Product Overview
Instrumentation: Tin Whistle
Format: Book & Online Audio
Author: Grey Larsen
All the tools the beginner, novice, and intermediate tin whistle player needs in order to progress to a high level of competence in Irish music. Includes an "Orientation to Traditional Irish Music", which puts the music in context, with information on scales and modes, dance tune types, the historical roots of whistle playing, and advice for learning by ear. The book is full of thorough instruction, exercises, and musical examples: from holding, fingering, breathing, and blowing, on up to advanced ornamentation, phrasing, and variations. Features a simple and penetrating new approach to understanding and notating ornamentation that goes beyond any previous method. Also includes history and theory of traditional Irish tin whistle music. For those who don't read music, almost all the exercises and examples appear on the companion audio. Includes access to online audio.
Contents:
About the Author
Acknowledgements and Credits
Also by Grey Larsen
Appendix A: Fingering Chart
Appendix B: Contents of the Companion CD
CHAPTER 1: Orientation to Traditional Irish Music for Tin Whistle Players
CHAPTER 10: Long Rolls
CHAPTER 11: Short Rolls
CHAPTER 12: Tonguing
CHAPTER 13: Musical Breathing
CHAPTER 14: The Language Analogy Revisited
CHAPTER 15: Practice Revisited, and Some Thoughts on "Muscle Memory"
CHAPTER 2: A Brief Look into the History and Development of the Tin Whistle
CHAPTER 3: Holding and Blowing the Tin Whistle
CHAPTER 4: On Practice
CHAPTER 5: Getting Comfortable with Fingering
CHAPTER 6: The Language Analogy
CHAPTER 7: Cuts
CHAPTER 8: Strikes
CHAPTER 9: Slides
General Index
Index of Tune Titles
Introduction
Introduction to Ornamentation
SECTION 1: First Matters
SECTION 2: Ornamentation
SECTION 3: Tonguing, Phrasing, and Use of the Breath
SECTION 4: Final Matters
