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Expert Whistle Skills #3

An Abundant Study of Technique

EXPERT WHISTLE SKILLS #3 - CONTINUING ON FROM EXPERT WHISTLE SKILLS #2

Expert Whistle Skills #3, designed to follow on from the skills learned in Expert Whistle Skills #2, continues to explore more advanced whistle techniques such as the trill, vibrato, different types of rolls and tonguing technique.

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 9 lessons, broken into 5 tutorials each, where tunes are taught phrase by phrase.

18 lessons teaching how to play 13 very popular Irish tunes
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Mikie Smyth

Mikie Smyth began playing the pipes at the age of nine. His first teachers were Colm De Brun and Andy Conroy in the Pipers Club in Henrietta Street Dublin. As a teacher Mikie has worked for many piping organizations and traditional summer schools, including the Willie Clancy and Joe Mooney summer schools. He is currently the pipes tutor at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in the University of Limerick where he teaches on both the B.A and M.A˰programmes. Mikie has performed both as a soloist and with shows (Riverdance and Ragus) in over 5 countries. Mikie has…

Course Structure

This course is an abundant study of technique, packed with bounces, cranns, rolls, double rolls, trills, backward stitches, open backward stitches, backward rolls and triplets! It is not only for the whistler but is relevant to the flautist and the piper too. Throughout the series of nine lessons, Mikie largely focuses on the repertoire of Seamus Ennis, the great Irish piper, singer and folk collector (1919-1982). The beauty of Mikie’s classes is that they are relevant for ANY level of playing. He teaches the bare melody of each tune slowly, phrase by phrase before giving a lesson on advanced technique and how to create the ‘bubbles’ and ‘crunches’ within the tune in question. This course is complete with a ‘technique bank’, that is a page given at the end of the course cataloging all the new techniques introduced in the course.

NOTE: There are 5 mp3’s available to download for each tune. One with the tune played at normal speed, one for the first part of the tune, then the second part, then the third part all at slow versions demonstrating the different ornamentations taught.

Tunes taught in this course:

The Wandering Minstrel
The Dublin Reel
Martin Wynne’s
O’ carolan’s Draft

Six Penny Money
Pat Come Over The Hill
The Otter’s Holt
Humours Of Drinagh

Sample Sheet Music

Download Download The Wandering Minstrel ABC Sheet Music. Download Download The Wandering Minstrel Standard Notation Sheet Music.

The Wandering Minstrel

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Expert Whistle Skills #3 Lessons

1

Advanced

The Wandering Minstrel

Mikie focuses on the ornament ‘bounce’ and various methods of articulation that can be utilised wi…

2

Advanced

The Dublin Reel

He will also introduce various types of ‘double rolls’ that can be included in the tune.

3

Advanced

Martin Wynne’s

Mike focuses on variation in this lesson and demonstrates many possibilities on how to create melodic varia…

4

Advanced

The Cuckoo’s Nest

Mikie will continue to develop his teaching on bounces, double-rolls, and variation.

5

Advanced

O’Carolan’s Draft

Different methods of achieving vibrato will be explored and demonstrated.

6

Advanced

Six Penny Money

The jig “Six Penny Money” is a tune Mikie learnt from the playing of Seamus Ennis.

7

Advanced

Pat Came Over The Hill

Mikie will continue in his study of ornamentation: ‘the backward roll’ and ‘the open back…

8

Advanced

The Otter’s Holt

Mike focuses on variation in this lesson and demonstrates many possibilities on how to create melodic varia…

9

Advanced

Humours Of Drinagh

Mikie continues his study of ornamentation with focus on the crann and complex triplet work.

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