Im from the philippines...50 plus years old..but the first time I heard amazing grace in the irish tin whistle in you tube..I felt in love with..now Im trying to self learn it even in this late..
I've played a number of instruments in my life and I like to think that "practice" is just, well, playing your instrument. If you don't like the practice, the playing, then what is there to like? I have also been at the hammer and anvil for about four years, and I've found that it can indeed become unbearably monotonous to make the same thing over and over again. By changing things up, taking on new projects, trying to make things I have never made, when I go back to those old boring projects I find that I've gotten much better at them than I was before, and that is what makes them fun again. Practice isn't just playing the same thing over and over until your ears bleed, it's just the act of playing in itself. So it doesn't really matter WHAT you play, so long as you keep playing, keep trying new songs or techniques, and most importantly, keeping yourself interested.
Thank you CutiePie. This is one of your best comments I started playing Tin Whistle 2weeks ago because a harper friend asked me to play with her. I've gotten soooo much information and courage from watching your channel and using TABS. I LOVE IT. I never stayed with other instruments, ( piano,cello,etc.) but I am awaiting a Susato in the mail because of your reviews.The world needs more music and I feel good to know I can make music again without months of review. Practicing is fun now. Thank You.
My tip I used to stick with instruments is finding sheets or tabs of songs I really love. I started mostly with video game music! My best on recorder right now is the Pokemon Center theme. I have started on some classicals now. I also practiced a lot with the Office opening and Gravity Falls oppening.
I am glad I found your channel. I am planning on having my children (5 and 7) learn to play the tin whistle as their first instrument to play seriously (they have lap harps, violin and ukeleles that they can play a a bit on) i will be learning it as well, as I teach them. I learn to play instruments pretty well by ear (piano, clarinet and flute when I was younger) so I hope we will all pick it up quickly, your channel will be a big help! I totally agree about the nursery songs. When I taught myself to play piano I jumped in with pachabel's canon ( my fav) then the minuet and hungarian rhapsody. It was great.
Dear Stephanie, Thank you very much for sharing your way to learn tin whistle with us. Your story meets perfectly to the recent situation of my 7j old daughter, who just started to self-learn tin whistle (mostly with your Disney song tutorial videos like Moana, Aladdin etc.) after giving up learning piano last year! She likes very much your tutorial videos and learns the songs alone by herself with your tutorials,, and to my great surprise, very fast and very good😊
I think it all comes down go truly loving and instrument. Back in early 2000, I took up the ocarina. There was no internet and how it was today, where you can find tutorials and lessons all over the place. I basically taught myself the instrument by literally playing anything I could think of. It was a very unrefined method, but it worked. I actually hid one time while my youth group band was playing and I sounded terrible by I needed to gain experience somehow. They heard me and had mercy on me, although they could not find where to throw the cabbages at. Yet I loved the instrument so much that after years, I am a good player. Decades later with the bagpipe, I had the gut feeling that I could play using synthetic reeds, even though the traditionalists objected against it. But here I am today with my own set of pipes now, because I went purely off of my love for the instrument and my gut feeling. And besides, we all have Stephanie for inspiration
I played the silver C flute when I was a young girl of 8 and when i got to Grade 9 (High School) I joined the band and was told I had to play the oboe because they needed someone to play it that already had some experience with a wind instrument. I must admit that the oboe is a beautiful instrument but the fingerings are very difficult and the reeds were so expensive back in the 1970's. LOL I remember back then they cost $14 each. When I visited Ireland in 2011 I bought myself a rosewood flute with the intention of learning to play it when I retired - well now I'm retired so I figured it would be best to get a Tin Whistle and get comfortable with that first. I make sure to practice at least 4 or 5 times a week and the progress is slow but I'm having fun with it. I'm 61 and feel like a kid again!
It is so nice to hear that you need to get a whistle that sounds nice to your ears. It was a key thing for me on wanting to pic up the instrument! Your videos were great for finding one. I got my first Shearwater recently and What a great whistle! Such fun!
I greatly enjoy the way you present the music. Living in a very small town little is available, so finding your channel was like finding treasure. Also, while I don't care what people think, my dog is a different matter. When I play the banjo or guitar he runs and hides, but he comes to listen to the tin whistle. Very encouraging. As a suggestion, I would request a few more commonly known folk or Celtic songs that would be familiar to your American followers. So far I have searched your videos to find melodies I already know. That way, I only have to learn the tin whistle, not figure out the melody. Your playing is very helpful, and after only 2 weeks I am playing along with your slow demonstrations at normal video speed. Thanks for getting me using the nice Clarke whistle that has sat idle for about 15 years.
This is the story of me playing my synthesizers, I played in my house for around 2 years until one day I decided to bring my rig to a park and have a jam. Honestly I was surprised ,people loved it! I wish I had started 10 years ago. Just play. I never learned anyone else's music. I just played from my heart and what I enjoyed to hear. Just get something and play find scales and progressions that "you like and experiment! The music is within "you" , let it sound..
Good tips. I use most of them myself though I am a recorder player not a whistler. I've also found that some people (like myself) tend to enjoy learning instruments much more when we're not in structured lessons. Music is an artistic pursuit and thus it is more enjoyable when you allow your creativity to flow rather than being told what to practice all the time.
I've always wanted to play an instrument, then i found your channel. Now I torture my neighbors everyday by practising with my tin whistle (hope one day i'll improve enough to stop their suffering hahahah just joking) I really love your channel, thank you for your great vids. Keep going :)
I totally agree with everything you have said in this video, and very well said indeed. Similar to you, I make all the tabs for the music I play. I had thought I am the odd ball until I saw your video. Thank you so much for this video. It is awesome.
Thank you for this! I wish more teachers used these more pragmatic approaches with their students because music should be fun first. I was enrolled in classical music at a young age and did not have a good relationship with it. Since I've shifted my focus from straight technique to pure enjoyment, I feel so free and I'm actually improving more quickly. Tin whistle has been a joy to learn, even if I have to practice in my car so I don't upset the neighbors, hehehe.
No matter how long since this video was made I just bought a whistle because of ur channel!! I play the trumpet so I’m familiar with the breath control and all that but man to gain a slow and steady air blow to hit low D is hard 😅 but I’m greatful for your videos!! I’m learning abt new things and instruments because of you! Thank you!!
Thanks so much for helping me learn the tin whistle! I love your videos! You even have videos of how to play the songs that got me interested in the tin whistle. Thanks again!
I had same experiences at school and didn't pick up an instrument until I was 60. Started with recorder as that was what was in the shop. Husband hated the soprano, and eventually I picked up a ukulele and can play more than just chords, but still learning. Whistle came about because our uke group wants to play Galway Girl, but it needs a whistle, of course, to make it sound right. Having learned recorder, I found that once I realised there was a second octave, I could start to pick out bits by ear. Have had the whistle for about 5 days and reckon I can do this, given a little practice. Would love to play low whistle arthritis in hands and wrists means the instruments would be too heavy for me. Yours are the first, and so far, only tutorials I have found, and they helpful. I have just bought C, D and Bb Dixon whistles, so keep the tutorials coming.
Brilliant video with very sound advice on offer. I learned to play by watching TH-cam videos uploaded by people like yourself who had a love of the whistle and wanted to share so well done and thank you :)
Great tips especially the one to play what you really like. I think the nursery rhymes a ok for a few days, but they don't give you any incentive to keep practicing. Your tutorials fill the gap between boring nursery rhymes and very complicated pieces. Many thanks.
I felt really encouraged by all your wonderful and truly helpful tips. Thank you! I think what you do is really awesome and inspiring. I get lazy with practicing but your videos have provided me with new encouragement to keep practicing!!! Especially with all my favorite songs!
Wow! Am amazed by how much similarity there is between your musical journey, mine and I'm sure, many of your followers. At 62, have been messing with various instruments since I was 5 or 6 with no formal training, just playing for fun by ear. Have collected and played mostly bamboo transverse flutes, and a few recorders since my early 20's and recently dabbled with clarinet with some success, but my mildy arthritic hands objected. Was a struggle at 1st and a plastic, Honer recorder, my dad gave me, kept my musical interest because it was easy to play while I was learning the more challenging embrochures and breath control needed for flute. Still love the mellow tone of my flutes, but a couple years ago, my sons gave me a cocobolo high 'D' whistle by Eric Sampson and I found another joyful means of expression with a great sound that was easy to play. Amazing range it has! Now seeking additional whistles to add to the fun. One of the great things about whistles, they are so accessible for a quick, session without any fuss and easy care. Your tips and tutorials are spot on and great fun! Wish I'd had access to them years ago. Really enjoy the music you are sharing, am learning new and more complex tunes and techniques. Had little knowledge of tabs until recently and learning to use them will help me to learn the intricacies of a tune better than trying to copy by audible memory. The visual aspect of youtube is an amazing tool, makes learning so much easier and faster. Thank you for your commitment to hosting this channel, it is a blessing to many!
I learned piano too, and I got pretty far, but I never liked playing classical music like Bach etc. And it was so hard to find music sheets for piano that was music I liked playing (this was before the internet made that easy) so I stopped lessons after 8 years. But eventually I missed that feeling of learning an instrument and playing music. I always loved the way tin whistles sounded, loved fantasy films and their sound tracks. My mom had a really cheap penny whistle and I would mess around on that a lot. I asked for a low d whistle so many times for Christmas, but they could never find one and they were expensive anyways. So now, at thirty, I finally bought one for myself. It’s a nice one and I love the way it sounds. I practice as much as I want, but I’m not worried about getting really good. I’m just playing it for myself, because I enjoy how it sounds, the songs I can play and how I can play by ear without sheet music.
Thank you, for teaching me my first song on a toy , recorder . I will purchase one of good quality, and I must have a whistle. My music background includes guitar, mandolin, and drums , just having fun with it , again Thank you.
The bottom line for me is that if I am not enjoying what I am playing, I don't bother playing that song. So that not only do I get to enjoy practising, but it has become part of my daily life. I get in from work and the first thing I do is play my Acoustic Guitar and / or Whistle (not at the same time! :O) ) and it helps me unwind etc. And almost without noticing I have gradually improved to where I can attempt most things simply by playing by ear. (Concerning Hobbits was the first tune I learnt and remains my favourite song to play). Thank you Stephanie.
I played a bit when I was 17... now I'm 50 I've just taken it up again, and although I have scales and tabs in my head from before it's like starting over, except I have a little head start... I'm struggling to get a clean scale out of my miller browne flute in F so I got a nice whistle to help that along and I practice both, but not nearly enough. Thanks for the advice it's really helpful :)
Steady speed sessions are brilliant motivation for a learner. Often there is a set list of tunes with a new 'tune of the month' and it's ok to just turn up, play a few tunes you know and listen to the ones you don't. They are less intimidating for a learner to get started with than a full speed one (although they're great). I have really missed sessions during lockdown and always came away from them with a couple of new tunes that I was keen to learn.
Seriously... Who votes 👎 on her videos? Damn haters... I've actually been able to learn how to play by watching her videos. Thank you CutiePie for all that you do 👍 x 1000
Deidra Fellers Thank you! It takes a lot of effort to run a TH-cam channel, so it's lovely to hear when people find it helpful. So glad you're enjoying it. Happy whistling. x
Haha Stephanie you are such a motivator I can't put my whistles down lol . I got a low C howard today i thought i wouldn't be able to play it after my experience with the chieftain low d but oh no it's beautiful to play i literally have played all day today and it's now almost 11 at night . Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us. 😘😘
I used to play solitaire while my computer modem warmed up. Watching a Cutiepie video, the light came on. Now I put my tin whistle near the computer, and practice while the modem comes on, several times a day. I know many songs, as I already play banjo, guitar, and autoharp, so I am just learning the whistle, not both whistle and music. So put your tin whistle where you regularly have to wait, and use the time to practice. And avoid cheapo music books. They alter the melody to avoid the copyrights, and even if you follow perfectly, it won't sound right. Cutiepie is both accurate…..and free, but do give her a thumbs up for her efforts. and just because she is a Cutie.
I love your channel so much; thank you so much for posting videos like these. I have a modest request to make. Do you think you could create a playlist that lists in order of difficulty your videos? I've had a Low D sitting atop our kitchen cabinets for over a year and your Concerning Hobbits video inspired me to pull it down and start playing daily.
Stephanie, I love your channel! I found it while looking for tutorials on playing the Chinese flute, and was drawn in by your Susato. I watched your tin whistle review and fell in love with the Clarke Sweet Tone key of D whistle (and because you played "Concerning Hobbits") Ha!. Mine is in the mail on its way to me. So excited to start playing in church. Thankful & encouraged!
I started off playing an alto recorder because I wanted to play a lot of the music from the Final Fantasy series. Now I'm getting used to the 6-holes because I love the sound of that low whistle. Unfortunately I'm self-taught and learned to play southpaw...so my left hand is on bottom. No idea why, but it hasn't been an issue yet.
I think I have watched all you videos Stephanie and I have enjoyed them all although, to my knowledge you haven't yet given a review about the Chieftain Irish whistle which I would very much like to see.
I'm a rank beginner, but have bought several inexpensive D whistles, and I find the Clarke Sweetone to be the most playable. Perhaps it is because the holes are smaller--less air leakage, therefore fewer squeaks and squeals. Next I like the Feadog Pro. It costs only $2 more than the original Feadog and plays more beautifully. The Oak isn't too awful but my last three--Feadog, Generation and Walton--are uniformly bad. Treating myself to a Tony Dixon tunable whistle. We'll see how that goes.
I have a Celtic Clark in D and I like it a lot but some fingerings for some notes do not quite work so I tried getting one in C from another company and OMG I HATE it. So I switched back to the Clark.
I got my first low G whistle and wishing I had a finger chart. Well I made my own and trying to figure out what will work for me. On Wednesday open mic night I want to show my progress on whistling. TWEET..
Hello Stephanie, All is well here. The weather is amazing and you look even more amazing as always. Your little braids made me look even closer at your beautiful hair. So they were and are very much worth the extra effort it took to create them. Everything about you and your videos are beautiful art , from the way you look, to the way you dress, to the songs that you play, to the way you talk! Some beautiful TH-camrs are better seen than heard, but you are always such a pleasure to listen to... Your voice is like beautiful music to my ears. I hope that today's technology will always exist in some form so that it will allow others to enjoy your beautiful art for hundreds of years. Now, about your play by ear advice... After having played by ear many years in one form or the other... I didn't believe it was possible to explain the process in such a consice and helpful way, but you did an excellent job. And your sharing of your personal experiences are very much appreciated by me and others I'm sure. I'm assuming the lovely photos on the wall are some of your photography? I would like to add that your background music is not too loud or bass boosted on my phones headset. Perhaps the commentor should adjust his bass booster a bit. Your latest video and song is so beautiful. It sort of sounds familiar to me. Your shoulder revealing springish attire is very much appreciated and very suitable for the weather here. I have a question... Does the raised eyebrow have a special meaning. Or, is it just part of your cute childlike cutiepie playfulness? I think its just part of your charming playfulness. If it has a meaning, I wish that it was a secret signal that says... Burt Eastwood are you watching and do you love me. And I would say... Yes I do!
Burt Eastwood we're yet to hear you play the whistle! I'd love that! 😊 Please do consider making a video on your new phone 😉 We're set for a little spring sunshine next week (hopefully). Looking forward to that. As for the eyebrows, the left is far more freely moving than the right, and I can only really raise them individually if I'm frowning 🤣 fortunately I seem to do that when I play, haha. I think on that video I'd actually played something wrong at the eyebrow raise point, or nearly... But kept going anyway! I have a few little tricks, I can wiggle my ears, turn my tongue over, tie a cherry stem in knot in my mouth 😂 oh, and I can lick my elbow, haha. Always nice to have a few party tricks!
hi steph i'm 64yrs and would like to learn to play elcondor pasa could you do a vid or do you know wherecan get tab sheets for tin whistle holesgreat vids by the way keep it up your best n yt for me
I've just found tin whistle through random chance - I wanted to get back into music (like you I have given up on many an instrument) so I googled 'easy instruments'. When I saw the whistles I realised "I have *three* of those!". I got them from my grandparents as a child and never knew quite what they were or how to play them! Turns out they are generation brass whistles in Bflat, C and D. That brought me to your channel - all the other 'professional' how-to videos were god awful, funeral durge renditions of nursery rhymes! Now I can just about play 'Concerning Hobbbits' and I've ordered a Clarke Sweetone so I can play second octave without sounding like a dying bird!.
"find a few minutes to play everyday" = "encuentra unos minutos para tocar todos los días!" This is extremely important, and sometimes, hard to find. = esto es sumamente importante, y a veces, difícil de encontrar. Saludos. Regards.
could you please play something from the witcher? I thik all the songs are wonderful there and they would sound perfectly in tin whistle. Thank you so much for your work
Oh big yes "kaer morhen", "fields of ard skelling" or "Priscilla's song" at least. But all the witcher's soundtrack is wonderful. Like Howard shore's works for Peter Jackson of course. I think this is a great proposal yourpaleness. :-)
Thank you for such an excellent channel, I only found you about a week ago but with your help I am already able to play a short tune on a penny whistle that I have owned for just two days! In your episodes you speak of requests, I am not sure if you have been asked this before, and forgive me if you have, but would you be able to do a lesson on how to play the tune that “captain Picard” played in an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation? This is one of the reasons I purchased a tin whistle as I would love to be able to play this piece.
Thank you. So glad you've found the channel helpful. I have a tutorial for 'Inner Light' that he plays during the next gen, is that the one? Or were you thinking of something else?
CutiePie Thank’s for the reply, yes that is the one, sorry I haven’t found that yet, I am still progressing through all of your lovely content. 👍 (Edit) just found it! Thank you so much, and you play it so beautifully, not sure how long it will take to learn but at least I have a great place to start 👍
Hello great video as always ;-) I've already made a comment on your video "add emotion". I really love the way you teach and speak to us. I'm a new beginner on the tin whistle and I would be very happy with a tuto for "Last of the wilds" by Nightwish. Some players have done great covers but I can't find a tuto... So maybe you ??? Please ??? And also it's the same for "Elan" by Nightwish too: I see covers but no tuto, and "May it be" by Enya (great cover from you on the low D but no tabs). Those are just requests, of course do as you want / can, if you have the time and desire. Tutos or at least tabs for a tin whistle in high D?!... It would be very helpful for me (and for others too I guess ;-)) Anyway: thanks for all and carry on like this.
Surprisingly relatable 😊 ❤ … it seems that our middle school music group classes didn’t really set us up for success. I tried all the same instruments as you and had the exact same experience. Nursery songs are so annoying. I loved the bagpipes because we got to skip all that and recently I dove into some virtual bagpipe class where they had done up all the nursery rhymes and I was like… nooooo! I went for a medieval instrument so I could try and skip all that lol… Thanks for making this video! It encourages us all to keep trying to make music! I’m starting live studio art sessions in my folkloric arts community next week :) i like your suggestion and agree that it would be great to start a virtual tin whistle group once a week... I’m such a beginner I’d be nervous to lead something like that. Any suggestions on how to format it? Is this something a beginner could do? I’d be worried people would be showing up expecting more or less virtual lessons- what do you think?
You'd need to approach it like a "beginner's band" I think and use each week to 'rehearse' a tune. Choose a tune (maybe one of my tutorials for example) and each work towards learning to play that easy tune THAT WEEK. Everyone has the week to learn the tune themselves from my video tutorial, and when you get together again, you see how you each got on, discuss the challenges you faced, play a little for each other, play together etc. If everyone plays along with me, you'd all be in time with each other too. Of course you could also do this with any video, or any piece of music as you all progress. I have a few beginner's videos that would start people off. But useful to get a group of newbies together first I think.
Would you give us a few tips on playing by ear. I would love this skill, but can only play reading the music. Maybe you could make a video on this, I'm sure other people would like this as well as me.
I made one last week :) Check it out : th-cam.com/video/NYy6V7eQfs0/w-d-xo.html Don't forget to hit the bell next to the subscribe button - that way you'll get notifications when I post and you'll never miss a video :) x
I'm terrible at blowing steady streams of air, are there any beginner folk songs that mostly use "tutting" so i can practice steady blowing when I know what it's supposed to sound like?
You could perhaps try a slow version of the Fools Jig th-cam.com/video/LpbuWYQkNmU/w-d-xo.html but I usually recommend something like 'slow air' or 'Scarborough Fair' as something more beginner friendly 😊
Exactly same as me tried guitar b4 never stuck at it did recordeder buy didn't concentrate so tryin to learn the tin/penny whistle I want to read music bit it's hard at the mo can't see the pattern I see things in patterns nd things then click but this I can't see a pattern yet so struggling any tips any 1
Do you have a lesson that teaches how to listen to a song by ear and roughly transcribe it into Tin Whistle tabs/scale? New to this instrument, but have a wide variety of songs that would be interesting to transcribe, if that is at all possible.
Stephen Ducke has a nice series of books with sheet music to read as well as tabs , and they come with a downloadable audio , they are all Celtic music though,so you can hear them first. I learned to read music so it is helpful to me, but Stephanie has great things to learn as well . Hearing her is so motivating and she has played songs I don’t have written down . We are blessed to have her .
If you still need help with motivation after a while I'd be pragmatic about it. I mean everyone runs into resistance and we all sometimes need something to reinvent ourselves or at least rekindle the fire. But you have to get to where you burn in the first place. You have to get to where you want it so bad you can taste it. There are things we all have to fight and there are ways to do it and we should listen to other people and watch what they do and get critique and more importantly device exercises. YOu can't do the latter unless you can analyse your trouble spots and break them down into segments and assignments. But motivation - aside from getting over all the inevitable initial failing and all the ways we can continue to feel about that unless we watch ourselves - should come from just wanting to play and play good, and wanting it almost too much. Sooner or later you MUST become your own teacher as well as getting taught. You must connect to your own drive. After all practice is work. If that kills you - you are not going to get much beyond having the odd good time at entry level. Which is fine btw. I have seen people not getting anywhere for a decade and I have seen some people move past them within a couple of years. Something happened along the way. More often than not it's not talent. It's initative and persistence. You've got to get to where it connects to your desires. Your mind must be buzzing with how you get around that next challenge. You must be fully alert. You've got to get to where the pipes, the pipes are calling. I say that as a guitarist of 20-odd years picking up the whistle for the first time btw. But I DID invent a flute as a kid of 8 on my own with no directions. And it worked. Most of the time. If not in a way anyone could most likely predict. My parents could not afford the pan pipes I desired so badly back then. I forgot about all that except for making the odd willow pipe for fun. We did have a guitar. So I picked that up. And did the work. These days I am forcing it to sound more like pipes, flues or woodwinds, on leads. So there you go.
Hey @CutiePie (or anyone else) - I'm looking for the video where she explains how nnot to get too much drool inside your flute whether it's tin or low whistle :-) Can someone tell me how this video is called exactly?
Im from the philippines...50 plus years old..but the first time I heard amazing grace in the irish tin whistle in you tube..I felt in love with..now Im trying to self learn it even in this late..
I've played a number of instruments in my life and I like to think that "practice" is just, well, playing your instrument. If you don't like the practice, the playing, then what is there to like?
I have also been at the hammer and anvil for about four years, and I've found that it can indeed become unbearably monotonous to make the same thing over and over again. By changing things up, taking on new projects, trying to make things I have never made, when I go back to those old boring projects I find that I've gotten much better at them than I was before, and that is what makes them fun again.
Practice isn't just playing the same thing over and over until your ears bleed, it's just the act of playing in itself. So it doesn't really matter WHAT you play, so long as you keep playing, keep trying new songs or techniques, and most importantly, keeping yourself interested.
Every your tip is true. Enjoyment is that leads a man to success. It is a pleasure to watch you again!
Thank you CutiePie. This is one of your best comments I started playing Tin Whistle 2weeks ago because a harper friend asked me to play with her. I've gotten soooo much information and courage from watching your channel and using TABS. I LOVE IT. I never stayed with other instruments, ( piano,cello,etc.) but I am awaiting a Susato in the mail because of your reviews.The world needs more music and I feel good to know I can make music again without months of review. Practicing is fun now. Thank You.
Thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying it. Happy Whistling! xx
Thank you, Cutie! I appreciate your realism and pragmatic perspective on playing music.
My tip I used to stick with instruments is finding sheets or tabs of songs I really love. I started mostly with video game music! My best on recorder right now is the Pokemon Center theme. I have started on some classicals now. I also practiced a lot with the Office opening and Gravity Falls oppening.
I am glad I found your channel. I am planning on having my children (5 and 7) learn to play the tin whistle as their first instrument to play seriously (they have lap harps, violin and ukeleles that they can play a a bit on) i will be learning it as well, as I teach them. I learn to play instruments pretty well by ear (piano, clarinet and flute when I was younger) so I hope we will all pick it up quickly, your channel will be a big help! I totally agree about the nursery songs. When I taught myself to play piano I jumped in with pachabel's canon ( my fav) then the minuet and hungarian rhapsody. It was great.
Thank you. I hope you all enjoy playing and I hope my videos continue to be helpful. x
Dear Stephanie, Thank you very much for sharing your way to learn tin whistle with us. Your story meets perfectly to the recent situation of my 7j old daughter, who just started to self-learn tin whistle (mostly with your Disney song tutorial videos like Moana, Aladdin etc.) after giving up learning piano last year! She likes very much your tutorial videos and learns the songs alone by herself with your tutorials,, and to my great surprise, very fast and very good😊
I can't put the damned things down ha ha 60 and just started this march i absolutely love it.
I think it all comes down go truly loving and instrument. Back in early 2000, I took up the ocarina. There was no internet and how it was today, where you can find tutorials and lessons all over the place.
I basically taught myself the instrument by literally playing anything I could think of. It was a very unrefined method, but it worked. I actually hid one time while my youth group band was playing and I sounded terrible by I needed to gain experience somehow.
They heard me and had mercy on me, although they could not find where to throw the cabbages at. Yet I loved the instrument so much that after years, I am a good player.
Decades later with the bagpipe, I had the gut feeling that I could play using synthetic reeds, even though the traditionalists objected against it. But here I am today with my own set of pipes now, because I went purely off of my love for the instrument and my gut feeling.
And besides, we all have Stephanie for inspiration
I played the silver C flute when I was a young girl of 8 and when i got to Grade 9 (High School) I joined the band and was told I had to play the oboe because they needed someone to play it that already had some experience with a wind instrument. I must admit that the oboe is a beautiful instrument but the fingerings are very difficult and the reeds were so expensive back in the 1970's. LOL I remember back then they cost $14 each. When I visited Ireland in 2011 I bought myself a rosewood flute with the intention of learning to play it when I retired - well now I'm retired so I figured it would be best to get a Tin Whistle and get comfortable with that first. I make sure to practice at least 4 or 5 times a week and the progress is slow but I'm having fun with it. I'm 61 and feel like a kid again!
It is so nice to hear that you need to get a whistle that sounds nice to your ears. It was a key thing for me on wanting to pic up the instrument! Your videos were great for finding one. I got my first Shearwater recently and What a great whistle! Such fun!
I greatly enjoy the way you present the music. Living in a very small town little is available, so finding your channel was like finding treasure. Also, while I don't care what people think, my dog is a different matter. When I play the banjo or guitar he runs and hides, but he comes to listen to the tin whistle. Very encouraging.
As a suggestion, I would request a few more commonly known folk or Celtic songs that would be familiar to your American followers. So far I have searched your videos to find melodies I already know. That way, I only have to learn the tin whistle, not figure out the melody. Your playing is very helpful, and after only 2 weeks I am playing along with your slow demonstrations at normal video speed. Thanks for getting me using the nice Clarke whistle that has sat idle for about 15 years.
This is the story of me playing my synthesizers, I played in my house for around 2 years until one day I decided to bring my rig to a park and have a jam. Honestly I was surprised ,people loved it!
I wish I had started 10 years ago. Just play. I never learned anyone else's music. I just played from my heart and what I enjoyed to hear. Just get something and play find scales and progressions that "you like and experiment! The music is within "you" , let it sound..
Good tips. I use most of them myself though I am a recorder player not a whistler. I've also found that some people (like myself) tend to enjoy learning instruments much more when we're not in structured lessons. Music is an artistic pursuit and thus it is more enjoyable when you allow your creativity to flow rather than being told what to practice all the time.
I've always wanted to play an instrument, then i found your channel. Now I torture my neighbors everyday by practising with my tin whistle (hope one day i'll improve enough to stop their suffering hahahah just joking) I really love your channel, thank you for your great vids. Keep going :)
@Josephine Torrefranca Uh i think the neighbors had enough because he/she is not answering O_O
A trick: watch movies on Flixzone. I've been using it for watching loads of movies recently.
@Joseph Emilio definitely, have been using Flixzone for months myself :D
I totally agree with everything you have said in this video, and very well said indeed. Similar to you, I make all the tabs for the music I play. I had thought I am the odd ball until I saw your video. Thank you so much for this video. It is awesome.
Thank you for this! I wish more teachers used these more pragmatic approaches with their students because music should be fun first. I was enrolled in classical music at a young age and did not have a good relationship with it. Since I've shifted my focus from straight technique to pure enjoyment, I feel so free and I'm actually improving more quickly. Tin whistle has been a joy to learn, even if I have to practice in my car so I don't upset the neighbors, hehehe.
No matter how long since this video was made I just bought a whistle because of ur channel!! I play the trumpet so I’m familiar with the breath control and all that but man to gain a slow and steady air blow to hit low D is hard 😅 but I’m greatful for your videos!! I’m learning abt new things and instruments because of you! Thank you!!
Thanks so much for helping me learn the tin whistle! I love your videos! You even have videos of how to play the songs that got me interested in the tin whistle. Thanks again!
I had same experiences at school and didn't pick up an instrument until I was 60. Started with recorder as that was what was in the shop. Husband hated the soprano, and eventually I picked up a ukulele and can play more than just chords, but still learning. Whistle came about because our uke group wants to play Galway Girl, but it needs a whistle, of course, to make it sound right. Having learned recorder, I found that once I realised there was a second octave, I could start to pick out bits by ear. Have had the whistle for about 5 days and reckon I can do this, given a little practice. Would love to play low whistle arthritis in hands and wrists means the instruments would be too heavy for me. Yours are the first, and so far, only tutorials I have found, and they helpful. I have just bought C, D and Bb Dixon whistles, so keep the tutorials coming.
Brilliant video with very sound advice on offer. I learned to play by watching TH-cam videos uploaded by people like yourself who had a love of the whistle and wanted to share so well done and thank you :)
Great tips especially the one to play what you really like. I think the nursery rhymes a ok for a few days, but they don't give you any incentive to keep practicing. Your tutorials fill the gap between boring nursery rhymes and very complicated pieces. Many thanks.
I felt really encouraged by all your wonderful and truly helpful tips. Thank you! I think what you do is really awesome and inspiring. I get lazy with practicing but your videos have provided me with new encouragement to keep practicing!!! Especially with all my favorite songs!
Thank you! So pleased you're enjoying it!
Wow! Am amazed by how much similarity there is between your musical journey, mine and I'm sure, many of your followers. At 62, have been messing with various instruments since I was 5 or 6 with no formal training, just playing for fun by ear. Have collected and played mostly bamboo transverse flutes, and a few recorders since my early 20's and recently dabbled with clarinet with some success, but my mildy arthritic hands objected. Was a struggle at 1st and a plastic, Honer recorder, my dad gave me, kept my musical interest because it was easy to play while I was learning the more challenging embrochures and breath control needed for flute. Still love the mellow tone of my flutes, but a couple years ago, my sons gave me a cocobolo high 'D' whistle by Eric Sampson and I found another joyful means of expression with a great sound that was easy to play. Amazing range it has! Now seeking additional whistles to add to the fun. One of the great things about whistles, they are so accessible for a quick, session without any fuss and easy care. Your tips and tutorials are spot on and great fun! Wish I'd had access to them years ago. Really enjoy the music you are sharing, am learning new and more complex tunes and techniques. Had little knowledge of tabs until recently and learning to use them will help me to learn the intricacies of a tune better than trying to copy by audible memory. The visual aspect of youtube is an amazing tool, makes learning so much easier and faster. Thank you for your commitment to hosting this channel, it is a blessing to many!
As always ‘Words of Wisdom’ big thank you, CutiePie
I learned piano too, and I got pretty far, but I never liked playing classical music like Bach etc. And it was so hard to find music sheets for piano that was music I liked playing (this was before the internet made that easy) so I stopped lessons after 8 years. But eventually I missed that feeling of learning an instrument and playing music. I always loved the way tin whistles sounded, loved fantasy films and their sound tracks. My mom had a really cheap penny whistle and I would mess around on that a lot. I asked for a low d whistle so many times for Christmas, but they could never find one and they were expensive anyways. So now, at thirty, I finally bought one for myself. It’s a nice one and I love the way it sounds. I practice as much as I want, but I’m not worried about getting really good. I’m just playing it for myself, because I enjoy how it sounds, the songs I can play and how I can play by ear without sheet music.
Good luck to you , your helping a lot of people to enjoy playing that probably wouldn’t otherwise.
Just follow Cutie Pie on TH-cam, simple! You are honestly why I picked up my tin whistle again! Thank you!
Thank You So Very Much for Creating a Joyful Community for Learning the Whistle - It's Really FUN!!! 💞💗💞
Love your channel...your enthusiasm is rubbing off :-)
Thank you, for teaching me my first song on a toy , recorder . I will purchase one of good quality, and I must have a whistle.
My music background includes guitar, mandolin, and drums , just having fun with it , again Thank you.
Thanks for the advice :) I'm super excited to start tin whistle !! My flute is on the way but I still watch your videos to get ready ^^
The bottom line for me is that if I am not enjoying what I am playing, I don't bother playing that song. So that not only do I get to enjoy practising, but it has become part of my daily life. I get in from work and the first thing I do is play my Acoustic Guitar and / or Whistle (not at the same time! :O) ) and it helps me unwind etc. And almost without noticing I have gradually improved to where I can attempt most things simply by playing by ear. (Concerning Hobbits was the first tune I learnt and remains my favourite song to play). Thank you Stephanie.
I love your videos! I just picked up a whistle for myself and practicing is so much fun! Keep doing what you're doing :)
What a great video. This just squashes insecurities in a very approachable way! Thank you!
I played a bit when I was 17... now I'm 50 I've just taken it up again, and although I have scales and tabs in my head from before it's like starting over, except I have a little head start... I'm struggling to get a clean scale out of my miller browne flute in F so I got a nice whistle to help that along and I practice both, but not nearly enough. Thanks for the advice it's really helpful :)
I recently decided to puck up the tin whistle in addition to my flute and piano. Your videos have been such wonderful help. Thank you for sharing.
Steady speed sessions are brilliant motivation for a learner. Often there is a set list of tunes with a new 'tune of the month' and it's ok to just turn up, play a few tunes you know and listen to the ones you don't. They are less intimidating for a learner to get started with than a full speed one (although they're great). I have really missed sessions during lockdown and always came away from them with a couple of new tunes that I was keen to learn.
Seriously... Who votes 👎 on her videos? Damn haters... I've actually been able to learn how to play by watching her videos. Thank you CutiePie for all that you do 👍 x 1000
Deidra Fellers Thank you! It takes a lot of effort to run a TH-cam channel, so it's lovely to hear when people find it helpful. So glad you're enjoying it. Happy whistling. x
I just found her channel last week, but I am impressed by the quality of the videos. So yeah, why would anyone down vote them?
Im looking forward to picking up on your helpful tips and advice, cool vlogs Ms Pie, keep blowing in the right direction..✌
Thank you for this testimony, very encouraging and positiv attitude enduicing ^^ ☀️
You are a complete delight to watch and are a pure joy regarding your style of teaching!! Just subscribed...
Haha Stephanie you are such a motivator I can't put my whistles down lol . I got a low C howard today i thought i wouldn't be able to play it after my experience with the chieftain low d but oh no it's beautiful to play i literally have played all day today and it's now almost 11 at night . Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us. 😘😘
I used to play solitaire while my computer modem warmed up. Watching a Cutiepie video, the light came on. Now I put my tin whistle near the computer, and practice while the modem comes on, several times a day. I know many songs, as I already play banjo, guitar, and autoharp, so I am just learning the whistle, not both whistle and music.
So put your tin whistle where you regularly have to wait, and use the time to practice. And avoid cheapo music books. They alter the melody to avoid the copyrights, and even if you follow perfectly, it won't sound right. Cutiepie is both accurate…..and free, but do give her a thumbs up for her efforts. and just because she is a Cutie.
I found it quite easy to start with as I can play by ear. I'll look into getting a tutorial disc at some point.
I love your channel so much; thank you so much for posting videos like these. I have a modest request to make. Do you think you could create a playlist that lists in order of difficulty your videos? I've had a Low D sitting atop our kitchen cabinets for over a year and your Concerning Hobbits video inspired me to pull it down and start playing daily.
Excellent tips!
Yeah! Your video is so helpful and gives me a lot of confidence.
Stephanie, I love your channel! I found it while looking for tutorials on playing the Chinese flute, and was drawn in by your Susato. I watched your tin whistle review and fell in love with the Clarke Sweet Tone key of D whistle (and because you played "Concerning Hobbits") Ha!. Mine is in the mail on its way to me. So excited to start playing in church. Thankful & encouraged!
Thank you. Hope you love playing it and learning with me 😊
Such good advice. Thank you for the encouragement.
Srsly, so helpful. Thanks!!
Great lesson as always! Thanks CP!
I agree with all the tips! Thank you :)
Thank you for very good advice!
Excellent information, brilliant. Keep up the great teaching, it's appreciated. Thanks Stephanie!
Thank you, very good motivation.
I keep several instruments in my office. Harmonica, whistle, mandolin. I keep a whistle and harmonica in my computer bag too.
Thanks for the video! Much love to you, sister.
I started off playing an alto recorder because I wanted to play a lot of the music from the Final Fantasy series. Now I'm getting used to the 6-holes because I love the sound of that low whistle. Unfortunately I'm self-taught and learned to play southpaw...so my left hand is on bottom. No idea why, but it hasn't been an issue yet.
excellent advice, thank you
I think I have watched all you videos Stephanie and I have enjoyed them all although, to my knowledge you haven't yet given a review about the Chieftain Irish whistle which I would very much like to see.
Thank you. So glad you're enjoying the channel. I do have a Chieftain, the review is on its way 😉
I love the tin whistle 😁❤️...
I'm a rank beginner, but have bought several inexpensive D whistles, and I find the Clarke Sweetone to be the most playable. Perhaps it is because the holes are smaller--less air leakage, therefore fewer squeaks and squeals. Next I like the Feadog Pro. It costs only $2 more than the original Feadog and plays more beautifully. The Oak isn't too awful but my last three--Feadog, Generation and Walton--are uniformly bad. Treating myself to a Tony Dixon tunable whistle. We'll see how that goes.
I have a Celtic Clark in D and I like it a lot but some fingerings for some notes do not quite work so I tried getting one in C from another company and OMG I HATE it. So I switched back to the Clark.
I agree with you on Generation whistles. They're in every music store, but the ones I've tried have really hit or miss quality.
I got my first low G whistle and wishing I had a finger chart. Well I made my own and trying to figure out what will work for me. On Wednesday open mic night I want to show my progress on whistling. TWEET..
Hello Stephanie, All is well here. The weather is amazing and you look even more amazing as always. Your little braids made me look even closer at your beautiful hair. So they were and are very much worth the extra effort it took to create them. Everything about you and your videos are beautiful art , from the way you look, to the way you dress, to the songs that you play, to the way you talk! Some beautiful TH-camrs are better seen than heard, but you are always such a pleasure to listen to... Your voice is like beautiful music to my ears. I hope that today's technology will always exist in some form so that it will allow others to enjoy your beautiful art for hundreds of years. Now, about your play by ear advice... After having played by ear many years in one form or the other... I didn't believe it was possible to explain the process in such a consice and helpful way, but you did an excellent job. And your sharing of your personal experiences are very much appreciated by me and others I'm sure. I'm assuming the lovely photos on the wall are some of your photography? I would like to add that your background music is not too loud or bass boosted on my phones headset. Perhaps the commentor should adjust his bass booster a bit. Your latest video and song is so beautiful. It sort of sounds familiar to me. Your shoulder revealing springish attire is very much appreciated and very suitable for the weather here. I have a question... Does the raised eyebrow have a special meaning. Or, is it just part of your cute childlike cutiepie playfulness? I think its just part of your charming playfulness. If it has a meaning, I wish that it was a secret signal that says... Burt Eastwood are you watching and do you love me. And I would say... Yes I do!
Burt Eastwood we're yet to hear you play the whistle! I'd love that! 😊 Please do consider making a video on your new phone 😉
We're set for a little spring sunshine next week (hopefully). Looking forward to that. As for the eyebrows, the left is far more freely moving than the right, and I can only really raise them individually if I'm frowning 🤣 fortunately I seem to do that when I play, haha. I think on that video I'd actually played something wrong at the eyebrow raise point, or nearly... But kept going anyway!
I have a few little tricks, I can wiggle my ears, turn my tongue over, tie a cherry stem in knot in my mouth 😂 oh, and I can lick my elbow, haha. Always nice to have a few party tricks!
Your advice is right on the money! You are such a cutie pie! I love your vids! Thanks!
hi steph i'm 64yrs and would like to learn to play elcondor pasa could you do a vid or do you know wherecan get tab sheets for tin whistle holesgreat vids by the way keep it up your best n yt for me
Christopher Higgins it might be worth a look on Google images to start with. But I'll certainly take a look 😊
Love your videos. Would you consider doing tabs for the song Sukiyaki. I think it would sound great on the tin whistle.
Send me a link to a version you like on TH-cam. I'll check it out 😊
Sheet music/tabs etc is the best way to turn people off playing any instrument. Playing by ear should be taught first, always.
Good advise
I've just found tin whistle through random chance - I wanted to get back into music (like you I have given up on many an instrument) so I googled 'easy instruments'. When I saw the whistles I realised "I have *three* of those!". I got them from my grandparents as a child and never knew quite what they were or how to play them! Turns out they are generation brass whistles in Bflat, C and D.
That brought me to your channel - all the other 'professional' how-to videos were god awful, funeral durge renditions of nursery rhymes! Now I can just about play 'Concerning Hobbbits' and I've ordered a Clarke Sweetone so I can play second octave without sounding like a dying bird!.
Great news! Hopefully you'll continue to put those whistle to good use 😊
"find a few minutes to play everyday" = "encuentra unos minutos para tocar todos los días!"
This is extremely important, and sometimes, hard to find.
= esto es sumamente importante, y a veces, difícil de encontrar.
Saludos. Regards.
I'm so happy, in my first day with my tin whistle I already play "Concerning hobbits" with a nice sound. I thought it would be more difficult 😅
could you please play something from the witcher? I thik all the songs are wonderful there and they would sound perfectly in tin whistle. Thank you so much for your work
yourpaleness I've got some coming up in a few weeks 😊 stay tuned.
Oh big yes "kaer morhen", "fields of ard skelling" or "Priscilla's song" at least. But all the witcher's soundtrack is wonderful. Like Howard shore's works for Peter Jackson of course.
I think this is a great proposal yourpaleness. :-)
Thank you for such an excellent channel, I only found you about a week ago but with your help I am already able to play a short tune on a penny whistle that I have owned for just two days! In your episodes you speak of requests, I am not sure if you have been asked this before, and forgive me if you have, but would you be able to do a lesson on how to play the tune that “captain Picard” played in an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation? This is one of the reasons I purchased a tin whistle as I would love to be able to play this piece.
Thank you. So glad you've found the channel helpful. I have a tutorial for 'Inner Light' that he plays during the next gen, is that the one? Or were you thinking of something else?
CutiePie Thank’s for the reply, yes that is the one, sorry I haven’t found that yet, I am still progressing through all of your lovely content. 👍
(Edit) just found it! Thank you so much, and you play it so beautifully, not sure how long it will take to learn but at least I have a great place to start 👍
Excellent!
Hello great video as always ;-)
I've already made a comment on your video "add emotion". I really love the way you teach and speak to us. I'm a new beginner on the tin whistle and I would be very happy with a tuto for "Last of the wilds" by Nightwish. Some players have done great covers but I can't find a tuto... So maybe you ??? Please ??? And also it's the same for "Elan" by Nightwish too: I see covers but no tuto, and "May it be" by Enya (great cover from you on the low D but no tabs). Those are just requests, of course do as you want / can, if you have the time and desire. Tutos or at least tabs for a tin whistle in high D?!... It would be very helpful for me (and for others too I guess ;-))
Anyway: thanks for all and carry on like this.
Surprisingly relatable 😊 ❤ … it seems that our middle school music group classes didn’t really set us up for success. I tried all the same instruments as you and had the exact same experience. Nursery songs are so annoying. I loved the bagpipes because we got to skip all that and recently I dove into some virtual bagpipe class where they had done up all the nursery rhymes and I was like… nooooo! I went for a medieval instrument so I could try and skip all that lol…
Thanks for making this video! It encourages us all to keep trying to make music! I’m starting live studio art sessions in my folkloric arts community next week :) i like your suggestion and agree that it would be great to start a virtual tin whistle group once a week... I’m such a beginner I’d be nervous to lead something like that. Any suggestions on how to format it? Is this something a beginner could do? I’d be worried people would be showing up expecting more or less virtual lessons- what do you think?
You'd need to approach it like a "beginner's band" I think and use each week to 'rehearse' a tune.
Choose a tune (maybe one of my tutorials for example) and each work towards learning to play that easy tune THAT WEEK.
Everyone has the week to learn the tune themselves from my video tutorial, and when you get together again, you see how you each got on, discuss the challenges you faced, play a little for each other, play together etc. If everyone plays along with me, you'd all be in time with each other too.
Of course you could also do this with any video, or any piece of music as you all progress.
I have a few beginner's videos that would start people off. But useful to get a group of newbies together first I think.
@@CutiepieTinWhistle wonderful! thank you so much! This is super helpful :)
Would you give us a few tips on playing by ear. I would love this skill, but can only play reading the music. Maybe you could make a video on this, I'm sure other people would like this as well as me.
I made one last week :) Check it out : th-cam.com/video/NYy6V7eQfs0/w-d-xo.html
Don't forget to hit the bell next to the subscribe button - that way you'll get notifications when I post and you'll never miss a video :) x
I'm terrible at blowing steady streams of air, are there any beginner folk songs that mostly use "tutting" so i can practice steady blowing when I know what it's supposed to sound like?
You could perhaps try a slow version of the Fools Jig th-cam.com/video/LpbuWYQkNmU/w-d-xo.html but I usually recommend something like 'slow air' or 'Scarborough Fair' as something more beginner friendly 😊
Thanks. 🎶
There is a typo in your fifth heading. You are my favorite teacher.
That's the unfortunate thing about TH-cam, once the video's up, there's really nothing you can do about it 🤣😂 glad you enjoyed it though!
Exactly same as me tried guitar b4 never stuck at it did recordeder buy didn't concentrate so tryin to learn the tin/penny whistle I want to read music bit it's hard at the mo can't see the pattern I see things in patterns nd things then click but this I can't see a pattern yet so struggling any tips any 1
You seem to be a discovery learner, a very common trait in people with the dyspraxia range of issues like me
Do you have a lesson that teaches how to listen to a song by ear and roughly transcribe it into Tin Whistle tabs/scale?
New to this instrument, but have a wide variety of songs that would be interesting to transcribe, if that is at all possible.
I have a video that might help you get started playing by ear:
th-cam.com/video/NYy6V7eQfs0/w-d-xo.html
@@CutiepieTinWhistle Thank you! your help is greatly appreciated.
Hi I am just starting playing tin whistle ...I have a Clarke in “D” what is the best books to get with tab tunes in to practice 😙
Stephen Ducke has a nice series of books with sheet music to read as well as tabs , and they come with a downloadable audio , they are all Celtic music though,so you can hear them first. I learned to read music so it is helpful to me, but Stephanie has great things to learn as well . Hearing her is so motivating and she has played songs I don’t have written down . We are blessed to have her .
Left top corner photo - good looking kitty.
Looks like one of those elders who try to do a selfie the first time in their lives.
If you still need help with motivation after a while I'd be pragmatic about it. I mean everyone runs into resistance and we all sometimes need something to reinvent ourselves or at least rekindle the fire.
But you have to get to where you burn in the first place. You have to get to where you want it so bad you can taste it.
There are things we all have to fight and there are ways to do it and we should listen to other people and watch what they do and get critique and more importantly device exercises. YOu can't do the latter unless you can analyse your trouble spots and break them down into segments and assignments.
But motivation - aside from getting over all the inevitable initial failing and all the ways we can continue to feel about that unless we watch ourselves - should come from just wanting to play and play good, and wanting it almost too much. Sooner or later you MUST become your own teacher as well as getting taught. You must connect to your own drive. After all practice is work. If that kills you - you are not going to get much beyond having the odd good time at entry level. Which is fine btw.
I have seen people not getting anywhere for a decade and I have seen some people move past them within a couple of years. Something happened along the way. More often than not it's not talent. It's initative and persistence. You've got to get to where it connects to your desires. Your mind must be buzzing with how you get around that next challenge. You must be fully alert. You've got to get to where the pipes, the pipes are calling.
I say that as a guitarist of 20-odd years picking up the whistle for the first time btw. But I DID invent a flute as a kid of 8 on my own with no directions. And it worked. Most of the time. If not in a way anyone could most likely predict. My parents could not afford the pan pipes I desired so badly back then. I forgot about all that except for making the odd willow pipe for fun. We did have a guitar. So I picked that up. And did the work. These days I am forcing it to sound more like pipes, flues or woodwinds, on leads. So there you go.
Tip #6 - Live alone. ;) Family are seldom supportive in the early stages.
my fingers sometimes get numb and tingly when i play. What am i doing wrong?
I wish I could tell you, same happens to me. I think it has to do with posture and our necks mostly
Question: What does that little plus sign at the bottom of the whistle mean?
You'll find a video on how to read tin whistle tabs here:
th-cam.com/video/qXuxzKfuEaQ/w-d-xo.html
Hope that helps 😊 x
Great !!! I' m learnig the same way , thanks a Lot !!!!!
Kisses !!!!!!
Can you play the last of "the Last of The Mohicans" and teach us how to play it?
Hey @CutiePie (or anyone else) - I'm looking for the video where she explains how nnot to get too much drool inside your flute whether it's tin or low whistle :-) Can someone tell me how this video is called exactly?
th-cam.com/video/aJTmp8ziA-8/w-d-xo.html :)
@@CutiepieTinWhistle Thank you so much - Go raibh maith agat :)
I hate playing nursery rhymes! I love tin whistle because I feel free to play anything I want (if I can)
Great!
Please can play more Irish song's ☘️🎼
Where can I buy Christian worship tabs not old hymn!