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How to Play The Wind That Shakes The Barley on the Tin Whistle

G major · 12/8 · 200 BPM · Slide · Intermediate

The Wind That Shakes The Barley is a slide you can learn on the tin whistle, set in G major (12/8, around 200 beats per minute). It uses 10 distinct notes, ranging from G5 up to B6 — all within the D whistle’s range.

Slide in G major — 180 notes, difficulty 3/5.

The tin whistle notes for The Wind That Shakes The Barley start E D B G A B A B E D B G… Full sequence below.

The interactive sheet music shows a fingering chart under every note. Press Play this tune to play along while the app listens to your microphone and grades every note, or print a clean copy of the score.

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Tin whistle notes

On a D tin whistle, play The Wind That Shakes The Barley with these notes in order. Same letter in a higher octave uses the same fingering — overblow for the second register.

E D B G A B A B E D B G A B A A E D B G A B A B C D F# G E D B B D G G F# G A G F# G E D B B D G G F# G A B A G E D B B

Sheet music

ABC notation

X:22565
T:The Wind That Shakes The Barley
R:slide
M:12/8
L:1/8
K:Gmajor
|:e|d2 B G2 A B2 A B2 e|d2 B G2 A B2 A A2 e|d2 B G2 A B2 A B2 c|d2 f g2 e d2 B B2:|! d|g3 g3 f2 g a3|g2 f g2 e d2 B B2 d|g3 g3 f2 g a3|b2 a g2 e d2 B B2:|
% Source: https://thesession.org/tunes/13111 setting 22565 (traditional, public domain)

Fingering chart

The Wind That Shakes The Barley uses these notes on the D tin whistle: G5, A5, B5, C6, D6, E6, F#6, G6, A6, B6.

G5
A5
B5
C6
D6
E6
F#6
G6
A6
B6

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