I received the MadForTrad Tinwhistle Tutor CDROM yesterday, and I’m quite impressed with the material. The tutorial is taught by Brian Finnegan, and has both beginners and advanced sections. It follows a natural progression from simple tunes with no ornamentation, and then the same tunes using various ornamentation techniques. All the tunes are shown in standard musical notation and have videos of Brian playing them. The multipart tunes have videos showing each part separately and then a combined video with some variations from the written tune. There are also videos demonstrating the ornamentation techniques.
This is very good for someone at the beginner level like me, and will still help later on when I’m ready for the advanced section. You can pick up a lot of subtle things watching the tunes and techniques on the videos. It’s like having Brian as my own private teacher. I would definately recommend this to other beginners.
Bob