I’m trying out a beginner lesson on scoiltrad.com. It’s called ‘Morrison’s Jig’. A couple notes in the song go lower than D. I have a standard D whistle, so it seems I can’t play these notes. What do I play in this case? Do I just let the beats go by? I sent an email a couple days ago to scoiltrad.com, no response, possibly because of the holiday.
thanks!
Patrick
Morrisons jig, with all notes playable, can be found at http://www.tonydixonmusic.co.uk/tutorial/jigging.html
HTH 
How low do they go? Do you know what key it’s in?
Your choices, basically, are to play it in a different key (following the link Easily_Deluded_Fool gave you) or use a whistle that plays in the key your lesson has it written in. I’m surprised they’d give a beginners lesson that’s not playable on a D whistle, since that’s the most common key. Let us know when you get your followup, OK?
Redwolf
After looking again, this was my own error… the tune does not go below D. I swear I saw lower notes…
Well, you really will run into the situation from time to time, where a tune goes lower than you can go on your whistle.
This happens on flute too.
There are a few pretty common ways of dealing with it:
–you can take the offending notes up an octave, if you get picky about where to go up and down and work your phrasing around it, this can sound pretty durn good;
–you can play chord tones instead. This is how flutists routinely handle the lower notes in the A part of the Home Ruler;
–you can play some kind of ornament or passing tone figure. This can also work really well if you give it a little forethought.
–you can just leave out the notes that go too low. This isn’t a good option for solo play but in a session with other instruments this can be ok. This can be ok in solo if there are just a few too-low notes and you can work phrasing so that you break or breath there.
There more you play tunes that go too low, the better you’ll get at dealing with it.
Best wishes,
–James
http://www.flutesite.com
Deleted because I just saw that you realized the tune doesn’t go below D. 
Stuart
[ This Message was edited by: sturob on 2002-12-29 21:49 ]