Hello everyone. My name is Sean Christopher. I just wanted to start by saying, It is great I finaly found a fourm that I can enjoymyself in. I come from all walks of life, when It comes to music, I have a perticular love of Jigs and Airs. Anyway, on to my busnesss…
I know the views on reading music (ITM) instead of “playing” it. With that said I want to say this: I have been playing a wood whistle (at first I thought it was a type of wood flute which I later learned was completle diffrent Silly me.) for about a week now. With my past musical experance I have picked up on it suprisingly fast. I wish to continue to play on my own and not read music from tab (tablitare) but It would be nice to play a fimiluar song to see how well I am progressing in tone, sound, fingering, etc. Can anyone help me with that? Does anyone have some kind or six fingered “tab” I can read?
It would be most aprecated.
ps, would love to hear more of the wonderful music I hear on this site.
Today while I was practicing the scale on the whilstle, which I though was a simple seven notes, it seemed incomplete. The scales I was used to play had eight. I quickly found the eight note in the same six closed hole posission I starrted in. In my curosity I atempted to find just how high and low I could get. I hit fifteen with out making the whistle crack and sound horable. This is my question: Am I soposed to beable to hit all of these? Am I playing incorrectly?
I have a B wood whistle. Any and all advice would be wonderful.
15 notes is pretty good on the whistle, so you’re doing fine there. At this point you’d probably want to pick up a book tutor that has fingering and scale information in it. I don’t have any experience with them myself, but I’ve heard Grey Larson makes a good book. I’m sure that others have opined on this subject before, so if you search the boards you can probably find lots of suggestions.
Cheers, and good luck on your whistling adventure.
The songs that say “with tune” after them are the ones that have the music as well as the lyrics. There’s a spot to click on that says “pennywhistle notation” and if you don’t have a whistle in the key that first comes up, click one of the other choices.
Thank you, Im gratefull to you both. I was begining to think no one here cared about new talent. . Ill be sure to check out your sight. Now I feel Ill be able to post my own music soon. Thanks again.
You’d get a much larger, and faster, response there if that’s what you’re after.
Though, it’s possible that the responses will contain some silliness that you may
have to ignore to get to the real info…
Also you posted on a weekend! Most of us only check the Forums during the week. Feaffin is right though, whistle specific questions will get a better response on the Whitsle board, but if it’s a tune specific question, this is the best place.
When you say B whistle, do you mean it’s in the key of B?
The “eighth note” in the scale is often better played with the top finger off and the other five down. Tends to give a better tone, give it a try and see which you prefer. It’s useful to be able to do both.
For ITM, you wouldn’t need more than those fifteen notes. If you can hit them all cleanly, jumping to each not from any other note, you’re doign well.
You’d get a much larger, and faster, response there if that’s what you’re after.
Though, it’s possible that the responses will contain some silliness that you may
have to ignore to get to the real info… smile
Ill deffinatly move there. I dont remeber why now but I felt I was in the right place when I started my thread.
Also you posted on a weekend! Most of us only check the Forums during the week. Feaffin is right though, whistle specific questions will get a better response on the Whitsle board, but if it’s a tune specific question, this is the best place.
When you say B whistle, do you mean it’s in the key of B?
The “eighth note” in the scale is often better played with the top finger off and the other five down. Tends to give a better tone, give it a try and see which you prefer. It’s useful to be able to do both.
For ITM, you wouldn’t need more than those fifteen notes. If you can hit them all cleanly, jumping to each not from any other note, you’re doign well.
Yes it is in the key of B, however I dont feel it was marked incorrectly. It plays perfict to, and sounds like it is in C. Keep in mind this is a cheap hand made wooden whistle, however the sound is wonderful…it is hard for me as an unexperianced whistle player to tell the diffrance from my wooden one to some of the more expencive tin ones.
Silly me.) for about a week now. With my past musical experance I have picked up on it suprisingly fast. I wish to continue to play on my own and not read music from tab (tablitare) but It would be nice to play a fimiluar song to see how well I am progressing in tone, sound, fingering, etc. Can anyone help me with that? Does anyone have some kind or six fingered “tab” I can read?
. Ill be sure to check out your sight. Now I feel Ill be able to post my own music soon. Thanks again.