Get a couple of cassettes---Mary Bergin [whistle] and Stockton's Wing. Pick up your bodhran, in your left hand, pretend you're about to blow your nose with your fingers with your right, stick a tipper in it a la haudin a pencil, keep your wrist slack and your elbow supple, don't worry about playing "double-ended"--that will come naturally--- and get to it. It'll happen very suddenly; you'll be up and away afore ye know it! Relax---the tipper does 90% of the work. And, a wee aside---many an accomplished bodhran handler doesn't use any implement--tipper brush or other; you can learn to jig an' reel with the back of your fingers.