Recommended Beginner Tunes?
- burnsbyrne
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I saw this tread and was interested right away! Good question Stella! I am in the same boat..........all my beginners tunes are wearing bit thin!!!!!!!!!
These are all wonderful sounding suggestions...but, now can you all tell me (AND Stella) where we might find them? I am a total fool when it comes to locatig things on the web...sort of the same way I read a map! Need detailed instructions!! Whistle Shop has a book...."Ireland's Best Slow Airs" or something like that...too half awake to look for it right now. Would any of these tunes be found in that book?? Thanks!!
These are all wonderful sounding suggestions...but, now can you all tell me (AND Stella) where we might find them? I am a total fool when it comes to locatig things on the web...sort of the same way I read a map! Need detailed instructions!! Whistle Shop has a book...."Ireland's Best Slow Airs" or something like that...too half awake to look for it right now. Would any of these tunes be found in that book?? Thanks!!
- fiddling_tenor
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First two tunes I learned: "The Blackthorn Stick" and "The Battering Ram." Then I discovered they aren't considered "beginner's tunes." O well.
I didn't notice, but "Si Bheg Si Mhor" is also a fairly easy tune to learn.
I didn't notice, but "Si Bheg Si Mhor" is also a fairly easy tune to learn.
"Put": the act of placing something in a specific spot.
"Putt": the vain attempt to do the same thing.
"Putt": the vain attempt to do the same thing.
- Martin Milner
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I think Ireland's Best 110 Tinwhistle Tunes is worth a look. Broken down into Beginners, Intermediate and more advanced, with a CD available so you can hear how the tunes should sound, and a goodly selection of different types of tunes.
You'll find it on the Hobgoblin site
http://www.hobgoblin-usa.com/local/bookfram.htm
and no doubbt elsewhere.
You'll find it on the Hobgoblin site
http://www.hobgoblin-usa.com/local/bookfram.htm
and no doubbt elsewhere.
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Good sites for tunes:
http://www.tinwhistler.com/music/
http://www.blackflute.com/music/tunes.html
http://www.slowplayers.org/Slowplayers_Music_List.html
http://www.whistleworkshop.co.uk/
http://fingertrip.net/whistle/index.html
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html
http://home.attbi.com/~celticairsn/inst_sheet.htm
Those are just a few of my favorites. Enjoy!
http://www.tinwhistler.com/music/
http://www.blackflute.com/music/tunes.html
http://www.slowplayers.org/Slowplayers_Music_List.html
http://www.whistleworkshop.co.uk/
http://fingertrip.net/whistle/index.html
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html
http://home.attbi.com/~celticairsn/inst_sheet.htm
Those are just a few of my favorites. Enjoy!
- Redwolf
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In addition to those already recommended, I suggest "Slane/Be Thou My Vision," "Amazing Grace," "The Ash Grove," "The Water Is Wide" (aka "O Waly Waly"), "Shepherd's Hey," "South Australia," "The Rose Tree," and "The Threepenny Bit."
I also suggest you think of tunes you like that you already know how to hum and learning to pick them out on the whistle by ear. It's good practice, and may add some good tunes to your repertoire that other whistlers don't always play. Some of the first tunes I learned on the whistle were songs I already knew, many from my Campfire Girls days ("Gypsy Weather," "The White Road" and the theme song from the old Pippi Longstocking TV show, which is not only easy, but bouncy and fun, and a real kid-pleaser).
Redwolf
I also suggest you think of tunes you like that you already know how to hum and learning to pick them out on the whistle by ear. It's good practice, and may add some good tunes to your repertoire that other whistlers don't always play. Some of the first tunes I learned on the whistle were songs I already knew, many from my Campfire Girls days ("Gypsy Weather," "The White Road" and the theme song from the old Pippi Longstocking TV show, which is not only easy, but bouncy and fun, and a real kid-pleaser).
Redwolf