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I have one-hour tune teaching lesson recordings from Zoom available at:

https://michaeleskin.gumroad.com

More info on the lessons at:

http://michaeleskin.com/whistle

Taking things to the next level of insanity...

Using two WARBL USB wind controllers connected to a an iPad via USB Hub and the Apple USB3 Camera Adapter, playing my "Celtic Sounds" iOS app which provides the Uilleann pipes chanter, drone, and regulator sounds.

https://youtu.be/7vj4JQNJ0Nc

Testing some custom firmware for the WARBL USB wind controller that along with my "Celtic Sounds" iOS app provides virtual drones and regulators for students of the Uilleann pipes. https://youtu.be/sLcyUF9E5u8 For more info on the WARBL, please visit: https://warbl.xyz For more info on the...

Added on 10/7/21:

The Milliner's Daughter (reel)

Same here, taped my Burke narrow-bore brass high-D to fix the oxx ooo intonation. It also has the thumb hole which I taped over the day I got the whistle and never looked back. Interestingly, my Burke narrow-bore composite high-D doesn't have nearly as sharp as oxx ooo as the same whistle in brass. ...

For a limited time, I've decided to make all 19 of my individual one-hour phrase-by-phrase tin whistle tune lessons free/pay-what-you want. These include the audio, and for the more recent lessons videos of my weekly Zoom lessons, plus the PDF notation for the tunes. The tunes taught are: The Cook i...

I’ve updated all 51 tunes in my free, tip-supported, B/C bass/chord PDF tunebook to now include the bellows direction for each chord. It was a lot of work, but I think well worth the effort. Of course, in some cases your choice of bellows direction for some of the chords in the tunes may be differen...

Invitation to join The Ould Sod Virtual Session on Zoom Since March 2020, throughout the pandemic shutdowns, when there were no pub sessions, I’ve been hosting a weekly session on Zoom. You can learn more about it here: http://michaeleskin.com/session It’s an open session held weekly, the latest Zoo...

Invitation to join The Ould Sod Virtual Session on Zoom Since March 2020, throughout the pandemic shutdowns, when there were no pub sessions, I’ve been hosting a weekly session on Zoom. You can learn more about it here: http://michaeleskin.com/session It’s an open session held weekly, the latest Zoo...

Invitation to join The Ould Sod Virtual Session on Zoom Since March 2020, throughout the pandemic shutdowns, when there were no pub sessions, I’ve been hosting a weekly session on Zoom. You can learn more about it here: http://michaeleskin.com/session It’s an open session held weekly, the latest Zoo...

Found another 30 of my original Tradlessons whistle tune teaching videos from 2007-2008, made them available for purchase on Gumroad as Volume 2: https://gum.co/McEFN The tunes are: The Baltimore Salute (reel) Behind the Bush (slide) The Clougher (reel) The Coach Road to Sligo (jig) The Cock and the...

I've now made all 41 of my Tradlessons tin whistle tune teaching videos from 2005-2007 available for purchase as a set on Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/l/kNAEt In each video, I first play the tune up to speed, then slowly. Here are the tunes: Banish Misfortune (jig) The Banshee (reel) The Boys Of Mal...

I'm making all the recordings of my online tin whistle tune teaching events for newer players available for purchase on Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/michaeleskin Also linked to on my whistle teaching site: http://michaeleskin.com/whistle Each tune lesson is approximately one hour, taught in phrases,...

Happening again tonight, Monday, February 8th starting at 5 PM Pacific time!

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Meeting ID: 619 368 1854
Password: session

One of my pandemic projects has been writing up traditional Irish tune transcriptions for B/C box complete with bass and chord indications for players learning to play the bass side. When I started learning to play the basses on the B/C box, which has different notes on the push and pull on both sid...