A New bard in town...

Hello there, and welcome to The Whistler Bard Blog!

I'm a newcomer to playing the Tin Whistle and the Irish flute, and i decided to make this blog as a way to post my progress concerning the learning of these two instruments.

I play electric bass (not too well, honestly), but i wanted to move to something simpler, easier to carry and that i could practice and play everywere...since i love Celtic music, what better to start than the whistle? About the flute i just love the sound, and since it's pretty similar to the whistle, i though i should give it a try too.

For me it's a new world, no hard-cases that don't fit the trunk of my car, no cables, no amps weighting a ton... Let's see how i'll manage!

So i searched the net for whistles, saw videos, read articles and i finaly bought a Tin Whistle and an Irish flute. This all happened in a couple of days, and i'm still anxiously waiting for them in my mail box. After that being done, i decided to learn how to read music sheets. First of all it's a thing i wanted to learn since a long time ago, just never tried really hard. Second of all is that most of the songs for the whistle are in that format, so if i want to try it, i should know how to read the sheets.

For the first post this is huge, and i sincerely doubt anyone will ever see it, but anyway... next post i'll give you some sites to start from if you want to learn the whistle and flute magic.

Cheers!