What's the most difficult thing to learn Irish tinwhistle?
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What's the most difficult thing to learn Irish tinwhistle?
What's the most difficult thing to learn Irish tinwhistle?
Could you please share your experience?
Warren
Could you please share your experience?
Warren
Learning tinwhistle is actually quite easy.
Its learning the Irish that's the hard part.
Seriously.
The hardest part about learning the tinwhistle, for me, was learning to not be afraid to push for the high notes. But learning how to make it Irish is an ongoing struggle to grab onto this idea called 'swing'.
Its learning the Irish that's the hard part.
Seriously.
The hardest part about learning the tinwhistle, for me, was learning to not be afraid to push for the high notes. But learning how to make it Irish is an ongoing struggle to grab onto this idea called 'swing'.
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The most difficult thing is stopping buying the darn things for long enough to actually learn how to play one of them.
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Re: What's the most difficult thing to learn Irish tinwhistl
Actually 'tis prolly the easiest thing to learn,Warren wrote:What's the most difficult thing to learn Irish tinwhistle?Warren
just the hardest to accept.
Buying the latest state-of-the-art whistle that
'X' (insert favourite players name here) uses
won't make you play like them, or improve yer playing.
Persistance i.e. keep practicing that difficult section/tune etc,
and patience knowing that eventually you'll get it how you like it!
HTH
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I agree: the Irish part. I can play a few hymns, some airs sort of pathetically, and a few random tunes grabbed from movies, etc, but I can't really play jigs, reels, etc and make them sound "right".
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I am also a relative beginner. I agree that making it Irish is difficult. Don't let yourself feel that your whistle is not good enough. Your whistle will improve as you improve. It takes a while to learn breath control. If you want to make it sound right you have to listen to the tunes played by someone competent. There are many tunes on the net that are not good examples of Irish Traditional playing. The most important thing is to keep whistling.
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Banish Misfortune has tons of rolls. Learn that 'un.antstastegood wrote:Rolls. Those stupid rolls are going to drive me to insanity.
Our recording of The Jigocity (real audio link) uses it for the first tune.