Beginner

Hi All,

I bought my first tin whistle 5 days ago. The last time I have played an instrument it was the recorder and I was 13 years old and that was 15 years ago. I started off with Mary Had A Little Lamb and progressed from there. I have now played a tune called Schottische. I am not sure of its orgin. Anyhow I am hoping that someone could set me off in the right direction for sites that have sheet music and music to go with it (as I am still having problems reading sheet music) until my ordered tutor books and video tapes arrive.

Regards
Rishy

hi.welcome.i would like to help..but it’s too difficult for me to express it in english…my suggestion for u is to search through the forum for the topic ‘beginner’.i asked such questions a few months ago …i think u should be able to get some ideas…ok…???go to ‘search’ and input ‘beginner’

Hi Rishy,

Here are a few to be getting on with, there are more which I am sure others will point you to.

Whistleworkshop</a](http://www.whistleworkshop.co.uk/index.htm">Whistleworkshop</a)>

Brother](http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/index.html%22%3EBrother) Steves whistle pages

Micks](http://www.fingertrip.net/whistle/index.html%22%3EMicks) Virtual Whistle


Good luck,

Dave.

Christina,

Thank you for your suggestion. I went back through the list and found a lot of sites that I hadnt been to and other information that is so relevant to a new comer.

Dave,
Thanks I have already been to those sites and have started already some of the material listed at those sites. I guess I was just getting a little greedy for more. :slight_smile:
I am just counting the days until my tutor package arrives.

There is also Greg Mahan’s(The Wandering Whistler)site with sound files as well as dots and lines.

Cheers,
David

[ This Message was edited by: Feadan on 2002-01-13 10:31 ]

A couple of other sites with sheet music and/or tutorials:

http://www.sessioneer.com

http://www.frii.com/~ktcrumb/tunes/index.php3

Good luck! :slight_smile:

Thanks for the send-up David.

My favorite site to go to these days is the BBC’s Virtual Session.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/folk/acoustic_club/launch.shtml

You need Flash 5, and there aren’t many tunes, but they have actual session musicians playing sets, while displaying the sheet music. It’s a neat concept. Unfortunately, I’ve noticed that Gravel Walk has a few garbled spots. :frowning:

Greg

Greetings Rishy

I too am pretty much in your league here are a couple of sites that I have found pretty usesful

http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/

good for finger charts(?)

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html

loads of tunes to learn by ear or from sheet

http://www.blackflute.com/music

http://www.jigs-n-reels.com/

ditto above

All the best and enjoy

C

P.S. just checked out the BBc website…excellent site to play along to
thanx WW fro that one

C







[ This Message was edited by: Coleman on 2002-01-13 15:54 ]