Learning the Irish tin-whistle

[solitaire]

Anybody else play it? How do you improve if teaching yourself?

Cheers!

[raggety]

I've been playing it for just a a few short months. the best thing i have found is to try and teach yourself simple things like nursery rhymes or christmas carols to begin with, tunes that you can already hum/whistle with your voice since you know them that well. and trying to work stuff out by ear is a VERY useful skill to learn.

but if you're already past that total beginner stage there are many useful sites for improving.


http://www.chiffandfipple.com/ THE best whistling site! has excellent forum. http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewforum.php?f=1

http://www.geocities.com/whistleandsqueak/index.html
Good site has songs for absolute beginners and beyond

http://www.nigelgatherer.com/whist.html .. has useful scale excercises & a good tuition section

http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/ ..1000's of tunes some with whistle tab

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/WarrenAllen/tinwhistle.doc good general info on scales and some unusual tunes

http://www.tinwhistler.com/songtype.asp?songtype=1 mostly traditional tunes.





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[honey-nipples]

interesting!

[raggety]

Originally posted by honey-nipples
interesting!

http://www.geocities.com/whistleannex/SweetTones_001.jpg

:)

[plunky]

This book is very good:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0825603404/ref=pd_sim_b_2/104-4954024-1039154?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

The Complete Irish Tin Whistle Tutor
by L. E. McCullough

It takes you through tunes progressively. The first will be with no ornamentation, then he shows how to add the ornamentation in different variations.

[jnorman]

i think one of the best things i have seen for this was actually a little instruction guide that came with a chanter (the top part of bagpipes) which gave basic instruction on irish grace notes, trills, and other little tricks that give it a more traditional feel and flavor.

[solitaire]

Thanx to all you guys! I will definately look into all your advice. For purposes of curiosity we could keep this thread open to more comments and angles on this charming piece of instrument.

[Bonehead87]

I just got one about a week ago... Only play it about 5 minutes a day but I learned Down by the Sally Gardens easily enough. I like it because everytime I go to play it I can really tell that I've gotten better. Wish guitar was like that when I was starting out!