How to Play The Humours Of Ballyconnell on the Tin Whistle

The Humours Of Ballyconnell is a hornpipe you can learn on the tin whistle, set in A mixolydian (4/4, around 170 beats per minute). It uses 14 distinct notes, ranging from D5 up to B6 — all within the D whistle’s range.

Hornpipe in a mixolydian (240 notes after repeat-expansion).

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.