Help me decipher these notes

Whistle
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The tune is the Wedding, and it’s performed by Capercaillie (Michael McGoldrick) live on their album Live in Concert. I got the whole tune, except this part, the notes between A-B-D-B-A and the D-E-F (notes as played on a D whistle). Could somebody please tell me what’s being played?

Soundtrack

The soundtrack is transposed from Eb to F (so I can play it on my lovely Alba low F :smiley:).

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I haven’t got a clue, Ostekjeks. But I just purchased an Alba low-F from another list member, and have been at it since it arrived on Friday. I’ve never played a low whistle before, so it takes some adjustment, but it’s a lot easier than I would have imagined. I’d love to hear a soundclip of this tune (or another) so I can hear how you make that whistle sound! Why don’t you post something over on ‘Whistle This’?

3

I’m on it. But I’m not exactly used to letting other people hear my playing… :wink:

4

I use an old device for transcriping fast guitar work and whistle stuff called the Riff-O-Matic. You can slow music down to 1/2 speed and it even has a note grabber. Software has gotten more sophisticated though. I think you could download the Amazing Slow Downer at http://www.ronimusic.com/ for free. If I get to it, I could give it a go with the ole Riff-O-Matic.

P3

5

Sure, you can download it for free, but the free version is horribly disabled. Audacity is truely free and has much more functionality to it, in my opinion.

6

I have software to slow it down, but I just can’t get it.

7

I don’t know the tune but I ran it through my old Riff-O-Matic note by note. This is what I got out of the clip you provided:

D2BA AfefD2A | B D2BADFD | {EFG}EDBD2AG | (F)EFBFAF

I tried to give you some markers for the measures. The {} represents a triplet. I read music fine but never learned internet whistle tab so I learned it for this post. I hope it makes sense.

Let me know if you have corrections.

P3

8

Go with what he said. The studio I record in has the full version of the Amazing Slow Downer, so I honestly don’t know what the free version offers and doesn’t offer.

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It only lets you do some things with the first two tracks on a disk or the first part of a song file on the hard disk. Enough to figure out if you like it, i guess.

I bought the full version for my PC and now use a Mac almost exclusively. They want $30 just to get the Mac version now.

If anyone wants to buy my license to my PC ASD, make an offer.

Steven

10

If the tune you want to learn isn’t the first or second on a CD, you can burn a custom CD in which it is. If you use a rewriteable CD, you’ve wasted nothing but time.

11

I don’t need any software help…

12

Did my quick little transciption work out for you? Does it seem right?

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No, it didn’t help me, sorry. If only you could structure the ABC data so it could be a readable one for data programs, so I could hear a MIDI file. Only then I would be sure whether yours is a right transcription or not.

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Here is the the score and midi from picardy third.
Use the abc Convert-A-Matic on concertina.net




midi_picardy

Cheers!

/MarcusR

edit: Fixed, new transcription from P3…

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Thanks, Marcus. I’ve tried that site, but I wasn’t sure about what to put in front of the note info. Anyway, you seem to have managed it. And sorry, the notes are just rubbish. Never trust computers!

Thanks for the help, guys. I’ll just play something that seems satisfying enough.



Hey, what typo?

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Thanks Marcus. But since Marcus plugged in my incorrect ABC transcription (no one’s fault but mine), I have transcribed the excerpt in a more proper form.

(I don’t have the photo on the internet so I can’t post the photo here.)

X: 1
T: P3’s transcription of an excetp from The Wedding
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
dB|A2 Af ef dA| B2 dB AD FD| (3EFG ED Bd AG| (3FEF BF AF EF|

If you want to here the midi of this, just copy the ABC format and paste it at: http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html

Of course the midi program won’t swing the notes but you get the idea. I also put together an mp3 of the Amazing Slowdowner playing the clip very slow followed by a sample of me playing the clip slowed down. If anyone wants it, I’d be glad to email it. Or if some one wants to host the file here (it is only 1 mb).

P3

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Sorry P3, I didn’t check the score as I was in a bit of hurry, just made the conversion and hosted the result. Switched image and midi link on the previous post now as the concertina links are only up for a short time.

I’ll host it for you if you want.

Cheers!

/MarcusR

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Marcus was kind enough to host my picture for me. So this is the correct transcription. The midi doesn’t play the tune fast enough or swing the notes but you get the idea.

I have a small mp3 I created of the slowed down version of the real thing plus followed up with me playing the slowed down version on my Burke F (I love this whistle!)

Wedding Clip Slowed Down
http://us.f13.yahoofs.com/bc/44b569ba_ee6f/bc/Music/Wedding+Clip.mp3?bfB2ntEBEWYM4eO8

P3