Product Number:
99129M
Format:
Book + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Beginning-Intermediate
Notation Type:
Standard Notation
Pages:
192
Binding:
Perfect Binding
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
0-7866-8759-2
ISBN13:
978-07866-8759-6
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
4/1/2015
All the tools a beginner, novice, and intermediate tin whistle player needs to progress to a high level of competence in Irish music. Includes an "Orientation to Traditional Irish Music", that puts the music in context, with information on scales and modes, dance tune types, the historical roots of whistle playing, and advice for learning by ear. This comprehensive guide includes thorough instruction, exercises, musical examples, and fundamental techniques such as holding, fingering, breathing, and blowing, as well as advanced ornamentation, phrasing, and musical variations. Features a simple and penetrating new approach to understanding and notating ornamentation that goes beyond any previous method. Also includes history and theory of traditional Irish tin whistle music. Online audio recordings of nearly all exercises and examples are provided to aid in learning, especially for those unfamiliar with music notation.
Fingering Chart
Contents of the Companion Audio
Orientation to Traditional Irish Music for Tin Whistle Players
Long Rolls
Short Rolls
Tonguing
Musical Breathing
The Language Analogy Revisited
Practice Revisited, and Some Thoughts on "Muscle Memory"
A Brief Look into the History and Development of the Tin Whistle
Holding and Blowing the Tin Whistle
On Practice
Getting Comfortable with Fingering
The Language Analogy
Cuts
Strikes
Slides
General Index
Index of Tune Titles
The Banks of Lough Gowna
The Banshee
Bantry Bay
The Blarney Pilgrim
The Boys of Ballisodare
The Cliffs of Moher
The Drunken Landlady
The Frost is All Over
The Gravel Walk
Hardiman the Fiddler
Lad O’Beirne’s Reel
The Lonesome Jig
The Monaghan Jig
Old Joe’s Jig
Roaring Mary
The Rose in the Heather
The Sporting Pitchfork
The Star Above the Garter
Tom Billy’s Jig
Tripping Up the Stairs
Tuttle’s Reel
Whelan’s Jig
Willie Coleman’s Jig
Introduction to Ornamentation
First Matters
Ornamentation
Tonguing, Phrasing, and Use of the Breath
Final Matters
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