Understanding The Tin Whistle
Introduction.................................................................4
How to Use This Book................................................4
Choosing a Whistle.....................................................5
An Important Clue......................................................5
The Fipple...................................................................5
The Body.....................................................................6
Robert Clarke..............................................................6
Initiating Tones...........................................................7
Holding the Whistle....................................................8
All About the Fingerings.............................................8
Fingering ChartLow Octave...................................10
Fingering ChartUpper Octave.................................13
Octave Drill...............................................................13
Understanding C Natural..........................................15
The G Scale...............................................................16
Practicing Scales.......................................................19
About the Modes.......................................................20
The Modes of D........................................................20
D Modes Chart..........................................................23
The Modes of G........................................................24
G Modes Chart..........................................................26
Shrill Notes and Sensitive Ears.................................27
Practice......................................................................27
The Learning Curve..................................................29
A Most Beneficial Drill.............................................29
The Music.................................................................30
Impressions on the Memory......................................31
Andy of Mayberry.....................................................32
What’s in a Name?....................................................33
Immersion.................................................................34
Let’s Learn a Tune....................................................35
Analytical Listening..................................................36
Parts..........................................................................39
Primes.......................................................................41
The First Note...........................................................43
About Written Music.................................................43
Developing Breathing Skills.....................................45
About Learning Tunes from Notation.......................47
Putting it in Your Fingers..........................................47
Ornamentation...........................................................48
The Slow Aire...........................................................50
The Sound Model......................................................50
Rhythmic Variation...................................................51
Melodic Variation......................................................52
Appendix 1................................................................56
Strange Keys and Half-holing;
Tunable Whistles
Appendix 2................................................................57
Hornpipes
Appendix 3................................................................59
Pointers on Notation
Appendix 4................................................................60
References and Recommended Reading
Appendix 5................................................................61
Furthering Your Musicianship and Sessions
Acknowledgements...................................................63
About the Author.......................................................63