How to Play The Butterfly on the Tin Whistle

The Butterfly is a slip jig you can learn on the tin whistle, set in e minor (9/8, around 200 beats per minute). It uses 9 distinct notes, ranging from D5 up to G6 — all within the D whistle’s range.

Slip jig in e minor — 146 notes, difficulty 3/5.

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.