This notation is pretty simple; dark circles mean covered holes; empty circles mean uncovered holes; a '+' below means to blow harder to get the upper octave; a '#' below means this note is too low for the whistle chosen and you'll have to fake it :) The author of this program always plays accidentals by closing holes, so you'll never see half-covered holes.
When I was starting, I found notation like this to be very helpful, and I know plenty of people who have trouble reading music who find this notation easier. Good luck!
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Dulcimer tab
for this song is also available
Jolly Young Sailor Boy Come all you lads and lasses I pray you will attend Unto those few lines I am now going to pen It is of a brisk young sailor and he a prentice bound. He fell in love with a lady gay worth thirty thousand pounds. It was in her father's garden beneath a willow tree, He took her in his arms for to use her tenderly They both sit down upon the ground for to relate their joy, "Come when you will, you are my love still you're my bonny sailor boy." Her old father being listening and heard what they did say "Your love shall be transported, I'll send him far away I'll send your love on board a ship. I'1I rob you of your joy". '' Send him where vou will, he is my love still is my bonny young sailor boy." "Oh, if I had a trumpet I would sound you my love s name, . And if I had a pen and ink I'd write you what he is His teeth the're whiter than the snow that falls in any clime, When my- love sings the valley rings in one true heart of mine." DT #745 Laws M22 From Creighton and Senior Collected from Thomas Young SOF apr97
Thanks to Mudcat for the Digital Tradition!
