This is Mike Rafferty’s setting of this popular reel.
Category Archives: Tunes
5 easy Christmas songs for tin whistle, suitable for beginners or kids,or anyone who just wants to play Christmas Carols! From the collection Tin Whistle for Children Volume 1. With sheet music, whistle tabs and audio recordings (I play each tune with & without ornamentation, on a D tin whistle). Download link to the sheet music at the end of the page.
The songs:
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
Away in a Manger
Ding Dong Merrily on High
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
Jingle Bells
Here are 5 easy tin whistle tunes for beginners, complete with sheet music, whistle tabs and audio files, from the Tin Whistle for Beginners book & audio collection. The tunes here are all accessible to beginners, although it may take some time & practice to get them up to speed! I play them slowly in the audio files, both with & without ornamentation. Download link to the sheet music pdf at the end of this page. The tunes are typical irish dance tunes : jigs & reels, with a slide and a march.
The tunes :
Around the World for Sport (Reel)
Brian Boru’s March
The Dunmore Lasses (Reel)
Geese in the Bog (Jig)
O’Keefe’s (Slide)
Reel on Irish wooden flute. A tune from Co. Roscommon flute player Josie McDermott.
Rolling in the Barrel (Reel) – played on tin whistle. Audio recording from the book Irish Music – 400 Traditional Tunes
We Three Kings – Christmas Carol on Tin Whistle from the book Tin Whistle for Children Volume 1 Sheet music & whistle fingering guides available in the book.
Jingle Bells – Christmas Song on Tin Whistle from the book Tin Whistle for Children Volume 1
My Own Dear Galway Bay, Irish Song on Tin Whistle. From the book Tin Whistle for Beginners Volume 1; whistle tabs and sheet music available in the book.
High Germany – Irish song on tin whistle from the collection Tin Whistle for Beginners Volume 1. Sheet music and whistle tabs available in the book. More tin whistle tunes and songs for beginners
Easy tin whistle song for beginners I’ll Tell Me Ma from the book Tin Whistle for Beginners Volume 1. Sheet music with whistle tabs available in the book.