Intro to the Penny Whistle for the Visually Impaired
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The Penny Whistle is one the easiest instruments to play and yet it is still capable of performing amazingly complex songs. This course will get you started on your penny whistle path with over 40 professionally recorded demonstration and performance tracks.
In this totally Audio-driven course you will learn all the notes on the whistle, including the “half-holed” tones, along with over 20 songs. As you move through the course new techniques and terms are introduced and demonstrated so that by the time you finish the course you are familiar with trills, appoggiaturas, grace notes, and other ornaments.
Songs taught in this course are “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Jig #1,” “Jig #2,” “Waltz #1,” “Sweet Rosie O Grady,” “O Katy O’Neil,” “Amazing Grace,” “Cockles and Mussels,” “Dargason,” “Fool’s Jig,” “The Rose (Irish Tune),” “The Dear Little Shamrock,” “The Daughters of Erin,” “The Bluebells of Scotland,” “A Country Dance,” “O Danny Boy,” “Scotland the Brave,” “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” “The Flower of Donnybrook,” “La Russe,” “Newcastle,” “Eighth of January,” “Fasten the Leg in Her.”
This course uses no music or print and is taught totally “by ear!”