The Irish Tin Whistle - A Complete Guide to Learning

The Irish Tin Whistle
- A Complete Guide
to Learning

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By Clare Mckenna. Everything you need to know about the Irish tin whistle, from playing your first notes to advanced solos and ornamentation.

fully-diagrammed tunes for instant playing; graded scales and exercises;
a wide selection of tunes specially chosen to demonstrate techniques and playing styles;
a comprehensive guide to traditional ornamentation;
key points throughout, highlighting essential aspects of tin whistle technique;
a brief history of the Irish tin whistle and biographies of tin whistle legends;
a collection of 99 great tin whistle tunes; and a tin whistle discography.

Difficulty: Beginning-Intermediate

Song Title:

A Cloudy Morning / A Day at the Races / A Trip to Durrow / A Trip to the Cottage / A Visit to Ireland / Airde Chuain / An Ghaoth Aneas / Apples in Winter / As I Went Out Upon the Ice / Baidin Fheidhlimidh / Baltriorum / Bheir Me O / Bonny Annie / Britches Full of Stitches / Buachaill on Eirne / Bunratty Boys / Captain Byng / Carolan's Draught / Carroll's / Chase Me Charlie / Chief O'Neill's Favourite / Cockles and Mussels / Dan Mack's / Danny Ab's Slide / Dark Girl / Denis Murphy's / Donnybrook Fair / Eamonn an Chnoic / Eanach Cuain / Egan's Hornpipe / Eileen a Run / Fainne Geal an Lae / Fasten the Legging / Gillian's Apples / Give Us a Drink of Water / Happy to Meet Sorry to Part / Hardiman the Fiddler / Haste to the Wedding / Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor / John Doherty's / John Naughton's Favourite / John Ryan's / Killoran's / Kitty in the Lane / Last Night's Fun / Life Is All Chequered / Lord Gordon's Reel / Lucy Campbell / Maeve's Return / Maire Mhor / Merrily Kiss the Quaker / Mick Duggan's Slide / Miss Monaghan / Molly on the Shore / Munster Buttermilk / Nead na Lachan Sa Mhuta / O Dear, What Can the Matter Be? / O'Connell's Trip to Parliament / O'Donnell Abu / Off to California / Oro Se Do Bheatha Abhaile / Over the Moor to Maggie / Patsy Touhy's Reel / Planxty Browne / Roddy McCorley / Row Row Row Your Boat / Scotch Mary / Seamus Cussen's / Seoithin Seotho / Silent Night / Sir Edward Crofton / Smash the Windows / Sonny Murray's / Spancil Hill / Tar Abhaile Arsan mBo / Tea in the Morning / The Ashplant / The Bird in the Bush / The Blackberry Blossom / The Blacksmith's Reel / The Bloom of Youth / The Boy in the Boat / The Boys of Bluehill / The Braes of Busby / The Broom Reel / The Butcher's March / The CarraroeJig / The Clog / The Cloone / The Connaughtman's Rambles / The Cook in the Kitchen / The Drunken Landlady / The Echo / The Fair Hills of Holy Ireland / The Fairies Hornpipe / The Flax in Bloom / The Floating Crowbar / The Flowing Bowl / The Foggy Dew / The Frost Is All Over / The Galway Rambler / The Galway Reel / The Geese in the Bog / The Green Fields of Rosbeigh / The Greencastle / The Harp that Once Thro Tara's Halls / The High Reel / The Home Ruler / The Honeysuckle Hornpipe / The Humours of Ballymanus / The Kerry Slide / The Kesh / The Laird of Drumblaire / The Leg of a Duck / The Limestone Rock / The Liverpool Hornpipe / The Lodge Road / The London Lassies / The Maid Behind the Bar / The Mermaid / The Merry Harriers / The Merry Sisters / The Milestone / The Monasterevin Fancy / The Morning Star / The Repeal of the Union / The Road to Dingle / The Road to Lisdoonvarna / The Sailor's Hornpipe / The Salamanca / The Sally Gardens / The Smell of the Bog / The Stack of Barley / The Teetotaller / The Tinware Lass / The Tullla Reel / The Wexford Lasses / This Old Man / Thug Me Ruide / Thugamar Fein an Samhradh Linn / Tommy Coen's / Tripping Up the Stairs / Twinkle Twinkle Little Star / Ur-Chnoc Chein Mhic Cainte / Weile Weile Waile / Wellington's Advance / Whelan's Jig / Will You Come Down to Limerick? / Willie Coleman's Jig.