Cooley's Reel played on Penny Whistle (Tin Whistle)

[newfelipin]

Could you send me the score please?

felipe.esparza.t@gmail.com

Thank... excellent song

[goedjn]

@newfelipin

You can find the sheet music of the melody at:

breizhpartitions.free.fr/en/do­wnload_score.php/102_Cooley%E2­%80%99s_Reel

[DIATOMUZIK]

Very nice tune, fantastic player ! ! ! 5 ***** for you, Christian, from France

[Mandolin1944]

Excellent! So great to listen to. I just learned the tune on mandolin -- and like playing along with your fine video here. But this morning I discovered that octave mandolin and whistle really go nicely together.

Do you happen to know if this tune is also called Joe Cooley's reel or is that something else?

[UnderdogTunes]

Can't get enough of this, listen to it 10 times or so every day.

[CreepyDollGirlx5]

I have this exact whistle. :D

I LOVE THIS SONG

[DinoDoesStuff]

@SilentPainTears go to thesession (dot) org and do a general search for cooley's - once found click on the sheet music tab. I know that it is there for sure.

[tagyoself]

hey can you send me some sheet music to this...iv been looking everywhere for them...?

[demarezmichel]

Beautifull You can ear our playing on Youtube : DEMAREZ

Michel

[pjmclemon123]

be my tutor?! :D

[hostroute]

@SilentPainTears I don't have the music any more, but it is in my head. The reason you can see a C written there is that that part was transposed for D whistle so the written D became a C. I play the whistle as a transposing instrument as it makes it easier to switch key of whistle.

[ferngarner1]

Thanks for your reply, and I will try that. Imagine balloons . . .

[ferngarner1]

How do you get your playing to sound so light? Is it just from playing for years and years? Any tips on technique? I loved the way you played Cooley's Reel. I have heard it played many times before, by many others, but never with such lightness. That's the only way I know to describe it.

[hostroute]

@ferngarner1 I think its the way I blow. I play the trumpet and one of the things we learn to do is increase the speed of the air going through the instrument rather than the amount of air. Its also about steady air flow. Imagine you have a baloon in front of you and you want to blow it to the other side of the room. Thats the way I am blowing rather than the way you would blow to blow out a candle which is short and aharp.

[Ganonman2]

@hostroute good man! ;)

[274vince]

@hostroute You also learn this if you play the flute, because you don't really need more air for producing a high sound but a stronger blow. :D *sorry for my english, I'm german ;P*

[novemberjam]

bought the exact same instrument but it sounds nothing like yours . what do you mean by 'blocking the gap below the windway' ? anyways you have bomb skills keep it up

[Epeetastic]

Did you do all the accompaniments?

[hostroute]

@Epeetastic I downloaded a midi file from the internet and edited it to change instruments and balance and remove the tune. Then I recorded that as one track and then the whistle as another track. Then I mixed it together.

[sullykoba]

we played the same version!

[connchisannchez]

How can I to get the accompaniment? It's great! I like it. You play beautifull!!

[19Laurent69]

Génial ! bravo Gordon et merci.

[sjeter61]

Wonderfully Good!!

[MissPickletoes]

Super,Gordon!

Do you have to take it apart to do the "tweaking" ?

[hostroute]

You need to take the top off but the clare whistles are not glues as they are tuneable so you just pull the head off to get into it.

[pastore0506]

Good foot-tapping stuff!

[hostroute]

Thanks, I am trying to prove my folk music credentials.

[JanAlbrecht]

Beautiful!