I’m trying to film my first song in the whistle to post in my blog, but let me tell you…it’s hard!!! Whenever I play with the cam on I always get it wrong, be it fingering, tempo or whatever! Even when I’m trying to focus and feel the music!
Is it just me? I wanna hear your opinions!!!
I find that too. I think it’s the stress of holding the camera and trying to play at the same time.
Me too.
FWIW I think its because we want to record a perfect take of the tune, and that creates pressure. As soon as we mess up we give up, and loose momentum. When we are playing without the microphone we keep going and try to play it better next time round. I find that keeping the momentum works (except when the metronome is having a wonky day 
).
So if you have enough recording media why not just keep going? Use audacity to edit of the bits you do not like at the front and back. You could even cheat more than that if you want, but I could not bring myself to do so. You could even record your entire practice session. Get used to the fact that the microphone is on, and that you will only bother listening if you think you captured something good, and perhaps the pressure will go away and you will capture some of those magic practice moments when it all goes right. In my case that was depressing when I listen to the magic moments from the other side of the recording equipment. Ah well.
If you are playing a slow air you could leave a slightly larger space between phrases and give yourself an easier time editing. For reels and jigs and stuff you cant.
Oh, and something else that helped me:
Remember you are not going to make a perfect recording. Do not erase a recording simply because it is not perfect, erase it when you have a better one. When you are finished your session you have the best you produced that day. Tomorrow will be better…
That is how I go the recording of ‘Lament for Staker Wallace’. In a way I hope that when I listen to it again next year I will cringe at what c**p I polluted the web with. That will mean that I have improved.
Hope this helps
Just a small extra comment on that, Phill. You may well cringe when you hear it next year. But I’d ask you to do one other thing - when you listen to it next year, get beyond the cringeing and try to hear again what was good about it, because there are many nice things about that recording, and sometimes, when we progress, we leave behind some things that are good. Listening to old recordings of ourselves can be almost as instructive as listening to current recordings.
Yes, I now regret my over-emphatic choice of words 
, while you as usual are kind with yours.
A recording is good by subjective standards - it is a snap-shot of the point which a person has reached at a particular time. Each person strives to improve and it is the striving and improvement that should be our focus, not the absolute standard reached. Until we get to the heights… and maybe not even then. I suspect that the greats of the whistling world (or any endeavour) only get there through continuous, and continuing, self criticism. And the occasional pat on the back.
And recording yourself is a great way to focus the mind.
Ahaha this out: a best of on yesterday’s tries!
Be aware it’s ear damaging!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjbC4SfTYB4
Good luck!
Cheers!