learning tin-whistle

**Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:41 pm**

Greetings one and all.

I don't suppose that anyone knows where I can find one of those Guinness packs do they.

cheers

**Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:07 pm**

Try guinness.com

**Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:29 pm**

found it, cheers pal

**Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:14 am**

so after not touching my whistles for a year or two i learned 'battle of brisbane' on my crappiece i got last july but never played.

it's tight. i just wish learning songs wasn't so much of a chore.

**Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:38 am**

goodbar wrote:it's tight. i just wish learning songs wasn't so much of a chore.

Songs are really easy on the Tin Whistle what are you on about?

**Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:52 am**

Fintan wrote:
go_go_fishy_power_07 wrote:im back frm my holiday woot it rocked i met this guy who plays tin whistle and he played a song for my cos it was my bday woot

Cool . What was the song? Where'd ye go? I hope you had a good one...sounds like it.

well im back again ive had to go to hospital for an operation on my knee but i went to goathland and i dont know he he had a name for the song but it was awsome and yea i can finaly run with out pain whoooooo

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

**Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:03 pm**

Heather wrote:Just ordered two new Feadog whistles, a D and a C.

Do you prefer nickel or brass? I know the nickel supposedly sounds shriller but I'm curious about which you prefer for the Feadog.

**Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:12 pm**

strummercalling wrote:
Heather wrote:Just ordered two new Feadog whistles, a D and a C.

Do you prefer nickel or brass? I know the nickel supposedly sounds shriller but I'm curious about which you prefer for the Feadog.

Nickel every time. I think the sounds better and they look better than the brass ones.

**Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:02 am**

Heather wrote:
strummercalling wrote:
Heather wrote:Just ordered two new Feadog whistles, a D and a C.

Do you prefer nickel or brass? I know the nickel supposedly sounds shriller but I'm curious about which you prefer for the Feadog.

Nickel every time. I think the sounds better and they look better than the brass ones.

Thanks for the info! And I certainly agree that they look better.

**Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:46 am**

I've been playing tin whistle for several years now. I grew up listening to Irish music, but didn't start playing until I was 15 or 16 (I'm 19 now). I started out with a cheap generation D and worked my way through tunes that I knew from albums I own. I'm not sure I'd reccomend this approach, as I basically dove right into the fire, learning advanced tunes like "Kid on the Mountain" (I started by learning the tunes from my favourite traditional album, a live recording by the Bothy Band.) I picked up fingering pretty fast and soon I was able to play tunes in-tempo with the recordings I was learning from. Unfortunately, since I was teaching myself and learning by ear, I picked up bad habits in trying to immitate the advanced ornementation techniques I was hearing on record. Only later did I buy a Irish whistle guidbook, "The Tin Whistle Toolbox" by American flute and whistle player Grey Larson, that I learned proper ornementation techniques, like cuts and strikes and rolls. In the process I had to go back to the basics and play the tunes very slowly, paying attention to rhythm and percisioin. So if you're starting out, my advice is to learn simple tunes by ear and work them through slowly until the fingering has become ingrained in your head, but don't try to play them at the same tempo as on recording until you are able to keep steady tempo, and most importantly, don't try to do ornamentation by ear - get a book that teaches you how to do it properly, or have a more advanced player teach you in person. Most tunes are fairly easy and straightfoward to learn, but mastering proper ornamentation takes time and patience. Of course, playing Pogues stuff doesn't require much of that because in the ensemble setting, all you need to do is carry the melody. But when it's only the whistle, having good ornamentation is key and it is easy to tell an experienced player from a beginner and even easier to tell if the person has taught themselves improper techniques and is trying to pass it off as advanced playing, like I was doing a couple years back. Although it's one of the easiest istruments to pick up and work out a basic tune, like any instrument, the whistle takes time to learn to play well.

damn, I've written a lot - sorry to go on so long, hope it's been helpfull. Last thing I'll say is that if I had to recommend a whislte to start out with, I'd go with Susato (my current brand of choice to play at sessions, where it's important to be heard above the other instruments, as my good quality Copeland is too soft for sessions but great for playing on its own.) Susato is more expensive then Generation and Clarke but it's not high end. they have a good, loud shound and are tuneable, with removeable head pieces. Because they're comparatively cheap, I've been able to buy Susato whistles in a number of different keys, which is perfect for the weekly sessions I play in. Cheap whistles are not very good quality, and I think that Susato is much easier to learn on then generation, because it has a wider bore and a thumb rest. I also own an Overton low F whistle which is about 15 years old (given to me by an uillean-piper friend who I play with) and it still sounds amazing. Perfect for gorgeous slow airs, and I'm also getting better at playing faster tempo tunes on it, although it's more difficult then smaller whistles and its low pitch is no good for playing in sessions. I would like to purchase an Overton high D, especially now knowing it's Spider's choice

Also, tin whistle albums to check out: Mary Bergin's Feadoga Stain is one of the most important whistle albums to be released in the last 25 years. Also, Joanie Maddon of Cherish the Ladies, Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains, Seamus Egan, John McKenna, Grey Larson, Paddy Taylor, Matt Molloy (actually, some of these are more flute players, but there's overlap), Kevin Crawford, Sean Ryan, Willie Clancy, Seamus Ennis and many others...

ive gone off long enough, hope this was helpful :lol:

ps. Spider, you're the man! I was up front near the stage at Brixton last December and seeing you play up close was fucking brilliant. I wish you would sing Drunken Boat at the reunion shows - one of my absolute favourite songs the Pogues ever did (but Tuesday Morning's fantastic too!)

peace.

**Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:10 pm**

In a spur of the moment thing ive started to properly learn to play the tin whistle my uncle got me. However, the internet says you need to overblow to get into the higher octave. My overblowing into this octave sounds dreadful, especially by the time i get to F(sharp, its a D whistle). Any other ways to cross octaves, or to make it sound nice. Also, what are the notes on a Bb whistle?

**Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:23 am**

Speaking of whistles, my Overton Soprano D is in the mail!

**Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:04 pm**

heres one free course of tin whistle
http://www.whistletutor.com
Oim planning to buy one tin meself, D one, just for the basics and stuff..

**Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:46 am**

My D Tin whistle recently came, and the only song I've been able to work out on it is 'Streams of whiskey', due to the tabs being online....the only pogues tin whistle tabs I've seen online are the three on folkpunktablature....so I guess my question is this: does anyone know of any other pogues tin whistle tabs online or is any one kind hearted enough to tab out a few simple ones?

**Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:41 pm**

yeah, oim aware of the problem.. except the guitar and bass its very hard to foind tabs for other instruments regarding Pogues' songs, so tin whistle goes under the same.. however oi think oi found sth more than just Streams of whiskey.. the problem is where if oi have it remembered..
oi'll goive it a look th3clash1977, when oi come up with sth, oi'll send it here, cheers.

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