The Toolbox Tune Collection

Description

The Toolbox Tune Collection is comprised of written transcriptions and audio recordings of the 18 traditional Irish tunes referred to and excerpted in Grey Larsen’s book The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox. It also includes introductory and explanatory text.

Grey’s transcriptions include his suggested ornamentation and breathing places. The recordings are of Grey playing the tunes, as notated in the transcriptions, on tin whistle.

The text and transcriptions take up fifteen 8.5 x 11 inch pages.

The downloadable PDF product contains the following:

• One zip file containing the following:
• The transcriptions and text, as a PDF file
• Recordings of Grey playing these tunes on tin whistle, as MP3 files

The physical book product contains the following:

• One booklet of 15 pages
• The transcriptions and text
• Recordings of Grey playing these tunes on tin whistle, as a free downloadable zip file.

The tunes included in The Toolbox Tune Collection are:

DOUBLE JIGS

1. The Blarney Pilgrim
2. The Cliffs of Moher
3. The Frost Is All Over
4. The Monaghan Jig
5. Old Joe’s Jig
6. The Rose in the Heather
7. Tom Billy’s Jig
8. Tripping Up the Stairs
9. Whelan’s Jig
10. Willie Coleman’s Jig

SINGLE JIG or SLIDE

1. The Star Above the Garter

SLIP JIG

1. Hardiman the Fiddler

REELS

1. The Banshee
2. The Drunken Landlady
3. The Gravel Walk
4. Lad O’Beirne’s
5. Roaring Mary
6. Tuttle’s Reel