Tin Whistle (Penny Whistle) App Graded Lessons & Tunes

Session Whistle grades every note you play on-device — no ads, no account, and audio never leaves your iPhone.

Irish trad, fingering by fingering.

Your playing never leaves your device: listening, transcription, and grading run on-device. No account, no ads, no trackers.

Irish traditional music is vast and public-domain, but tutorials for the tin whistle — the penny whistle — are thin. Soloist gives a 6-hole, D-diatonic fingering renderer and a deep session repertoire.

6-hole fingering diagrams

Whistle fingerings drawn for every note.

D-diatonic subset filter

Tunes filtered to what the whistle plays.

Real session repertoire

A trove of public-domain Irish trad, score-checked.

How honest grading works

Listen.
Play your take and Session Whistle captures it through the microphone, processing everything on your device. Audio is never uploaded — our backend has no audio endpoints at all.
Measure.
The engine locates each note you played — its pitch, its timing, its onset — and compares it against the score, note by note.
Report.
You see which notes rang true, which didn't, and what to loop next — drills built from your actual rough spots. An unclear take is left ungraded, never turned into a confident mistake.

Real screens. Real practice.

Inside Session Whistle, screen by screen.

The Session Whistle tune page for Drowsy Maggie with score, tab, and D-whistle fingering — A reel with score, tab, and fingerings

The Session Whistle tune list of reels, jigs, slip jigs, hornpipes, and polkas — The session book — reels, jigs, hornpipes

A Session Whistle lesson teaching the roll, with fingering examples and a listen-and-grade drill — Ornaments taught slowly, then graded

Free charts, guides & references

The reference material behind the lessons, published free — interactive on this site, printable for the music stand.

Songs & free notation

9 public-domain and original works with full, readable notation — read them free here, then let Session Whistle grade your take note by note.

Questions

Which whistle?

Standard D tin whistle, with diatonic filtering.

Is the trad catalog real?

Yes — public-domain Irish tunes, primary-source verified.

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