"Be Thou My Vision" - Irish Whistle

This is one of my long time favourite hymns. Since it's Irish in origin, I thought an Irish tin whistle would suit it well.

...Please don't expect much. I'm not trained or professional or anything like that; I just enjoy playing, particularily the melodies that honour the Lord! It eases my mind. :)
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Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.
Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;
Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;
Thou my soul's Shelter, Thou my high Tower:
Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise,
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

High King of Heaven, my victory won,
May I reach Heaven's joys, O bright Heaven's Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.

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• hymn
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• Be
• thou
• my
• vision
• Christian
• Jesus
• Spiritual
• music

[insx]

So, did you literally just try stuff and figure it out or did you use some books or videos or something?

[Chrishankhah]

@insx I've always played by ear. I had a book that came with the flute, and it taught me how to increase an octave (I don't know how, because it's hard to describe how you do it,) but I'm notoriously bad at reading music at the rhythm it must be played. I can read the rhythm or the notes, but not both at once. So I pretty much learned by ear. I'm not sure why that seems impressive to people; I'm personally impressed by people who can actually read and play music at pace!

[rdalemc]

BEAUTIFUL!! .. One of my favorite hymns...(and yeah, I'm a little jealous...or at least wish I could play that well, my whistling still sounds more squeaky) ... a) Are you self taught, and if so what books do(did) you use b) whose transcription are you using, c) what brand of whistle?

God Bless you, and keep using your talents for His Glory and pleasure, and you'll get a blessing as well.

[Chrishankhah]

lol, very much self taught. I can only read music for singing, and barely -- I can't think fast enough to read music and play in-rhythm. (I would have to look at each note and process it in my head and literally take hours.)

I'm not sure what you mean by transcription -- I'm just playing it as I know the song. :)

It's a feadog whistle from Ireland. I have two of the brand, a C and a D. I think this is the D. The C I bought straight from Scotland, and it's not painted like this one...

[Chrishankhah]

Anyway, thank you so much for the kind comment! God bless you. :)

[Conail23]

excellent! I really enjoyed tha.t

[Chrishankhah]

Thank you!

I am really sorry, I somehow hit "delete" on your comment on my other video rather than "reply." Youtube can be very unforgiving!

To answer your question, I am a Reformed Baptist, and actually American. I do have some Irish background and was raised Catholic, but like many in my private school class I fell away just as soon as I came in to the public school system.

I was saved about three years ago while reading the Bible, something I was never taught to do as a Catholic.

[sainglain]

Thumbs up really good. But in future try and video All your fingers (zoom your video camera out a bit) as some people try to learn by watching whistle videos. slán

[matthiax]

Well done! Beautiful, and honoring to God for sure.

[Anuin22]

Great Job Loved it!!

[cambriacity]

That was very nice!

[enslaved2God]

Beautiful. Hallelujah.

[ejcm55]

Im trying to learn this on guitar for bible class. You are an inspiration.

[Nickidewbear]

I got chills and tears.

[JohannesPardes]

II feel your heart in this! <3 I'm sure you rejoice the Fathers Heart when you play like this! keep it up! God Bless!

[4dojo]

cool work

[Darkmonk5555]

Thou ARE my vision. Sweetly played!