Description
A simple and comprehensive guide for the complete beginner! With each note in every tune clearly diagrammed, the student can start to play the Irish whistle immediately and with confidence. The book includes ballads, slow airs, dance music and a selection of popular songs. This second volume features even more great tunes to add to the student’s repertoire.
Contents:
Irish Ballads:
- The Wild Rover.
- Planxty Irwin.
- The Shores of Amerikay.
- Roddy McCorley.
- The Minstrel Boy.
- I’ll Tell Me Ma.
- Sally Garden
- Love is Teasin’
- Dicey Reilly.
- The Galway Shawl.
- The Last Rose of Summer.
- Whiskey in the Jar.
- The Curragh of Kildare.
- The Golden Jubilee.
- The Spanish Lady.
- The Galway Races.
- The Coulin.
- Maid in a Garett.
- The Butcher Boy.
- The Bonny Boy.
- The Kerry Recruit.
- The Rising of the Moon.
- Si Beag Si Mor.
Hornpipes:
- The Boys in Blue.
- Dunphy’s Hornpipe.
- The Harvest Home.
- The Greencastle.
- The Liverpool Hornpipe.
Jigs:
- St. Patrick’s Day.
- Life is All Chequered.
- Haste to the Wedding.
- Smash the Windows.
- The Tenpenny Bit.
Reels:
- Miss McLeod’s Reel.
- Drowsy Maggie.
- The Merry Blacksmith.
- The Flowing Bowl.