![]() computer software to slow down the material by at least 50%.supplementary material to get even a little closer to making use of the ornamentation he whizzes through.a very thorough understanding of reading music.McCullough may well be respected and some people will get on great with this, but if you are anything less than an advanced player, you will need to do the following to get anywhere close to taking something from this book away with you: When you can no longer physically dance because the tempo is out of whack, it's just showing off in my opinion. It's also much too fast to dance to, which is the whole point of this music. It's so fast, it loses the beauty of any melody. You won't find Irish tin whistle played faster than it is on this course. I've been listening and loving Irish music (and playing it, on other instruments) for 25 years. I'm at the intermediate/advanced stage of the Mary Bergin whistle course, and I've not a hope in hell with this. Right from the first tune, you are an advanced player, no question about it. Then the student is plunged into the first piece. The quality of the recording is so bad, it's not crystal clear what he is doing. The speed at which the examples of ornamentation are given are extremely fast. Sometimes he says he's going to repeat them, and then he doesn't. Sometimes McCullough repeats things, sometimes he doesn't. You have to scan through the text on a page to get an idea of what you're about to listen to (picture 6). To say this is complicated would be an understatement. Nowhere during the exercises or the tunes does the book inform you right there of where you're at on the CD. ![]() There is a CD track listing at the very back of the book, which I only just found. There are cuts and warbling in the recording itself so that it's difficult to identify what is a double tongued note and what is not. Yes, but a CD burnt straight from that very hard-to-find, and probably very old, cassette tape. On the back cover we learn that 'previously available as a hard-to-find cassette, this edition includes a CD'. But this is the minor stuff.Īlongside this very dated print is a CD to match. ![]() Yes, the illustration is sufficient, just about, but we are 29 years post publication edition, and there is good reason to update. The author has been given free reign to not only pen in the music, but also to add his own illustrations, such as how to hold the whistle (picture 5). There are tunes that are placed high enough up on the page to add further notation, but instead two bars are transferred over to the next page (pictures 3 & 4). There are staves where there are little breaks and shifts in the lines (see picture 2). Titles for pages, such as 'Rolls' have been creatively (!) inserted in the middle of pages (see picture 1). In fact, so deep is the deep end that McCullough throws you in, you would have to be an advanced notation reader. If you are unable to read music, you will struggle massively with this. The sharp symbols are so thickly drawn, there is no space at all in the middle. The author has used a rather thick pen to make very intricate little symbols everywhere and as a result it's a very complex image to try to interpret. The music itself is all facsimile reproductions, which are not easy to read. The result is something that feels extremely dated. First published in 1976, it has had just one later edition published, in 1987. So, I shall post my own photographs here.įirstly about the printed book itself. There is no 'look inside' feature on any of L. Perhaps by saying that having spent an hour looking through this and trying to make sense of the jumble, this publication is now up for the 'Worst Publication. bfi)r' tv-7i|HW.\.EEO j ) t:Et*t:iFFL* L l i" 6 Ln.Good grief, where do I start. z =llt&Hffi 3,Ht€f4 t-/:7 = J -v >ffiIfrt I 6 t. t /=*75s^ttn,ti = >WEtaEEf?-rA H tlF.Tb D, &Eto tt Rf. NewScunds in BRASS f +x:- 2oo5 *f Effirt'o tceto) rH gfEJ tu tr Hrfur?fEflai Whistle While you Work Music by Frank Churchill & Larry Morey Arr.
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