The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780786687596)

All the tools the beginner, novice, and intermediate tin whistle player needs inorder to progress to a high level of competence in Irish music. Includes an"Orientation to Traditional Irish Music," which puts the music in context, with information on scales and modes, dance tune types, the historical roots of whistle playing, and advice for learning by ear. The book is full of thorough instruction, exercises, and musical examples: from holding, fingering, breathing, and blowing, on up to advanced ornamentation, phrasing, and variations. Features a simple and penetrating new approach to understanding and notating ornamentation that goes beyond any previous method. Also includes history and theory of traditional Irish tin whistle music. For those who don't read music, almost all the exercises and examples appear on the companion audio. Includes access to online audio.

Author: Grey E Larsen
ISBN-10: 0786687592
ISBN-13: 9780786687596
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2015
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.60d