This book is a comprehensive, detailed approach to playing Irish music on the tinwhistle. It has been written especially for new enthusiasts who live impossibly far from Irish musicians and are fretfully asking themselves, “Where Can I Ever Learn To Play?” It contains information on technique and style that more advanced players will also find useful. And, there are 72 dance tunes and airs suitably arranged for the tinwhistle, including some recently-composed pieces and several unusual settings of old standards that even the most jaded musical palates aflame with the insatiable desire for New Tunes will find exhilarating and momentarily satisfying.

An extremely well-written, thorough study into contemporary and traditional tinwhistle music and performance. Included are chapters on fundamentals, ornamentation and more. Includes an accompaniment CD

While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts, exercises, and technical essays for learning to execute ornaments in the in the Irish style. Through a wealth of hornpipes, reels, jigs, set dances, and slow airs and songs. This book focuses not only on musical accuracy, but stylistic authenticity as well. The companion CD contains 26 of the 101 tunes from the book.

(Waltons Irish Music Books). Everything you need to know about the Irish tin whistle from playing your first notes to advanced solos and ornamentation. Includes: fully diagrammed tunes for instant playing * graded scales and exercises * a wide selection of tunes specially chosen to demonstrate techniques and playing styles * a comprehensive guide to traditional ornamentation * key points throughout, highlighting essential aspects of tin whistle technique * a brief history of the Irish tin whistle and biographies of tin whistle legends * a collection of 99 great tin whistle tunes.

(Music Sales America). Perhaps the most challenging thing to master when learning to play traditional Irish music is the ability to play "in sync" with other musicians. This book gives you the chance to do exactly that. It is a collection of 125 tunes you're liable to hear at most traditional Irish music sessions, and comes with four CDs with simple practice versions and more embellished performance versions of each tune.

(Music Sales America). This step-by-step instruction book explains everything required to master the basics of tin whistle playing. This easy, straightforward approach to playing the penny whistle has countless diagrams and symbols and comes complete with a wide selection of simple tunes and traditional songs from around the globe. Contents: A Bunch of Thyme * A Donegal Mazurka * An Buachaill Caol Dubh * Andersons * Blind Mary * Come Back Paddy Reilly * Going to the Well for Water * Im Bim Babaro * Kathleen Hehir * Munster Buttermilk * Pilib an Cheoil * Saratoga Hornpipe * Still I Love Him * Sweeney's Dream * The Bag of Spuds * The Bantry Girls' Lament * The Blacksmith's Reel * The Boy in the Boat * The Boy in the Gap * The Cliffs of Dooneen * The Derry Air * The Old Shandy Bohereen * The Poor Irish Boy * The Star of the County Down * The Three Sea Captains * The Versevienna * The Wet December.