'Listening to Eric Rigler’s Christmas cd. He keeps bending up to a back D. Anyone know how he does it? Roll the thumb out from under a C# and bring down the fingers on top as you do it?
That’s the only thing I can think of, but I haven’t gotten a chance to try it yet…
Thanks,
-Joey
Most chanters will play back d with the C# hole open, so you just rolling up your thumb should do the trick (at least in theory). YMMV.
No E
Yup, that’s the ticket.
My back D bends when I don’t want the bugger to.
Yikes. I posted on the piping board. Stop that now.
Mukade
Joey - are you sure he’s bending up, and not down? It could be the ghost d he’s playing (that would be a more common technique for sliding into the d than sliding up from the C#). Also, some chanters’ “ghost d” is actually slightly flat of d instead of sharp.
In case you’re not familiar with the ghost d, it’s played in the second octave with only the bottom tonehole open. It’s pretty common to open the back d from there, closing the bottom tonehole in the process.
Bill
try modulationg the pressure you play your back D with.
I haven’t heard the recording mentioned here, but this sounds very much like a good possibility.
I learned a nice bend into back D from Mickey Dunne. You roll/slide/uncurl off C# and back D with C# leading just a fraction before the D (the motion is almost like you would flick something from your finger). as soon as D is released, you shut C# and give the D a little vibrato. If done properly, you get a bend, but you also get quite a dynamic ‘twang’ off it too.
As in both kinds of music.. Country and Western? 
but you also get quite a dynamic ‘twang’ off it too.
Ah yes. 'Cause we all know that it “don’t mean a thang, if it don’t got that twang!”