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... cleanly, and No.1 I am becoming more familiar with and that is playing almost clean now also, ... embouchure or smaller top toneholes would help. Both like a fast relatively fine jet, fast ... 1st scale open, 2nd more closed, short of Roisin Dubh with embouchure more closed, then open. ...

... (as on a D whistle) is nearly impossible without tonguing or, as I prefer, a glottal stop. ... by using a simultaneous glottal stop to help guard against squeaks particularly on whistles ... luck. ecohawk P.S. I'll pm you a version of Roisin Dubh later this evening, without all the ...

... All the whistle tutors appear to start with jigs and reels before moving on to slow airs ... have students on any instrument my goal is to help them to play the music they want to play. It ... that the group learn an air. I think it was Roisin Dubh, which I picked because of its straightforward ...

... everyone for your responses which were very helpful in getting me to think about what it is ... help. I'd like to make some individual replies with some general ideas mixed in. Listening to how ... tunes just to listen to them once. I picked Roisin Dubh. one of my favorites was this one by ...

... the amount of pressure they will take but this exercise will be a great help in learning the characteristics of your whistle. The final test is to play a tune the same way. Try something like Foggy Dew or An Roisin Dubh but use an extra slow tempo and practice varying your breath pressure ...

... was this video of Matt Cunningham playing Roisin Dubh on a Bb Generation and it was one of ... get good on my nice blackwood tenor recorder with it's luscious deep round tone and the thought ... so I can play whenever I feel like it. I can't help you with the the history book but C&F is ...

... quite good. However I am having some problems with the tuning pegs. They are quite hard to turn, ... do to make it easier? Also I've been applying roisin to the bow, but it seems to give off alot ... supposed to be like that? All suggestions and help are most welcome!

I though I'd share this with the group. I own many whistles but am a low-intermediate ... the ring that Carey puts on the instrument to help with volume and tone so that the whistle wouldn't ... loud. I then proceeded to play about 8 bars of Roisin Dubh (and pretty well I might add), which made ...

Mick Woodruff also has a nice version on his site. Including the sheet music.

http://micksvirtualwhistle.net/whistle/index.html

Useful sources, thanks PanCelticPiper, 'The Ancient Voice of Ireland' is on my Amazon wish list, ready for my birthday. I too find I learn a lot by ear, but only after I have got the basic notes from some written source. This tune is a good example - I would have tried to play along on a D whistle,...

Useful sources, thanks PanCelticPiper, 'The Ancient Voice of Ireland' is on my Amazon wish list, ready for my birthday. I too find I learn a lot by ear, but only after I have got the basic notes from some written source. This tune is a good example - I would have tried to play along on a D whistle, ...

... careful. To me, these airs are best learnt by ear. It takes me quite a while to get the tune internalised, but when it is, then I can be more free with the timing and specific notes etc. The beauty of these airs is to play around with them so that you don't play them the same way twice.

If you want to learn by ear on the D whistle Joanie Madden's 'Songs of the Irish Whistle' has it. I've been working on that version for a while

Thanks MTGuru.

I thought it would be something like that, but I wasn't going to risk parading my ignorance again.

The Matt Cunningham clip is "high setting" in GMaj fingering. On the Bb whistle, that gives a concert key of Eb. The Session's setting is "low setting" in DMaj fingering. To match the clip (approximately), you could play it on an Eb whistle. Or transpose the dots to GMaj on a Bb ...