Bagpipe Lessons: Doubling a Note

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"There are a number of different ways to separate the melody notes in bagpipe music. The easiest and most simple is a single grace note and then the other most other common way is to have a grace note which are known as doublings. That gives you sort of a one, two pulse in between a note. You can play a doubling on any note on the chanter. You can come to it from any note on the chanter. So, for example, if you were playing a C doubling, you can come to it from E or F or A or any other note. And what these do is they add not only space between the notes, but sort of sometimes a bubbly effect and it's a way of breaking the music up a little bit. Since the bagpipe has continuous sound and you don't sort of pick your hand up off a keyboard and move it to another spot on the keyboard, this is a way of creating some space in the music."