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Expert Whistle Skills #1

Cuts, Crans, Trills, Slides, Bounces plus many more

EXPERT WHISTLE SKILLS #1 - PROGRESSING ON FROM TIN WHISTLE FOUNDATIONS

If you’ve mastered Tin Whistle Basics, Easy Tin Whistle Session Tunes and Tin Whistle Foundations then you’re more than ready for the first of two masterclasses that are Expert Whistle Skills .

By the end of the course you will have increased confidence in your whistle playing through learning and incorporating a wide range of advanced tin whistle techniques. The course has 13 lessons, broken into 3 to 4 tutorials each, where tunes are taught phrase by phrase.

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  • 18 lessons teaching how to play 13 very popular Irish tunes
  • PDF sheet music & mp3’s to download & keep for each tune
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Thomas Johnston
Musician, educator, researcher, Thomas Johnston's work lies in those spaces between Irish traditional music, performing arts for children and young audiences, community music, and music education practice and policy. He is Artistic Director of Ceol Connected, a company dedicated to promoting high quality and meaningful experiences of the traditional arts amongst children. He is also a researcher and lecturer in music education, Irish traditional music, ethnomusicology, and world popular music at Dublin City University. In 2016, Thomas was a recipient of the Arts Council Ireland's Next Generation Bursary Award.In recent years, Thomas has gained expertise as a musician in the…
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Course Structure

The aim of Expert Whistle Skills #1 is to discover and enhance your own playing style and to increase your confidence through learning and incorporating a wide range of ornaments, variations and other advanced stylistic features such as crans, trills, slides, and tonguing. You will discover new ways of adding texture and colour to a carefully selected repertoire of challenging jigs, slip jigs, reels, and hornpipes which are learned by ear. Most importantly, by taking this course, you are given the tools to transfer these newly acquired skills to tunes which you already have in your repertoire thus giving your playing  that progressive edge.

NOTE: There are 6 to 7 mp3’s available to download for each tune. One with the tune played at normal speed, one for the first part of the tune played slowly, then the second part, then various mp3’s demonstrating the different ornamentations taught.

Tunes taught in this course:

  • The Baltimore Salute
  • The Blackbird
  • An Sean Duine
  • The Moneymusk
  • The New Policeman
  • Garrett Barry’s Jig
  • West Clare Reel
  • Whelan’s Jig
  • Kit O’Mahony’s
  • The Swallow’s Tail
  • Give Us A Drink Of Water
  • Vincent Broderick’s
  • The Crock Of Gold
Sample Sheet Music
Download Download The Baltimore Salute ABC Sheet Music. Download Download The Baltimore Salute Standard Notation Sheet Music.
The Baltimore Salute
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Expert Whistle Skills #1 Lessons

1
Advanced
The Baltimore Salute

Focus on incorporating vibrato and bounces

Melody
G Major
Reel
2
Advanced
The Blackbird

Ornamentation: Trills, Slides and Rolls

Melody
D Major
Hornpipe
3
Advanced
An Sean Duine

Ornamentation: Bounces and Rolls

Melody
G Major
Jig
4
Advanced
The Moneymusk

Ornamentation: Short Rolls, Triplets, Articulation

Melody
D Major
Fling
5
Advanced
The New Policeman

Ornamentation: Trills, Vibrato, Rolls and Variation

Melody
D Major
Reel
6
Advanced
Garrett Barry’s Jig

Cranns and ornaments of the note C sharp are introduced

Melody
D Mixolydian
Jig
7
Advanced
West Clare Reel

Thomas will demonstrate how to ‘half hole’ effectively

Melody
A Mixolydian
Reel
8
Advanced
Whelan’s Jig

Rolls and their ability to create rhythmic and melodic variation

Melody
E Minor
Jig
9
Advanced
Kit O’Mahony’s

Melodic Variation

Melody
G Major
Hornpipe
10
Advanced
The Swallow’s Tail

An in-depth study on how to incorporate rhythmic variation

Melody
A Minor
Reel
11
Advanced
Vincent Broderick’s

Tongue Articulation: ‘Ti-ka-ta’ Tonguing

Melody
D Major
Barndance
12
Advanced
Give Us A Drink of Water

Tongue articulation: ‘Ti-ka-ta’ Tonguing

Melody
G Major
Slip Jig
13
Advanced
The Crock of Gold

Melodic Variation

Melody
G Major
Reel
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