The new music is posted on both the Hymns page and the Teaching Resources page. It’s an easy tune to learn, and it pretties up with ornamentations very nicely, too!
I’ve also tweaked the look of the website recently.
With very quick turn around I might add. The transposition, editing out alto, tenor and bass lines, and adding tablature in less than one day. I have printed it out and am in the prcess of learning it. (That dratted half holed flat)
And the tunes just keep on comming! Thank’s Ron, “Whispering Hope” is just one of my many old favorites. I’ll start working on it today. I’m sure the half hole will be well worth the results.
It’s a great half-hole to learn, because it give you the ability to add a sharp/remove a flat from key of the whistle. I play many songs in A (3 sharps) on a D whistle (2 sharps). Likewise, you could play a song in E on an A whistle, etc.
Also, as I mentioned on another board, please don’t be shy about asking for me to tab a favorite of yours. I know tons of old hymns, but had never heard Whispering Hope. There are no doubt some that just won’t work on a whistle, but I’ll end up with a more intresting collection of tabbed music if it is more than just my own favorites.
Mark, thanks for these! Looks like I’ll be teaching some tunes to kids at our church. I hadn’t thought of some of these songs. Thanks for the inspiration.
Jennie,
That sounds fun! When will you be teaching, and how many kids?
If there are any special songs that would help you to have done in tablature, please let me know. I’m a lousy whistle-maker, and only a fair-to-middlin’ whistler, so tabbed whistle music is an area where I can contribute to the community. I am keenly interested in promoting the idea of teaching pennywhistle to kids, and helping make resources available. You can PM me, or I have an e-mail address on every page of the Whistle and Squeak website.
If you have any pictures when you are done, or just want to write up a short narrative of your teaching sessions with the kids, I would really like to post them on the website as an encouragement to others to give it a try. (bad, run-on sentence, sorry)