How to Play The Parting Glass on the Tin Whistle

The Parting Glass is a tune you can learn on the tin whistle, set in D major (4/4, around 84 beats per minute). It uses 6 distinct notes, ranging from F#5 up to D6 — all within the D whistle’s range.

29-note single-pass melody in D major. Range F#5-D6, entirely first-octave. The |:...:| markers indicate a repeat — expectedSequence tracks one pass only, so students playing the repeat will see the cursor stop at the final D6 while they play through a second time. The user's ~71s ornamented performance lives at packages/audio/fixtures/whistle-2/macbook/jig-fragment.wav (legacy filename, actually Parting Glass — 82-note fixture sequence has a wider range with ornaments).

The interactive sheet music below shows a fingering chart under every note. Press Practice to play along while the app listens to your microphone and tracks your place in the score note by note, or print a clean copy of the score and fingering reference.