How to Play Down by the Salley Gardens on the Tin Whistle

Down by the Salley Gardens is a tune you can learn on the tin whistle, set in D major (4/4, around 72 beats per minute). It uses 6 distinct notes, ranging from D5 up to D6 — all within the D whistle’s range.

Canonical 17-note melodic line matching packages/audio/fixtures/whistle-2/macbook/slow-air.wav — the user's Phase-1 recording. Beginner-friendly slow air: single upward reach to d (D6), no ornaments, no accidentals.

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.