Wondering if anyone got the book/cd tutorial yet? I ordered it and am anxiously awaiting it, esp. for the cd aspect of it.
Wondering how long it takes to get it after ordering it.
Thanks.
I ordered it last week, and it arrived the next day! Amazing.
It’s very very good - thoughtfully put together. I use very much the same technique for rolls and crans, which was nice, although I know there is a lot of variation among flute players.
The tunes are great - a really wide selection, and super to listen and be able to see the transcription of the ornaments.
I received mine very quickly from Ireland - within a week of ordering - if I remember correctly.
The exercises for the techniques (cuts, taps, short roll, long roll, etc.) are clearly laid out and manageable for the average intermediate player and great for the “newbie”.
What I like best about the set is Ms. McCormack’s two CD’s. She plays all the exercises clearly and slowly. You can easily play along. Then she plays a large collection of 60+/- tunes. First she plays each tune at a slow tempo so you can clearly hear the cuts, taps, rolls…In fact, an intermediate player could play along with a little bit of practice. Then the tune is played at a faster tempo.
Each tune in the tune book is annotated with each ornament including where she takes a breath.
Oh, then there is the added bonus of listening to a player with such a hard, clear, sharp edge to her sound. What a great flautist!
This set is a “must” buy.
hope this helps,
Paul
I too ordered the flute tutorial, and as well the harp book and the latest CD.
All are excellent and arrived extremely quickly after internet ordering!
The flute tutorial is well laid out and simple to follow and the CD’s that accompany the book are easy to listen to.
Interesting to note that the CD playing does not always exactly follow the book. Ms. McCormack’s playing is so good that you can see and hear where she does and does not follow the dots. And, more importantly, you can start to see how the magic of interpretation is taking place.
I have only one negative comment - the paper is shiny and reflects - making it hard to read when set up on my dining table.
Otherwise well worth the money and in my opinion, better than many of the other books that I have purchased.
Chuck
I wish I could get the CDs without having to buy the tutorial. I don’t play flute but really like her playing, so having 60± tunes from her would be great. You guys should plut the clips as MP3s online so that I can download them 
Does anyone have both June McCormack’s tutorial and Grey Larsen’s Essential Guide for Whistle & Flute? How do these books compare?
Alright! Alright, damn it! I ordered it already.
Geez!
djm
Azalin: You could buy the book/CD set, keep the CD’s and give the book to a deserving flute/whistle player …who supports, of course, les Canadiens. 
WilliamC: The Larsen book is much more ambitious - an attempt to be the Irish flute/whistle players’ bible. The McCormick book/CD set is much more manageable and, thus, accessible. Both fulfill their respective roles. You should have both.
cheers,
Paul
~newbie here. I’m very interested in her tutorial mostly because I love her style of playing. That being said, my only hesitation is not having a clue what tunes she uses on it. So many tutorials use primarily the most popularly known tunes. Anybody willing to post a list of tunes either here or maybe post it under recordings on the session.org site?
Welcome Stephen!
Mine is on its way. When it comes I’ll post a list, if no one else has yet. I’m looking forward to listening. One of these days I’ll play well enough to have a “style” that doesn’t involve constant repositioning, and I’ll be working towards imitating the sound of my favorite players.
Jennie
Just got mine. Lots of great tunes. The only (minor) stumbling block I have hit so far is her naming of the fingers: the names she uses suggest she is using a Cnat flute, e.g. she calls the top finger that plays C# on a D flute the B finger, but the associated notation indicates she is indeed refering to the C#, etc.
Good exercises. I will be working on these for a while.
djm
I’m not quite sure what you’re saying here. There is no finger that plays C# on a D flute; the fingering for that note is ooo ooo, i.e. no holes covered. If she’s calling the top finger of the left hand (assuming a right-handed player) the B finger, then that makes sense, as that’s the finger you place down to play B. Similarly, the second finger on the left hand would be the A finger and the third finger would be the G finger. You can extend this terminology to the right hand as an exercise.
There is an alternate terminology used by some players that names the fingers after the note that’s sounded when you lift the finger as you work your way up the scale. Under this terminology, I guess you could call the top finger of the left hand the C# finger since that’s the note that sounds after you lift it. Is that what you’re thinking?
I’m also in the camp that names the finger for the note that’s played when you lift it.
But I’m interested in the book. That shall have to go on my growing “to buy” list. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve heard of her playing.
Just got mine, I like the fact that she gets right to the point with not a lot of reading… It makes sence to call the L1 finger a B as when that finger is down on the hole it is a B. Now if you were talking about the tone hole, you would say that was a C# as you are thinking of it as a open hole.
I also got one of there CD’s “Draiocht” Very nice, Flute and harp.
might be the B finger but it’s the C# hole
I think calling it C# is really confusing, because when you put that finger down its a B. No sense in making it more complicated than it is…aren’t our lives complicated enough? 
Well, djm’s commentary still has me confused.
But I’ve heard enough good things about this set to go ahead and order it. Sounds like a good complement to the others I’ve been working from!
a maker names the holes for the note they vent…
the first hole is the C#…ya close it with the B finger…
then the next open hole is the B hole…ya close it with the A finger
are we confused yet? did that help?
Not a physicist (!!!) but the pitch of the note is defined by the length of the pipe. Shorter pipe, higher note. So if you have a finger down, the length of the pipe, and hence the pitch of the note, is defined by the first open hole. Put another way, your fingers close off holes in the pipe, but the first open hole sets the pitch, becauses it defines the length of the air column.
So in Denny’s example, with no fingers down, the first open hole is L1, and therefore that must be the hole that defines the length of the pipe for C#. If you put your first finger down (X00 000) to play a B, then for sure, the first finger is the one you put down to play B, but the the hole that defines the length of the pipe forthe note B is the second hole. After all, it can’t be the first hole, because that defined the length of the pipe for C#. Continuing this logic, it can be seen that the name of the note that describes hole is different than the name of the finger that covers it.
Hugh
High, I’m tryin’ to make this simple…
Thanks