Tin Whistle Week Five

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Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Irish
• music
• tin
• whistle
• fordham
• Jesuit
• celtic
• traditional
• feis
• dance

[RemiFrance]

Ryan, you really keep me going here. Without your lessons I would have seriously given up already. I'm gonna follow all of them until I can actually play some cool tunes! Thank you SO much for putting these videos online!

[o0dominic0o]

You might actually consider the Clarke Original. From what I gather it's a softer more woody sound (it has a wooden instead of plastic fipple ) it will have however more fuzz/wind... I don't know how to say. It's worth checking out. They're around 15 euro's.

[Crabsdonthum]

Great demonstration of the cut.

[tothryan405]

what tin whistle is that? it sounds great!

[muirny]

i kinda liked it better without the cuts :P very happy i learned it though!

[gxaxbxbxy]

I have a question about which fingers are used to cut. I never had a proper tin whistle instructor, so I use which ever finger is playing the note to cut, rather than using the ring or pointer finger. For example, when playing E E E in Star of the County Down, I use the middle finger of my right hand. Is this wrong?

[drefnoxa]

Is it different from key to key wich fingers are used to cut?

[PerfectSaga]

It sounds like one of those annoying dogs. All yappy and whatnot.

[TheCherokeeboy]

Thank you very much mr. Duns, you are the best teacher i ever learned from. Finally i'm able to play this song without mistake (i'm learning your week 8 video now). i posted my first video. Again, thank you very much! i hope i can learn from you in person

[Saphira4Christ]

I have a question... I'm trying to do the cuts but i can't with my ring finger, i can get it some what with my pointer finger.

[buzzy918]

@JohnNoZ35 it's not like normal music. Generally woth Irish music it diesn't matter where the cut goes as long as you can still distinguish the tune. However, i usually play my cuts before the beat for safety. If you have a really long note though, on say a G or something, you can add cuts and hits to your hearts content as long as you get to the next note in time. It'sall about musical interpretation.