closes on the beat, meaning that first D is the beat and so this hara is like a doubling. This then sets up the equal notes after it in bar 8, also uncommon.
5 The F doublings also have the same rhythm as the throws and high G doublings. This makes the whole tune easy to interpret and learn and get a feel for, though they are quite tight doublings and will need a lot of concentration to get the second gracenotes short enough.
6 The low G before the beat in all the throws is a 32nd note, medium heavy.

The Magic Maxim:

"If you can play slowly you can play quickly, but the converse isn't necessarily true..."

This means exactly what it says - the better you become the more exactly you should be able to control what you are doing, and so to test ourselves, we shouldn't practice more quickly, but more slowly.

To think again like computers - a sampling rate for a recording is a measure of how many times a second the computer will measure what is happening in the sound. A higher sampling rate makes for a higher quality of recording, up to a point beyond which it doesn't make much difference. It is the same with piping - the more times in a beat you can say exactly what is happening, the better your piping, up to a point..

By remembering the five steps in learning (see how to practice), we can see that at the point when we assign time to our actions we can get better by increasing our sampling rate. We do this simply by dividing by two, and playing at half speed, with awareness of twice as many points in the beat. When we succeed at this level, we half our speed again, and double the number of places in the bar we try to feel and be aware of what is happening. We keep doing this until every gracenote can be measured opening and closing. If you know the 'New French Method' of rhythm, this helps dramatically, as it automatically gives us a sampling rate of four points per beat.

Start with a quick video (or a medium one) and when you feel you are playing with this nicely, go to a slower one, and try to feel more detail. First listen carefully, bearing in mind that most things are divided by two, to find where the actions occur. Obviously, when you accomplish this, go to the next slower file.

Once you have gone to the slowest file and played along correctly, start to go through the faster ones again to see how much more precisely you are playing, and hearing what you are playing.

Playing exactly with the midi files at a quarter speed is a fairly good test for a group, and this extra secret can dramatically affect the strength of playing within a band, and the confidence. It is true that using this approach, you can bring about a positive revolution in your band's playing and attitude.

It's a simple set of tasks, the trick is in disciplining yourself to do it.