It is so wonderful that they can actually be easy to play on one instrument! I just recently started learning the whistle quite seriously (after owning one for 6 years), I have previously browsed through brother Steve’s pages and learned cuts and taps, now I read through the roll page on some other whistle tutor website, and disappointed that they didn’t actually teach how to do them, I thought “Brother Steve is the best after all!!” and I tried his daah-blaah-blaah method and yeah, now I can play rolls not too badly, I can play the A part of Donnybrook fair. It’s wonderful! Now I just have to practice this everyday and hopefully go through the B part too. But I’m so satisfied!
Isn’t it cool when you add a new skill and you know who to thank! I’m glad that for folks who don’t have a local expert there are websites like Brother Steve’s, and this forum, and great books, which can help us reach those milestones.
Hooray for you, Ennis! 
And for Brother Steve!
Jennie
Isn’t internet a great thing? What would we do without it?
Spend more time with our families?
Yes! And with other musicians. Maybe we’d practice more. But as an instant resource, it can’t be beat.
I like to think of it as a prelude to actual face-to-face interactions. I’ve “met” a couple of folks right here and gone on to play music with them.
And for shy persons who want to advance themselves before they risk the session, or for isolated persons who want to make a future trip worthwhile, it sure is nice to have this “family” too.
Jennie
Yes. No matter how much we can agree with that we probably would spend more time with family and friends if we didn’t have the internet, Internet is a great resource and a great help for people, it makes things easier. There are many things I wouldn’t have learned without the internet, like playing whistle, certain mandolin things, I wouldn’t have found my fiddle teacher.. So the internet is not only bad.
I’ve gotten rolls and cuts down just by emulating spider stacy and some CDs I have…I have trouble with that finger tap though that adds a sort of rythem to the playing, any good exersises or songs that it would be useful in so that I could be edumacated?
I think that little finger tap is hard too, it’s just a matter of practice, I guess. Have you played Donnybrook fair? It’s a great tune to practice rolls if you’re new to it.