Studies in Pibroch - APC Approach (I): Rule 3
Channel: Alt Pibroch Club
Date: 2017-01-18

Cadences are optional.  Remove them when first learning the tune, to get back to the core melodic structure.  When re-introducing them, recognize that, as flourishes, they represented a wide variety of expressions available to the performer: 2-note, 3-note, 4- and 5-note runs; held-E, tripping, streaming styles.  And simple, single high-G gracenotes.  Use them for effect. Don't fetishize on them.