HOW TO READ TIN WHISTLE TABS | easy tin whistle playing
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- If you're new to tin whistle, don't know how to read music and want to start playing the tunes you love straight away - TIN WHISTLE TABS are the answer. Here's a definitive guide on how to read, create and customise tabs to suit whatever you want to play! Enjoy.
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00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Reading A Basic Tab
04:12 - First Octave Notes
04:54 - Second Octave Notes
06:24 - Half Holes
10:40 - Ornaments
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Great tutorial, I'm about to learn how to play, i'm sure my neighbours are going to love me. 😂
I don't know why I get progressively quieter in this - sorry folks! :D haha. You'll have to adjust that volume button near the end. x
Must be Friday the 13th vibes 😅
Such a well done tutorial! Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
This was very informative, I didn't realize you could make so many notes on this whistle. Well done! Glad I subscribed.
I'm with Federico Matarazzo, was looking forward to seeing CutiePie as the teacher, Though I really enjoyed this reminder thank you.
You are a wonderful teacher, thank you so much.
Actually combining tabs and sheet music is most conducive to learning in my limited experience
Hey Stephanie ( cutie pie ) I'm new to the tin whistle but play a multitude of instruments including Guitar (my main instrument ) bass, mandolin, ukulele violin, drums , harmonica, lap steel ,cajon , bongos. But would like to say a big thank you for all your tutorials and fantastic channel. I'm sure I will be able to to learn with your help and add a new instrument to my ever growing list.and as I have a home studio hope to record a backing track for my heart will go on and play the tin whistle classical and electric guitar for the main tune, so with the help of all your great tutorials i will be able to post my version as soon as I can. Thanks once again best wishes from Liverpool uk (and you sure are a cutie pie , thank you)
nice! I just bought my first tin whistle, and I'm going to learn how to play it, once I do it I will record songs to my youtube profile and I'll make tutorial videos in portuguese because there are few videos about it.
Always a pleasure.
Very helpful tutorial. Thank you!
Nice details! You are a great teacher!
Two thumbs up. Have a great weekend.
Thank you so much for your videos!
thats cool. the fact its so simple makes me want to pick up a whistle
Thanks your video's are easy to understand i m from belgium but have a chronic diseas i love scotland and ireland very much i can not do many things but know i like this so much you are the best from UA-cam thanks this means a lot for me 😊
Thank for help always good x
Właśnie zaczynam przygodę z tym instrumentem i muszę powiedzieć, że jest Pani najlepsza 😁❤️ Pozdrawiam z Polski 👋
Thank you. Very helpful for me.
You are a great teacher :)
Complete beginner in fact im waiting for my tin whistle to be delivered today its in D so i cant wait to follow this and get playing it 😁
A good teacher.
Great video thanks
Very usefull !
Hi CutiePie,
I haven't learned any instruments. After seeing your tutorials for beginners, let me make up my mind to learn tin whistle and follow your tutorials, thank you sooo much😘.
I really love John Ryan’s Polka in Titanic😍.
Could you do this tutorials ? Thank you🙏
Thank you. I hope you enjoy it! I'll certainly add your request to my to-do list 😊
I love this song too !
Full song of the name is "An Irish Party in Third Class"
Thank you this is very interesting for the new players and for the "old" players a very awesome "Wiederholung" (?)
Greetings from Germany👍🎶
Thank you. I think the word you are looking for is 'reminder' :) xx
@@CutiepieTinWhistle oh yeah, thank's.
I love you whistling it is great,. I am sitting in the wheel chair now, but with my whistle I can fly. Thank you for your teaching.
Came here for the thumbnail and stayed for the amazing lesson.
thank you
I have some songs suggestion! The first is atually is a netflix show, that has such amazing tunes: Dark Crystal, Age of Resistance ❤ and the second, is Monster Hunter Word! It has a beautiful theme!
Thank you for this tutorial !
Matthew 11:28
Excelente 👏👏👏
I would to learn “ Just A Closer walk with thee” it’s my favorite gospel song
This video is just amazing! I find it very useful. Thanks! 🤗 And I really love your accent! Where are you from? {Sorry for my English}
Came here to learn tin whistle.
Occasionally I play attention to the lessons.
I've often thought how useful it would be to have an indication of how long to hold the notes for included in the tabs. (And I've added them myself, too.) I have some difficulties remembering tunes without words, and knowing the length of notes goes some way to make it easier.
Maz Kraut I wonder if you could redo a tab using a color key for length of time. Ie., black, say 2 seconds, blue, 3 seconds, green, 4 seconds, and so on.
@@sunnycharacter that might work. but I just add little dots . . . . more dots more time
Some whistle music is written with traditional notation, and then the whistle tabs below each note. That’s kind of the best of both systems.
Good ideas! I've written numbers under the tabs for counts, but Gavin Anderson, I agree, having both notes and tabs is best! I'm even learning to play from notes at the moment, but just for the key of D, which doesn't get me all that far! :)
Your on the internet. Every song you might want to learn is here. So with regards timing, just record it and play along with it until you get it right. Singing helps with timing as well. The most important thing is to be able to sing along with the song note per note perfect before you even pick up your instrument. Trust me, this works and is by far the most natural and easiest way to learn any instrument.
Thanks.
The lovely Stephanie 😍...
Hi Cutie Pie. Thank you so much for all your tutorials- they have been such a blessing to a newbie like me (just received my tin whistle). I was wondering whether your tabs were available to download and print? I couldn’t find any links in the description. Really hoping with much practice, i can become a beautiful player like you. Thank you for blessing us all on UA-cam with your skills and talents xx
There's a link to a printable tab sheet under each tutorial 😊 you can find my most recent ones on my website too:
www.tinwhistletabs.wordpress.com
Heh CutiePie ! At 3.36 you state 5 white holes when I think you mean 6 ... thanks for all your uploads and hard work. Jay
I was a little confused at the part where it showed F F# D F# F instead of F F# E F# F, but then you played and I was like, oh! Okay, editing mistake XD
Same, it got me confuse, I was like, I can't be that bad at blowing lul
Hey! Soft request, but can you please do a tutorial on the Lullaby song from Carnival Row, please! It's the Lora Lie Lo song and it's suuuuuch a good show!!! Thanks!!😄😄😄
Thanks
Oh wow, thank you so much 💚💚💚 I really appreciate your support! xxx
Thanks much! -- if you want something that will tie your brain a bit in a knot (for awhile) - you can use whistler's tabs with your ocarina or recorder if that's all you've got in addition to playing by ear and sight. . ;)
I should a few things. Learning the tune from a whilstler on a whistle is best. Then if you want to learn the tune on another instrument, for the sake of argument a Recorder, and you have D whistle Tabs and say a C recorder the mapping of holes from whistle to recorder is not 1-to-1. The recorder's range is about the same. You will have to change a few of fingerings in the scale for the other instrument.. for example B,A,G, E, D are same and F#, C, C# D, are different.
@@stevewolfe3214 I used to play the Recorder at school a long time ago, so I bought a new one to give it a go. Could not get my head around it. So used to playing the whistle now.
Can you do a tutorial for At last i see the light from Tangled?
Video #02: watched!
Hello!!!
Best regards from Brazil!
Please, could you play Amazing Grace on Low D?
Hey, i've been with you for a while, please do fiesta pagana of mago de oz, please, it would mean the world, there are a bunch of videos posted, but you have an amazing way to teach and to make it easy for everyone.
Keep the great work, love your videos
Send me a link to s song you like, I'll take a look 😊
@@CutiepieTinWhistle OMG OMG OMG, you answered, ua-cam.com/video/UAoJZ74M3LM/v-deo.html
Here it is, holy cow thank you!!
PD: English is not my mother tongue, so i still struggle a bit with it
useful
very
You look beautiful and you teach, play beautiful ❤️
Mine is 7 holes... 😏... 😁 Thank you for sharing😍
Amazing tutorial. Do you have tutorials on Tin whistle type C?
I wanted to try song winter bear by V.
You can play anything on a C whistle. This might help explain how:
ua-cam.com/video/SRgKbwRzwAA/v-deo.html
Wow you made new passion to learn wisthle , pls guid me what book to buy and what brand and model to buy please 🙏
Get a Clarke Sweetone in D to start with. You don't need a book, you'll find everything you need here on my channel, and others 👍
@@CutiepieTinWhistle thank you ordered one 🙏
Thanks Akka
Just started my tin whistle journey and your videos are very helpful. Wondering if the octaves are also indicated on some tabs by upper and lower case letters? Have seen this on many songs as opposed to the+ symbol. Is upper case normal or higher octave
Hi, I hope you enjoy playing!
If you're using just notated letters, they can sometimes be the other way round. Lower case letters are often upper octave and capital letters are lower octave. I found that confusing and counterintuitive 🤣 especially considering it's not ALWAYS this way. That's why I like to try and add both the tab with a+sign and letter below (lower case lower octave, upper case upper octave)
3:36 - s/b 6 white holes :-)
thanks ! there isn't a better way to learn tin whistle from Iran :)
Gosto muito de flauta
Hi CutiePie . . . . Thank you so much for this tutorial . . . I always enjoy yours videos. A question: Is there a difference between playing a tin whistle and a 6-hole Native American style flute? ( is the tablature basically the same?)
yes :)
You wouldn't be able to use tin whistle tabs and follow them on a Native American flute as the notes are in different places on the two instruments. Native flutes use different fingerings, and don't really play in a second octave. You'd need Native American Flute tabs, but the process of reading them and how they work is the same 😊 if the Native flute tab shows you the covered dots, you still cover three holes.
@@FiddlingwithmyWhistle native flutes have notes in different places to tin whistle, so I wouldn't say they're the same. You wouldn't be able to follow tin whistle tabs on a Native flute and play the tune correctly.
Well . . . Because of your wonderful and tireless dedication to advancing the art of tin whistles, and for being so charming while you're educating and motivating us, I'm now going to get my first tin whistle and continue to follow you on UA-cam. Thanks again for being such an entertaining angel of music. ;)
Could you teach/define the song from Shrek forever after {shake your groove thing} from the group - Peaches & Herb!
I just found your channel about a month ago and must agree with others that you are very good and informative for beginners. One question I have: do you blow a bit softer when covering six holes than covering just one hole? I find that if I’m blowing the same for all holes covered as for none; that I will get that shrieking sound coming out instead of a smooth air flow.
You'll need to adjust your airflow slightly for each hole you uncover, yes, and that'll be different for different whistles too. Just keep practising though, it'll come naturally the more you play and the more you get used to the whistle 😊
@@CutiepieTinWhistle
Thank you!
Hi, I really like your channel. Its the best one for beginners. I wonder if it is possible to add a faster tutorial to the video for advance players. Songs are very nice but slow tutorials are not very useful for experienced players😅😅
Here's a few more advanced tunes for you to try 😊 there are others on my channel too. Have a scroll through, hopefully you'll find something suitable. In most cases, tutorials are slower than the actual speed of the tune in order for viewers to be able to learn and process the information. Most people can't learn from a full speed play through only, though every one of my videos features a slow tutorial section and a full speed play through section a little further on. Perhaps it would be worth skipping through to that? 😊
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Hello Stephanie. May I ask whether is a particular website you recommend for downloading tin whistle tab sheets? I have found some but often they do come with a good price tag even for tunes with no existing copyright anymore.
I just make my own :) you can download all mine for free. Links in every video description. x
Have found a bunch on Pinterest, including many in a whistle tab & sheet music combo format, which I find particularly helpful when attempting to learn songs that I don't already know 'by ear'
Is there software available one can buy to put on a computer to print out tab Irish Music?
Stephanie. I'm following you for a long period. I have a suggestion for you to start a paid course on how to learn Irish tin whistle in udemy. I will be happy to buy your course for a fee. Please consider this. In case if you are taking courses over Skype, share information about that in a separate video. Trust me, you will be surprised with the amount of fans you have got. Thank you for being an inspiration. Love, Muthu.
I started a Udemy course once 😊 I'll certainly consider it. Thank you for your lovely comments and continued support! x
What does a down arrow at the top on the hole chart mean?
👏👍 Hi Stephanie 2:27 It sounded like you were going to play Pachelbel’s Canon on D Major. 😉 ♫
It's on my to-do list 😊
@@CutiepieTinWhistle 👍 😊 ♫
The G, A, and B on a Tin Whistle, are in the same Place on a Recorder.
Sou do Brazil 🇧🇷
My first instrument: kazoo.....
So I have a question:
My (highly limited) musical background was on the piano. When I learned to play I just had to make a mental connection between a note on the sheet music scales and a hand/finger position on the piano. But this type of note-to-fingering connection doesn't work if I start dealing with whistles in different keys since the same finger arrangement plays different notes when used on different keys of whistle. With sheet music I would have to convert every note from the page to the correct finger positions for the current whistle, meaning I would have to stop and think about every note before I could play it. Something which definitely wouldn't work when actually trying to perform an arrangement on a whistle.
This leaves me at rather a loss for how musical notation is handled for whistles though. Is it just common practice to convert standard sheet music over to whistle tabs for a given key of whistle, and then you just read tabs when performing? Or is there some special notation system used for the various different keys of whistles?
It's more difficult with whistles than with a recorder which is usually in C or F. So you gotta learn only two fingerings for a note. On a whistle you gotta learn the fingering for every whistle. :) Same as with a guitar when you use a non-standard tuning. With whistles you usually use normal notation in G clef (so you'll be spot on with a low D whistle and play an octave higher than noted on a high D). But you just gotta learn the fingering depending on the key of the whistle. It's less difficult than it sounds as the sound does progress identically on the whistles. So when you have your base note and a good ear, you'll just know which fingers to lift and which to put down. I'd recommend starting with a D whistle. You can switch to low D with the same fingering. And you can get many accents with half-holeing. So you can play in the key of C with a D whistle once you worked out how to get the F instead of the F sharp or the C instead of the C sharp. It's just easier to pick up a C whistle as this requires no half holes. And yes, you'll have to learn to put all fingers down and get a C instead of a D - so to get a D, you need to do lift a finger - reprogramming muscle memory. :) That's why - when you're strarting out - it's not a good idea to switch the key often. Stick to one and master it - then learn a new key.
This is usually how we get around it: ua-cam.com/video/SRgKbwRzwAA/v-deo.html
I have an Irish tin Whistle, what difference if any is there from your Whistle?
I'm playing the same instrument 👍 no difference at all.
Why are the notes grouped together in the way they are?
Easy enough to adapt the tab to show rhythm, I do this with uke tabs all the time, but the trouble I am having with whistle is the ornamentation because I can't sort out easily which is the melody and which is ornament
Two questions:
• does anybody ever mix tabs with sheet music, to help give the full musical picture?
• why can't I shake the feeling that there's sometimes a hole on the back of the whistle? (if it's never there, then what am I thinking of?)
Tabs are what they are. using them with sheet music will help you learn the notes on the score. As for the hole on the back .. Too much recorder playing ? :)
Yes, loads of people 'stamp' the tabs on sheet music...
and my Bagpipes have a thumb hole on the back :)
I don't use either 😆 I just write some letters down on a piece of paper. I've found that writing tabs onto sheet doesn't help me learn the sheet notes either, because I'm not looking at them, I'm looking at the tab...
But it all depends on your own learning style, time, patience etc. Lots of people find success mixing the two 😊
And yes, it's a recorder that has a hole at the back. You can also find recorder tabs that indicate this additional hole.
Many of us started with record (for me, in 4th grade), and so, have a hard time shaking that idea of the hole on the back.
I’m in a bagpipe band, and the chanter for the pipes also has a hole on the back. A lot of us bagpipers also play the whistle and it can be hard sometimes to switch between the two.
Incidentally, the fipple flute, which family the tin whiste,is part of, originally had TWO thumb holes on the bottom, and FOUR finger holes on top.
I just got my feadog.. may I ask why the holes are all in different sizes?
The hole size and position on the tube (body) affects the pitch of the note that's played when you cover/uncover it. So when the whistle maker is constructing the whistle, the holes are drilled to whatever size makes that particular note play in tune, in that position on the whistle 😊
What does a down arrow at the top of the tab mean? Lower octave? But isn’t the lower octave just “as is”?
I've not seen a down arrow on a tab before. It might indicate the top of the tab (where you blow) if it was at the start, or it could be a custom symbol for lower octave, or a specific ornament.
@@CutiepieTinWhistle thank you for your response. I hadn’t seen it until just now. Sorry-I’ve asked this on several of your videos! 😬 I noticed the down arrow as the first note of the “Lounge Bar” music you played on one video. I loved the piece! Would love to try to play it!
@@jcarolblair5614 I don't have a downward arrow on my tabs for that tune...
Are you playing from sheet music or from tabs?
If you're inputting sheet music intro something that's generating tabs for a D whistle, and the notes you need aren't available on a D whistle, you might see a downward arrow. This is just to indicate the note is lower than what's available on your instrument, and it would be better to play the tune on a whistle on the correct key.
You can play a transposed version of any tune using my tin whistle tabs. You can use my tabs to play on a D whistle by simply playing what's shown on your D whistle. You'll play a version of the tune that's higher than the original - the transposed version.
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Love this! At 10:48 the fingerings don’t match what was played.
I don't play anything at 10:48, it's the end of the video...
@@CutiepieTinWhistle yeah, I don't know what time it was, but I remember thinking the audio did not line up ;0
@@CutiepieTinWhistle Hello, I think it's at 7:00 : 6 holes but you play 5.
(PS : I thank you for your videos !).
For C# - no holes covered - isn't it just easier to leave the lowest finger in place over the last hole to hold the whistle in place rather than move it? I can't discern any difference in the note played in this way.
If that's easier for you, do it 👍
I see your Using your Clark Sweet Tone, or is it Spelled Clarke.
It's Clarke, but they're great whistles for beginners. So easy to play. I still use my Sweetone often when I play slow airs or certain songs that sound better to me on the quieter whistle.
@@sahamal_savu Thanks So Clarke is Spelled with an E, and Sweetone is one word like Taekwon-Do, Thanks for the Info, and Corrections.
Yeah, Clarke Sweetone. I have the C and D. they are Fun easy to play whistles for the price.
Nice I have an acorn pennywhistle in D, it's a nice Whistle, I'm working on Concerning Hobbits, the Shire theme from LOTR.
I always recommend Clarke Sweetone as a first whistle. Can't beat it for beginners 😊
I see you Spelled Colored with a U, here in America we lost the U somewhere L.O.L, there's an episode of an old 80's T.V. Show I use yo watch I think it was Danger Bay, Two of the Main Characters were Playing Scrabble, and the Girl Spelled Colour, The boy Challenged saying it's Not the Correct Spelling, But I knew that in England it was, it ended out with the Girl getting to keep her Points.
Yeah, I have never worked out why... you lost the u. but it's sometimes quicker to write it that way :)
@@FiddlingwithmyWhistle, Oh is that where it went, it's Because teachers in America are Lazy with Writing,Thanks.
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Coloca legenda em português por favor!
Você quer legendas em inglês? ou legendas em português?
You want English subtitles? or Portuguese subtitles?
@@FiddlingwithmyWhistle em português
what does # mean?
That is the answer that I am looking for in the comments section as well....
@@micahreynolds3450 i think i figured it out after reading some sites and it says # means to use more force, aka its a sharp note
@@Gronola the # is the symbol for the word 'sharp' - but this doesn't mean you need too add more force, F sharp or (F#) is simply the name of a note. F# is inbetween the notes F and G. Tin whistles in the key of D also play the note C# (C sharp#) This is the note inbetween C and D :)
You can see a full range of notes here: facebook.com/WhistleTNT/photos/pcb.340685286431889/340684809765270/
I can't do C#:'3
Sent me one please.kkkkk
my sound is diffrent
Are you playing a tin whistle on a different key? I'm playing a D whistle 😊
If you're playing the same key, it could be that your whistle is a little sharper or flatter than mine 😊 that will change as you okay and the whistle warms up.
Third possibility is that you could be blowing too hard and hitting the high notes instead of the low notes.
Reading tabs is no problem, but lacking sheet music for the timing always kills me as a drummer turned whistler.
It seems playing flute is much easier than playing guitar
You ain't whistling Dixie??
Uhh...no?
7:12 You didn't play the D!
Yup, that was an 'E', I realized that, too. Does it matter? Is that just a small mistake that we shouldn't care about?
I actually know how to read whistle tabs, just came here for the teacher-thing-in-the-thumbnail...got disappointed :(
Serves you right for being a perv 😜
@@CutiepieTinWhistle you are most certainly right! I shan't indulge in "you-know-it's-clickbait" thumbnails, and click only for the content (as usual) 😭
LOL how could you be disappointed here ?
Thank you, miss cutie Pie :D. You are a charming woman as well