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Over 70 Online Tin Whistle Lessons Now Available at OAIM

The Online Academy of Irish Music
www.oaim.ie

Calling all Tin Whistle enthusiasts – we now have over 70 whistle tutorials online. This equals 20 hours worth of top quality whistle tunes, tips and techniques! Whether you are a beginner or an advanced player, OAIM has a course for you:

Expert Whistle Skills #3 – Mikie Smyth
Learn how to apply uilleann piping techniques to the whistle–by the end of the course you will be back–stitching, double rolling and cranning your way through the tunes.

Expert Whistle Skills #1 and #2 Thomas Johnston
Learn 26 tunes that sit just perfectly on the whistle! In each tune Thomas focuses on variation, ornamentation and phrasing. Increase your repertoire and hone in on your whistle tricks and flicks with this course.

Whistle Basics and Whistle Foundations – Kirsten Allstaff
For those who want to get off to a good start–these are the courses for you! Whistle Basics starts with the simplest of scales and rhymes, but by the end of the Whistle Foundations course, you will have over 30 tunes in your repertoire–jigs, slides, polkas, reels and hornpipes and will also have a good grasp of the basic ornaments – taps, rolls, cuts and slides. Online Lessons also available for flute, fiddle, accordion, guitar, bouzouki, song, uilleann pipes, banjo, bodhrán, piano and concertina.

Join OAIM’s global community of Irish musicians by logging on to www.oaim.ie  and sign up today!

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