The initial 10 lessons are the proverbial beginners foundation to whistling in Bill Ochs tutorial. I really like "John get your hair cut" with a 2/4 slow beat it really helps you articulate those 4 X 16th notes and it's and easy tune to carry. "Katie Bairdie" and "The Lewis Bridal" also have essential melodic/rhythmic content that I have referred to the content of these 3 tunes numerous times in the past few months and will probably be my helping tunes for a long while to come.

There has been a shift for me in the past few weeks to less of the foundational tunes other than for reference and more technique practice with varying scales for warming up the whistles and more practice/playing on actual tunes witch allow gradually more use of cuts strikes and rolls. Is this path similar to you other new whistlers? How about practice time? I got a shock recently when I discovered on checking time that I had passed a whole hour on just one tune. Could better time management present better results?

What I refer to is diminished returns where in for example, my hour long song practice I may have had as much progress at 15 minutes of practice as the hour. Then use the remaining 45 minutes for another 3 tunes at 15 minutes practice for each ? I practice (2 hours,+/- half hour) every day varying with every other day stints as and when everyday matters take precedent. How much time do you spend practicing? I realise everyone is different with regards learning simply because of innate abilities and the even the methods they employ to learn. I still welcome your feedback it makes practice time not seem so lonely when you know there are others on a similar learning path and facing the same challenges.

Good luck and keep whistling 😀

I don't think I practise more than an hour each day. I always try and play all the tunes I know once per week to keep them in my head. Most of the time I will work on a new tune which takes about 2 weeks to get the basics down. Just 30 minutes to an hour each day or every other day epending on what I have going on. I also keep a whistle on me or close at hand ... I get board easy so I like to have it around to pick up for just 5 minutes as a distraction. Usually I'll play a section of a tune that I'm having problems with or just free style to whats on the radio and see if I can find a groove with the music ... the idea being if I can't play the whistle as well as I can whistle a tune I don't know my instrument ... so far I don't know my instrument, but sometimes I get something going that works.