Bill Ochs: The Bill Ochs Tin Whistle Handbook

Contents

• Lessons:
• How To Use This Book
• Getting Started
• First Notes
• Tonguing
• Three More Notes
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
• Practice Tunes
• Completing The Scale
• Sweet Betsy From Pike
• Lesson One: The ABC's of Music
• The Muffin Man
• Lesson Two: Another New Note - C Natural
• Oranges and Lemons
• Lesson Three: Quarter, Half, and Whole Notes
• Go Tell Aunt Rhody
• Lesson Four: Eighth Notes
• Lesson Five: Sixteenth Notes
• Lesson Six: Dotted Quarter and Half Notes
• Lesson Seven: Dotted Eighth Notes
• Lesson Eight: 6/8 Time
• The Cat's Jig
• Lesson Nine: Slurring/High E
• Lesson Ten: More Notes in the Upper Register
• Don Oiche Ud I mBeithil
• Tin Whistle Basic Fingerings
• The Tunes:
• Wallflowers
• What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor
• The Quaker's Wife
• Tim Finnegan's Wake
• Hey Diddle Dis
• The Bonny, Bonny Broom
• On The Road To Boston
• Lil Liza Jane
• The Wagoner's Lad
• The Eagle's Whistle
• The Parting Glass
• Drummond Castle
• Bonaparte's Grand March
• Morris Dances:
• The Blue-Eyed Stranger
• The Ladies Pleasure
• Idbury Hill
• The Boatman
• The Trip To Tunbridge
• Quick Scotch
• The Gay Gordons
• The Old Grey Cat
• Ruffy Tufty
• High C#, D and Third Octave Notes
• Pipe and Tabor Tunes:
• I'll Go and Enlist for a Sailor
• Constant Billy
• Fife Tunes:
• Governor King's March
• The Boston March
• The Girl I Left Behind Me
• Kemp's Jig
• The Helston Furry
• Fiddle Tunes:
• Over the Waterfall
• West Fork Gals
• Ornamentation in Irish Music:
• Slurring (Review)
• Cuts
• More Cuts
• Strikes
• Rolls
• Reels
• Rolls in Reels
• Short Rolls
• Crans
• A Note About Breathing
• Hornpipes:
• The Durham Rangers
• The Steamboat Hornpipe
• Poll Hapenny
• Scattery Island Slide
• Maurice Manley's Polka
• Ryan's Slip Jig
• Strathspeys:
• Brochan Lom
• Will You Go To Sheriff Muir?
• Hot Punch
• Balmoral Castle
• The Kilt is My Delight
• The Oyster Wives' Rant
• The Muckin'O' Geordie's Byre
• Old Cape Breton March
• Cutty's Wedding
• Cion A' Bhuntata
• Marching the Soldier Along
• Slow Airs:
• Casadh An Tsugain
• Uir-Chill A'Chreagain
• For The Sakes of Old Decency
• Jim Ward's Jig
• Rolling in the Barrel
• The Boy That Shaved His Father
• Johnny Mickey's
• Egan's Polka
• Pigtown
• The Little Bag of Spuds
• Sean Sa Cheo
• Appendix
• Transposing
• Fingering Chart