In the Heather Clarke tutorial I sometimes come across Back D cut with a high E (e.g., in the sheet music for The South Sea, which isn’t recorded on the CD.) Is there any way to place this apart from quickly playing E in between the two Ds?
Thanks
Andrew
possibly ghost D’ is meant when an e gracenote is indicated
Not ghost d only. E nat too. You can play back d without two lowest fingers on right hand, then for e, you need only close back hole. The difference in sound of d not so big? i think. In slow tunes it is better to play only fast e between two d. This all- IMHO))))))))
It’s probably not meant to be ghost D since that hasn’t been introduced in the Clarke tutorial at this stage. Perhaps the notation was meant for the whistle, since it’s easy to cut the D with an E on the whistle. The fact that the tune isn’t included on the Cd suggests that it might have been a late addition.
The E-fingered back D sounds like it’s worth trying.
Best Wishes
Andrew
If you mean The South Wind, split the first two D’s by closing the thumb hole and split the second and third D’s using the ghost D. That’s the piperly thing to do. Don’t use the E. It could lead to an objectionable habit.
Eric
Seamus Ennis in the Master’s Touch at some point refers to playing two D’s with the little finger off to avoid too staccato a sound. It’s a device I use often as I don’t like the very staccato Ds in a lot of places. I find it can break up the flow of the tune. Some pipers though go for the rigidly separated Ds. The ghost D doesn’t treally sound when doing this.
In any case, I agree with Eric, using E to separate back Ds is not a thing I hear done by pipers whose stylistic choices I admire.
I’ll have to give that a try as I’d been just ‘wiping’ the thumb across the back D quickly (and not completely sealing the hole) to try and soften that sound.
Thx,
Gary