The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox

The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox
ISBN-10
1610657284
ISBN-13
9781610657280
Category
Music
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2011-03-11
Publisher
Mel Bay Publications
Author
GREY E. LARSEN

Description

All the tools the beginner, novice, and intermediate tin whistle player needs in order 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 CD.

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