Supercharge Your Piping Technique with the Power Strathspey Triplets Exercise

[@JFKorber]

Never thought of that note formation in those terms … changing my perspective as I look at my strathspey

[@bagpipelessons]

Great! They certainly are GDE triplets. Glad it helps to think about it that way. Sometimes a change of perspective is all that it takes.

[@JDIngraham]

Great thought on the strathspey "tripling". Sandy Jones taught me these as "taragans" - rhythmically the same as other tripling movements, and also related to the tachum in idiomatic parlance.

[@sonerbihan]

Yes, traditionally, this movement is called tarahum composed of ta-ra ( doubling) and hum (low note) then ta-ra-hum When compressed the sound become tra-hum, the famous C doubling to low A, and B doubling to low G, so frequent in strathspeys tunes These three G-D-E gracenotes are tremendously important to build your different shapes of triplings, whatever the type of melody

[@bagpipelessons]

Thank you! I've never heard of the "taragan" or "tarahum". But they make sense from a canntaireachd point of view since they have three syllables.