Irish Tin Whistle Lesson 1 - [The Basics] Start Here

This Beginner Tin Whistle tutorial is for those who are new to tin whistle and shows you how to play, step by step, with clear guidance and demonstration from Kirsten Allstaff, a professional tin whistle player. This instrument really lends itself to video instruction making learning it online both a fun and achievable goal.
Take this beginner tin whistle lesson to learn where to start, then continue to the OAIM website for even more top tips, sheet music and a comprehensive tin whistle FAQ section to help you learn how to play tin whistle quickly and efficiently.
In this popular beginner tin whistle tutorial sampled from the OAIM course Tin Whistle Basics you will learn:
00:00 Introduction
00:36 Tin Whistle Fundamentals
02:25 How to create a good tone and avoiding making tin whistle squeak
03:51 Play two nursery rhymes on tin whistle - Mary Had a Little Lamb and Frere Jacques
Get free tablature for Scale of D by clicking here: www.oaim.ie/tin-whistle/learn...
Get free tablature for Mary Had A Little Lamb here: www.oaim.ie/tin-whistle/learn...
Course Synopsis:
By the end of the OAIM Tin Whistle Basics course, you will have a repertoire of sixteen popular Irish session tin whistle tunes, the ability to play tin whistle cuts, tin whistle taps and tin whistle rolls, as well as a deeper understanding of the Irish music tradition. The course has 17 lessons, broken into 3 to 4 tutorials each, where tunes are taught phrase by phrase www.oaim.ie/tin-whistle/learn...
OAIM Tin Whistle Basics Course Structure:
First, you will learn how to hold the tin whistle, proper hand and finger posture and good basic tin whistle technique is taught. Then you move into a progressive study of tin whistle scales, tin whistle articulation and tin whistle ornamentation. The first tunes taught are nursery rhymes ‘Mary had a little lamb’ and ‘Fréres Jacques’ as these tunes are well known allowing you to focus on the technique of learning the D scale and producing the proper tone from your tin whistle.
After mastering these basic tin whistle tunes in the D scale you will progress to learning the following popular Irish tin whistle session tunes as well as associated ornamentation:
The Rattlin’ Bog
We won’t go home until the morning
I’ll tell my ma
Britches full of stitches
Shoe the donkey
The Butterfly
Na Ceannabhain Bhána
Johnny O’Leary’s
Sonny’s Mazurka
John Blessing’s
Sally Gardens
The Ten Penny Bit
O’Keefe’s Dream
The Feakle Jig
Connacht Heifers
Harvest Home
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