Chords for EASY - How to play tin whistle - YOUR FIRST LESSON - WHERE TO BEGIN

Hi, and welcome to my channel.
My name is Stephanie
And this is the perfect place to get started with tin whistle.
If you're brand new to tin whistle
Then this is the perfect place to start.
So to begin with you'll need a tin whistle in D
Tin whistles come in keys, which means usually somewhere printed on the whistle
It will say a letter for example D, or I have another whistle here that's in C
But I'm going to be showing you guys how to get started with a D tin whistle
Which is hopefully what most of you will have. _ _ _ _
So you're going to start with your left hand
And you're going to place your thumb on the back of the tin whistle
Almost in between the first and second hole
You're going to place your index finger of your left hand over the top hole
Your middle finger of the left hand over the second hole and your ring finger of the left hand over the third hole
So you're going to have a grab like this
Now it's not the
Fingertips, [Dm] it's the finger pads this nice fleshy fat part of your finger here
So make sure when you cover the holes one two and three
[G] You're using the finger pads with most flat fingers and not the fingertips.
Next we're going to take our right hand
And we're going to place our thumb in between the fourth and fifth holes on the back
We're going to take our index finger on the right hand and cover the fourth hole
Our middle finger on the right hand and cover the fifth hole and
Our ring finger on the right hand and cover the bottom hole the sixth hole
So you should have if you guys can see a grab [N] like this
That is how you hold a tin whistle.
Don't forget to use the fleshy pads of your fingers and not your fingertips
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So you'll see that most tin whistles have a plastic top
Some tin whistles also have a wooden block
But the same sort of thing applies so if you have a plastic topped whistle
You're going to be placing the back of it on the center of your bottom lip
Grab your whistle
And you're just going to rest it gently on your bottom lip not too far into the mouth like this
And not too far out just gently on the center of the bottom lip
You're then going to bring your top lip down and gently blow
_ [D] _ _
_ _ [N] Now you might get a different note to me, and it's likely because you're blowing a little bit hard
So just blow as gently as possible
With your fingers you don't want to be squeezing down really hard either.
It's quite a relaxed and soft grip
So just make sure that your fingers are naturally covering the holes if you grab too hard
It will strain your hands, and you won't be able to play for very long
So just nice and light nice and soft covering the holes and a very very gentle blow
[Gm] _ _ _ [D] _ _
So what I want you guys to do is practice getting that bottom note and this note on a D
Whistle with all those six fingers covered is actually a D
So just blow very gently and try and get a nice solid sturdy note
_ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] Now there are two ways you can blow through a tin whistle.
You can simply blow with a nice steady airflow like we just have and
_ _ _ to
Basically cut between notes you can simply stop blowing
_ _ _ [D] _ _
_ So all I've done there is blow three times with a little pause in between _
_ _ _ _ Another [N] technique is to use the tip of your tongue
And you can put the tip of your tongue to the top of your mouth and basically cut off the airflow coming out
So it's actually like saying _ _ _ _ _
Into the whistle tooting
_ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] So just practice trying the toot technique and the steady blow _ _ _ _
_ _ Okay, next up
I'm going to show you the next note on tin whistle and that is an E to get an E
We remove the bottom finger on the right hand and we blow gently
_ _ So practice getting a nice solid E
_ _ _ _ _ Next we've got F sharp, so if you remove the middle finger on your right hand
This is F sharp on a D whistle this is F sharp _ _ _
_ _ _ Should we keep going?
If you remove the top finger on your right hand
You can keep your thumb in place by the way the more fingers you move
The harder it is to hold the whistle so try and keep a few things in place
Now these three fingers down which is the top three holes on the left hand this note is G _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Next up we have a _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ B just one finger and _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Also, you can play C sharp now C sharp requires taking all your fingers off the whistle
So you may need to add a pinky on the bottom not covering any holes
Just on the gap at the bottom to hold on to your whistle.
So remember you can keep your thumbs on
_ And you can put your pinky on if you want to
_ _ _ _ So right away from the bottom.
We've got D
_ _ E _ _
F sharp
_ G _ _
A
_ _ _ _ _ and C sharp
_ _ On a D tin whistle you can also play a regular C a C natural and this is played by putting all three fingers
Down on the left hand at the top and then removing the top finger, so you've got an open hole and two covered
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_ _ _ Now once you've removed all your fingers from the whistle you've played the bottom or lower octave
Now tin whistles also have a second octave or an upper octave
Which means you can play those same notes again, but higher and to do that you need to blow harder
Which is why I was trying to get you to blow really really gently at the start
so if you put all your fingers back on thumbs back at the back and
You remove your top finger and you blow harder.
This is D, but in the higher octave
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_ _ _ You can also play E
By putting all your fingers down and removing the bottom finger
blowing harder _
_ _ sharp _ _ _
G _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ C sharp _ _
_ _ That's a high one.
I'll be honest.
I don't use that very often and you guys probably won't either
So that is your basic tin whistle lesson you start with all your fingers down for D
E F sharp G A
B
C sharp and then all back down in the top one off for the next D
E F sharp G
_ B
_ _ That was the very basic lesson on how to hold and how to blow your tin whistle best of luck happy whistling
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