The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox

About this book

All the tools the beginner novice and intermediate tin whistle player needs in order to progress to a high level of competence in Irish music. Includes an Orientation to Traditional Irish Music which 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. The book is full of thorough instruction exercises and musical examples: from holding fingering breathing and blowing on up to advanced ornamentation phrasing and 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. For those who dont read music almost all the exercises and examples appear on the companion CD.