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Intense finger training and going to the next level This area of the website is undergoing renewal: individual pages with deeper explanations and 6 training videos for each exercise are being made. This process started in March 2021. The old page will be below until the updates have been made completely. It is appropriate to repeat here that the most important part of learning to pipe is about understanding - it is a matter of thinking more than moving one's fingers faster. When having difficulty, please go back to the 'how to practice' page and find out at which of the five stages of the learning process you are tripping up. Nine times out of ten this will identify the problem and at the same time make obvious the solution. Often, it is enough to simply go through the five steps again and the problem disappears. However, there are times when certain physical aspects need to be strengthened. Speed of finger movement is less important than understanding the role of proportion in music. Having good technique is not about being able to play more doublings in a tune than anyone else, and faster, but it is about being able to decide exactly what the fingers do and when to make the clearest and most understandable musical statement. Often the relative lengths of gracenotes in embellishments go out of balance when someone speeds up, and this is when things start to go wrong. Stamina is also important, both mental and physical. The five stages of learning will challenge mental stamina, the 'two minute trick' will address physical stamina in blowing, and here, you will find a number of exercises to address finger stamina. As explained elsewhere, the idea behind this is to treat each new tune you learn as an 'etude', or 'study'. You should set one or two very exact and well defined goals to achieve with each tune you use in this way, and then prepare for it with the exercises below. Each tune in the library with the videos has its own list of five points to discuss and exercises to work on. These exercises should be completed before attempting to play the tune in question. Please be aware that you should not attempt to make a drastic jump in technique with your favourite tunes, as often the tunes we use for this jump contain issues that were conquered during the process. There are two steps to this section - firstly complete ALL the dexterity and stamina exercises (also with your hands reversed...right above left). This will get your fingers physically ready to proceed to the next stage after that - controlling the rhythm of embellishments. That stage is a question of looking what embellishments you are making the focus of your tune. Each tune should have only one or two elements to raise at a time. To help with dexterity and stamina Do these first and make them a habit Once you have these stamina and dexterity exercises under control, you can address specific technical questions through these exercsies: To help with controlling High G gracenotes Ex 2, Ex 27, Ex 29, Ex 47, To help with controlling D gracenotes Ex 2, Ex 27 To help with controlling E gracenotes To help with controlling strikes Ex 19, Ex 26, Ex 38, Ex 45, To help with controlling Low G Doublings To help with controlling Low A Doublings Ex 34, To help with controlling B Doublings Ex 10,Ex 34, Ex 39, Ex 63, To help with controlling C Doublings Ex 5, Ex 10, Ex 24,Ex 34, Ex 39, Ex 63, To help with controlling D Doublings Ex 14 ('hara'), Ex 34, Ex 62 ('hara'), To help with controlling E Doublings Ex 11, Ex 34, Ex 35, Ex 45, Ex 44, To help with controlling F Doublings Ex 3, Ex 6, Ex 7, Ex 12, Ex 20, Ex 21,Ex 22, Ex 23,Ex 44, To help with controlling High G Doublings Ex 20, Ex 31, Ex 35, Ex 44 To help with controlling High A Doublings Ex 20, Ex 31, Ex 44, To help with controllingThrows Ex 18, Ex 8, Ex 9, Ex 12, Ex 17, Ex 18, Ex 25, Ex 30, Ex 36, Ex 44, Ex46, Ex 56, To help with controlling Grips Ex 1, Ex 25, Ex 42, Ex 45, Ex 54, Ex 55 To help with controlling Taorluaths Ex 5, Ex 32, Ex 33, Ex 53, To help with controlling Birls Ex 13, Ex 4, Ex 13,Ex 30, Ex 36, Ex 38, To help with Tachums Ex 10, Ex 11, Ex 49, Ex 58, Ex 61,Ex 63, Other things, rhythmical accuracy Ex 15, Ex 16, Ex 24, Ex 27,Ex 28, Ex 29, Ex 39, Ex 41, Ex 42, Ex 50, Ex 52, Ex 53, Ex 54, Ex 57, Ex 59, To help with crossing sounds Ex 35, Ex 39, Ex 42, Ex 44, Ex 64 To help with strathspey figures Ex 39, Ex 40, Ex 41, Ex 45, Ex 43, Ex 48, Ex 60, Ex 64 To help with reel figures Ex 49, Ex 51, Ex 58, Ex 59, Ex 60, Ex 61, Ex 63, This is a collection of the exercises given in support of tunes in the library. You can use these as you find your own areas of technique that you feel need strengthened. On the special detailed pages for each exercise there are videos at two pitches and three speeds to play along with together with advice on what the exercise is helping with, how it helps and things to watch out for. Exercise 1 - This has its own detailed page with youtube videos at different speeds and pitches. Exercise 2 - This has its own detailed page with youtube videos at different speeds and pitches. Exercise 3 - This has its own detailed page with youtube videos at different speeds and pitches. Exercise 4 - This has its own detailed page with youtube videos at different speeds and pitches. Exercise 5 - This has its own detailed page with youtube videos at different speeds and pitches. Exercise 6 - This has its own detailed page with youtube videos at different speeds and pitches. Exercise 7- This has its own detailed page with youtube videos at different speeds and pitches. 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