if there are any websites which might have the sheet music to the Beatles’ song “Yesterday” which is formatted to fit the pennywhistle? I was listening to the song a couple of days ago and I was thinking about how pretty it would be on the whistle!
Thanks,
Cheerio,
Sara
[ This Message was edited by: DaleWisely on 2001-09-20 17:36 ]
any music can be played on any instrument. you just have to transcribe it to suit your needs. So, buy your music in whatever key it’s in, then change the key to fit your own instrument, be it pennywhistle or whatever.
I haven’t found any Beatles sheet music online yet. I did see several guitar tab files and midi files.
Yesterday, on the Beatles HELP! album, 1965
words & midi file:
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Glade/4715/yesterday.html
guitar tabs:
http://members.tripod.com/~jpgr_beatles/tabs/files/Yesterday.txt
I’ll post back here if I can find sheet music for ya !
Hi: I can print one out for you if you want. It’s probably easiest in the key of G. However, even that key has a D# in it which isn’t necessarily the easiest fingering.
Right. First note A A G (Yes ter day)…
You might try to sound it out from
there on your own. Half-hole the bottom
G sharp, as mentioned above. Doable,
and it sounds good.
Note this link was found on Patrick D’Arcy’s Uilleann Obsession website:
http://www.concentric.net/~Pdarcy/
[ This Message was edited by: Tony on 2001-09-19 23:39 ]
Hi Sara
I would have to suggest you try to pick it out by ear. It’s a slow enough melody to be able to work through. A good ear is essencial to playing music. There should be an ear training class in the music department of your local community college. Highly recomended if you haven’t a clue what to do. But picking out tunes and transcribing them to your instrument is the best practice for traing the ear. Good Luck and enjoy!!
Sara,yesterday sounds best on an F whistle,low or soprano and you can play right along with Sir Paul McCartney.You will need to half hole G# and B flat(I’m relating to a D whistle here,3rd and 2nd holes)and add a few ornaments here and there to get the best out this song/tune and it’s a worthy excuse to get yourself a generation F which is one of the nice keys anyway.Good luck and have fun.
Mike
[ This Message was edited by: mike.r on 2001-09-20 05:13 ]
Hello!
Thanks soooooo much guys! Tony gave me a website to find the sheet music, but before I use that, I’m going to see if I can work it out by ear, as jackorion had suggested. I too, think that’s a very good way to learn songs.
mike.r
Thank you! Will it sound okay on a low D whistle? I don’t have an F whistle, but I am going to look for a generation F!
Bye,
Sara
Sara,low D will sound good just use the same
fingering you come up with on your new gen F.I forgot to mention you can also play it on a C whistle. Mike 
Thanks mike.r
I’ve been working on it and I can play along with the tape on some parts! I’m playing it with my C whistle! It’s such a pretty song! 
Sara
Sir Paul’s original title for this was `scrambled eggs´I kid you not.Mike
“Scrambled Eggs” - lol! Where did you hear that? Why was he going to name it that? I’m curious as to why Sir Paul was going to choose that name!
Sara
Sara,Paul MacCartney revealed this recently on Larry King…it’s fairly common for songwriters to use a la-de-da type of phrase to suit the rhythm until something more profound comes along which in this case was pretty fortunate.Cheers 
Mike
Oh, I get it now. Thanks for explaining. Paul McCartney was on Larry King Live? Bummer, I missed it. I like Paul McCartney, I wish I had seen that. When was it on?
Sara
It was about 2 months ago and he was promoting his poetry/lyrics book…one of his early albums with Wings is titled `pipes of peace´and I wonder if there’s a whistle connection.I like him too.Mike
Hhmm, I’ll have to watch out for a re-run of that Larry King Live episode. I’ll as well have to look for that book. I don’t know, it would be TOTALLY awesome if there was a whistle connection! Maybe there is!
Sara
