Music from First Lessons Tin Whistle

With Alternate Note-Naming Systems
from Around the World – Chords Included

By Grey Larsen. Downloadable PDF plus MP3s.

In Grey Larsen’s instructional book First Lessons Tin Whistle, some of the 23 tunes are presented in one notational style, some in another. There is good pedagogical reason for this. However, you may wish to have all the music notated in one of these methods:

• Standard music notation
• Tablature – a staff-based system for tin whistle and Irish flute
• Suit Code – a graphic shorthand for tin whistle and Irish flute fingerings using the suit symbols form the deck of playing cards

If you select the tablature or suit code version of this eBook, you’ll see the name of each note displayed. You may choose among six note-naming conventions:

• Latin Alphabet – popular in the United States and other countries
• Jianpu numerical system – popular in China and other countries
• Sargam – popular in India and other countries
• German “H” Nomenclature – popular among some musicians in Germany as well as in other countries that speak Germanic languages, such as the countries of Scandinavia
• “Movable Do” solfege – popular in many Germanic countries, in the US, and in many of the Commonwealth Countries, which are chiefly countries of the former British Empire
• “Fixed Do” or “Tonic Sol-Fa” solfege – popular in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, Romania, in Latin American countries and French-speaking Canada, as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Bulgaria, Greece, Armenia, Albania, North Macedonia, Mongolia, Iran, Taiwan, the Middle East, Turkey and Israel