Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox

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. Alsoincludes 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

• Acknowledgements and Credits ÿÿÿÿÿ
• Also by Grey Larsen ÿÿÿÿÿ
• Appendix A: Fingering Chart ÿÿÿÿÿ
• Appendix B: Contents of the Companion CD ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 1: Orientation to Traditional Irish Music for Tin Whistle Players ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 10: Long Rolls ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 11: Short Rolls ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 12: Tonguing ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 13: Musical Breathing ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 14: The Language Analogy Revisited ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 15: Practice Revisited, and Some Thoughts on "Muscle Memory" ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 2: A Brief Look into the History and Development of the Tin Whistle ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 3: Holding and Blowing the Tin Whistle ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 4: On Practice ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 5: Getting Comfortable with Fingering ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 6: The Language Analogy ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 7: Cuts ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 8: Strikes ÿÿÿÿÿ
• CHAPTER 9: Slides ÿÿÿÿÿ
• General Index ÿÿÿÿÿ
• Index of Tune Titles ÿÿÿÿÿ
• Introduction ÿÿÿÿÿ
• Introduction to Ornamentation ÿÿÿÿÿ
• SECTION 1: First Matters ÿÿÿÿÿ
• SECTION 2: Ornamentation ÿÿÿÿÿ
• SECTION 3: Tonguing, Phrasing, and Use of the Breath ÿÿÿÿÿ
• SECTION 4: Final Matters ÿÿÿÿÿ