Okay, I am spoiled. I have forgotten what is was like before I became a proficient touch-typist. I have a fairly high WPM type rate now, sometimes exceeding 200 in a chat session.
So, I thought that maybe I would catch on to the tinwhistle faster than this, but, nope…the progress is slow and steady. I came from zero instrument experience.
Just felt the need to share.
Hi Chad,
Wiggling your fingers is one thing, wiggling them in a particular way is another, and in certain patterns yet another still. It’s not your fingers that need to learn things, but your brain. The first of course is to control your fingers. Like typing certain words, musical phrases will eventually come out automatically. Do you notice how you don’t think about the act of typing anymore? Just think the word and it pops out. Same will happen with notes and tunes eventually. But there’s a lot of muscle memory between here that there. The good news is it’s all fun along the way (if you let it be fun and don’t make work out of it.)
And it’s not an automatic switch from whistle to flute either, even tho the same fingers make the same patterns to make the same tunes. There’s different muscles required to play a transverse flute I guess. High to low whistle doesn’t have the same problem.
Welcome, and have fun!
Carey Parks
Miami Of Ohio Alum
Oh, and then there’s the whole problem of teaching your brain how to play music, and then how to play music in front of others. Another great adventure.
You may have slow fingers but look at poor Eric Clapton. He had slow hands and look what happened to him. 
Say, whatever did happen to him? 
Sandy
Clapton is still around and still playing. He has a book out called “Clapton: The Autobiography” which is interesting for those of us who survived the 60s with most of our faculties intact.
it’s equally interesting for those of us who survived the 60’s and 70’s with only some of our faculties intact.
be well,
jim
… faulties … falsies … factuals … no, I give up … what were we talking about?
“Most” … “some” … The word “all” seems to be conspicuously missing.
Hey, I can still spell “conspicuously”!!!
MT - That is just a claim, not a fact, as you could have spell checked it 
(which I often forget to to 
Paisleys, paisleys everywhere! Who?
Oh noes!
Colors coming out of his head. Wow!
Hey, I just had a flash:
Survival of the species is EVERYBODY’S business!
The obits in our local newspaper are a bit colorful. A man recently passed away and must have had a hand in writing his own obit. One line read, “I can’t believe Keith Richards outlasted me.”
That’s heavy, man…
Uh, sixties???
I remember the first half of 'em!
Getting back to the original question…
If you ran a search of this forum you’d find these words, or something similar, in several hundred places:
“To play fast, play slow.”
Use a metronome. Play each tune only as fast as you can play it accurately and with the rhythm. Use a metronome. When you can play the tune accurately at X bpm, bump up the metronome a notch and play at that speed until you can play it accurately. In place of a metronome, some people use recordings and slow down the recording with software. Either way works. I find the metronome a little more challenging. On a recording, I pick up cues as to how long to hold a note or when to come in; with a metronome you have to figure it out for yourself. On the other hand, playing with a recording shows you where the pros breathe and put their ornaments and articulations.
If you think back to learning to type, I’ll bet you didn’t start at 200 wpm!
I think he’s more of a cross-fippler…