Your instruction was very helpful. I got my first whistle and your video along with two ladies video instructions were excellent. I was able to use my whistle within the hour. I'm learning more control over pitch and tone everyday. Thank you. Very helpful and well played video.

I have had my whistle for years and years. This was the first time I made a consistent sound. Problem is I don't herd anymore.

Awesome video! We work sheep with our dog as well as hike in broad areas with him. I can't whistle (mouth or using fingers) to save my life. I did play a woodwind instrument in my younger days, and this video got me making "noise" with my herding whistle right away! The suggestion to practice playing songs is perfect. Thanks so much, Michael!

Excellent tutorial!. Very clear, concise, and to the point. A lot of information by a knowledgeable user. Thanks

How have I not found your video before!!!! Absolutely brilliant, I've had my whistle for a while now and this is the first video that's really broken it down so I understand it. My dogs in process of training with sheep so she's learning and I'm learning 😁

Just got my whistle & after viewing your superb instructional video am about to have happy times with various tunes, great video! Dave UK

Great job, this is a lot better than some of the other general KZread tutorial videos you see out there.

THANK YOU! I've had this whistle for a month (cheap plastic one). The instructions that came with it were useless and I am finally making noise!

Great tutorial. Couldn't understand what I was doing wrong for a while, but the comment about the tongue dividing the mouth into two halves was what made sense to me. I hadn't been lifting my tongue.

Thanks for the info, Michael! Really enjoyed the intro to Treibball you did at Penny's last night. Very cool...I think this is going to be THE next wonderful sport for dogs and their owners!

@melmeche A Link to where i got my whistle is in the description. Ill try not to move for my next video, its just a nervous habit :D. I started using a whistle a few days into learning treibball. I feel that if your going to use the whistle, you might as well use it from day one. There isnt as much of a reason to transition like there is in sheep herding. Michael

Extremely useful thanks very much for posting these videos mate! I just got my acme whistle this morning (plastic one) and it didnt have any instructions at all and its impossible to get any noise out of it, however within 20 seconds of watching you demonstrating I was already making high and low noises. Thanks so much :)

Thanks for making this video! It was perfect and you made a lot of great points that I plan on following! 👍😁

You are the best! I actually was able to get a song goin' on before your tutorial was over! I want to use it to call my horses in :) Now on to your next video . . . . thank you!!!

While I was anxious for you to get to the tutorial, the intro material was very interesting and useful. None of that was obvious to me until you explained it. I found Shepard Whistles on a 3D printing site, and googled for instructions. Your site came up. I'm going to print a couple of them and see how it goes. Looking forward to watching Part 2.

Thanks so much. by the end of this video i was playing tunes clearly. 6 minutes man. great vid

I still love watching all your videos! Kudos for introducing different content but from one trainer to another I absolutely enjoy watching you and you have an amazing talent! I have no idea if you're still training but if so I would love to talk to to you in the future about a podcast idea I've had. Sorry for bringing it here but I'm always on no lie and couldnt get the PM thing to work, either way I sure enjoy watching your Chanel and cone back over and over!

Brilliant, bought one of these years ago and never managed to use it until i saw your video A+++++++++++

Subbed, thanks! I just got one of these, and I'm so excited to start training my dog. I've used clickers, and my own whistle, but this will be louder and will carry further.

Wow this video was amazingly I got it aflter about 10 minutes of practice. Thank you very much

Well done video Michael.

I have been using these sheperd's whistles for over 40 years, both metal or plastic. As kids we made them from bottle caps. When I worked in construction I used them to signal the crane driver with specific blasts so I could use both hands to handle the load under the hook.

Thanks! I got it right away using your video

Thankyou for a great tutorial! Ps: I had never thought about the idea of taking the emotion out of a command, makes so much sense.😊

Your so right, I haven’t been able to get a Squeak Out of So Far. I’ll keep trying

awesome tutorial, our border collie is 12 and belonged to my daughter and son in law, they moved to BC and I got custody of our dog. We had the whistle for a long time none of us could figure out how to how to use it. After I practice the whistle, I will watch the next tutorial. Thank you.

Yeh thanks for that! I would have absolutely no idea if I hadn't seen your vid. I can now make a sound but I'm still working on how to control pitch. My dog is very interested too.

It truly is a remarkable tool. The variable pitch whistle is designed to communicate over long distances, regardless of the model. so the first piece of advice I would give you is that when working close up with you dog (or otherwise really) you should attempt to blow the whistle as quietly as possible. Only enough for the dog to just hear it, thus simulating how it will sound at a longer distance.

Thanks got me started now to practice

Nice video. thanks for the instructions. well done.

lol I finally got a sound and my dog immediately jumped up to see what was doing! Planning to use this at work at Starbase. My dog can't be off leash, or he'll be gone, though I did train him to turn left/right with regular mouth generated whistles on leash.

A great tutorial. You may have just started an orchestra thing with that whistle. I'm definitely going to try it with my dog, and maybe just to make music. I used to play the Orchestral Flute, so it's down my line.

Great tutorial man!I subbed!

Nice lesson

Very helpful - I'm trying to make one from a tin snuff lid. Thanks & Happy Trails!

Thank you so much. Really helpful for newbie ☺️

Great video, very helpful Thankyou.

Great tutorial 10/10 !!!!!

@Falandorn awesome! glad you found this usefull

Michael...thanks for the tutorial. I have been searching for a dog whistle to use on my 2 extremely spoiled lap dogs. Yes, I know I created them, along with a lot of help from other members of the family, but it is time for change. I need to train them to come when called-not when they feel like it and to stop barking their heads off for no reason. I believe this whistle may be the perfect answer to my situation. My Shorkie sat right up during your demo-however, my Shih Tzu didn't even budge:)

Chur Bro Thanks from New Zealand.

@withtheloveofadog glad you enjoyed it, hopefully we will have competitions coming up soon!

this totally helps!!! whew! Thank you!

GREAT VIDEO

Thanks! Great teacher!!!

Removing the emotion is precisely what I need, thanks. +1 for learning to play Star Wars.

Got my whistle today and already can make a sound!! What, what! Ok, thanks for the pointers Michael, songs next. My heart is exploding with happy, I even have some little control! I was decided and determined to get it quickly ;) Many apologies to everyone in my life who now will have to hear endless sounds from my drooly toy. Whattaryagonnado?

Thanks enjoined very much will be looking for #2 video

Thanks this video was sooo helpful

i got the hang of it before the vid ended thank you

Got my shepard whistle yesterday and decided to YT a vid on how to play it. Saw this tutorial and figured it was decent. After a day of practicing. I realized that a whistle is the easiest thing to pull off. You can actually get a deep clarinet sound off of the Shepard whistle. I've been doing my scales all day today. ...suddenly I realized that this guy is a n00b. There are other vids out there that have the clarinet sound and better instruction. I'm pretty damn good at it already. Whistling Isa for n00bs. Making a deep clear note is for pros. Git gud skrub.

I last had one of these when I was 10 and was really good at it, just never got a dog 😅 now I have a collie cross and just bought one again. Day 1 today, I can get a squeak, I drive 2 hours a day so the training begins 😄👍🏻

thanks mate!

Fantastic vid, what brand/model whistle are you using? I looked at the link but I'm not sure if I could see the one in the video.

Thank u :) informative. I'm buying one today

Thanks for this, I'm off to practice in the car!

Well, here I got the whistle and thought I could start using it right away... to my frustration, I couldn't get any sound and thought it was broke. Thanks for your explanation and now I just have to practice. Who knew this is requiring to actually learn an "instrument"!

this... and what you do... is badass.

Very helpful

Michael, the Sam tatters comment is typical of someone training to be a behaviourist, they spend all their time explaining why you are wrong. You are correct a whistle that uses a specific sound is a cue, its not to get the dogs attention its to give a command Great tutorial, I've had one for ages, worked straight away, the secret seems to be not to try to hard cheers

I was watching your video and Melvin kept cocking his head back and forth with his big ears standing fully erect. Too funny.

Thanks a lot that was very helpful

@melmeche on the website i gave they also have the plastic ones, which are by far the cheapest and most common. I suggest learning on one of those and then switching to a higher quality one. I haven't personally tried a coriander one, The metal ones are much harder to use and shriller so i know a lot of trainers who don't like them.

Thanks Michael.

great tutorial. problem is I have a fairly long tongue. I found that if I fold my tongue down and put the whistle on the top it creating a space under the whislte I was able to whistle. it took about 5 min before I was able to do it.

Excellent advice for people who never used one before...

@Solstisol Actually a lot of old school Irish/Scottish shepherds use there fingers to whistle like that. Most of us don't like using fingers while working stock because our hands are so dirty :D

I had previously purchased a herding whistle at the suggestion of another trainer to use in hunt testing. I want to give cues such as right or left, sit, come etc and also may use it as a marker since there are so many sounds. I agree that it takes awhile to get the sound but then it is very cool and impressive! Question? I also need it LOUD I bought the lite version, is there a louder version to be heard at farther distance?

Very helpful!!!

@PawsitivelyTraining Maybe you misunderstood, a variable pitch whistle is never used as a marker (at least not in herding or treibball), I do use marker words occasionally (not often, because markers don't work very well in herding IMHO) and clickers in treibball, so I do understand what a marker is. However, the variable pitch whistle is used to give commands when use of your voice is either not ideal or impossible. So it is a cue. Hope that clarifies the use of the whistle in herding :D.

Sweet vid guy thank you. Very much

Thanks for the Video! but i didnt find the Part II you mentioned - is it anywhere on KZread? otherwise it would be great if you could upload the advanced Level ;-)

Thanks, Michael. You didn't include information about how to change the tones though.

@ericatronic gotta love it

for mine to work (took 25 minutes) i need to squeeze my cheeks from the sides, so i was wondering, does that mean i need a bigger one? i just bought the ACME plastic one they sell on Amazon.

Good video. I especially liked the complicated song... Star Wars Theme?

brilliant, thanks for the wisdom and help, I'm a total novice and I think without your advise I would of made training my dog to come to a whistle terrible.

@halfmoonssky My mistake, I was quoting from your video & didn't mean to include the "whistles" part. I know variable pitch whistles are used to give cues & would be a bad choice of marker; but your comment made it sound like clickers & flash-lights are used to give cues, which (barring the overall cue of "hey, it's time to have some fun" before giving verbal/physical cues) is almost impossible :D

I got one, but couldn't find the instructions how to use it. Was it assumed we knew already? I'd would've loved to use one, even if was just for a walkie to my Tess's favourite park or a walkie around the neighbourhood. Blowing it in Petco or PetSmart might be confusing or annoying to other dogs.

Dogs have an amazing ability hear sounds, especially the types of sound the whistle creates, over long distances. Secondly, the metal whistles, theoretically, should amplify the sound better than plastic would, though you really shouldn't need to push the whistles to their limits they can carry an amazing distance.

Tenerife, Spain, Africa. 'Nice vid. Hey, would our Spanish articulated finger-whistling (that you can see on my last couple of videos on KZread) be as good as that whistle?

Recommends for the good quality whistle? Our dog is still 12 weeks old so it takes a while before we can teach whistle commands but i can already try to use whistle :) We have working bordercollie that we hope that will shepherd our sheeps in the future. I tried to make video response with link to video (containing our dog first time with sheeps). But it seems that i still have to practice using KZread.

@jppaynesr Glad I could help

where is part 2?

Is whisles good for huskies ?

thanks

well it didnt work for the horses but was great to get my husband to come for his brew but great job micheal x

Where is part 2?

Really helpful although as suggested this could take some time!!

Best video on how to blow these infuriating whistles! Thanks

What about the holes in the whistle? Where do your lips and tongue go in relation to these holes?

thanks,for the help, ♫ ♪ ♬ works well.

1 month later. I'm getting a basic tune, and starting to learn the commands.

Star Wars! Great song

Thanks enjon

great video...thank you...

@halfmoonssky

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Thank you!

i recommend the cheap plastic ones. you will probably lose several over the course of a lifetime and the plastic really works just as good as anything else. the other useful thing would be to learn to whistle with your fingers (maybe ill put a tutorial for that too). im looking forward to seeing your video!

Ace cheers

thanks cool dude

Perfect....