I am trying to stay away from sheet music as I have hit a wall with it. I am trying to train my ear to learn tunes. Could anyone help me out with these.
Four Green Fields…
Dcba abgfa
Dcba ab???
Am i even close here ???
ok and then,
Star Spangled Banner
DbgbDG
This is all on a D Whistle, If anyone can help that would be great. Also I hope I am close since i am really working hard on doing this by ear.
Think of Star Spangled Banner as a bunch of arpeggios. Start on A and do an arpeggio down to D, then back up to middle D. You’ll hear the melody right away. The only part that is hard is there’s a G# (by the dawn’s ear-LY light - the G# is on the “LY”) but it’s not hard to half-hole because you’re not playing fast. In fact, you can substitute an A for the G# there and you’ll hardly notice.
If you can’t get it by ear, let me know. I can send you the sheet music and midi for both.
Mike
I use the Dbg approach to the Star Spangled Banner.
And I always play it when trying out a new whistle. It’ll let you know, right away, how in-tune the whistle is…and the general feel of the thing.
A good “test” tune, it is…
I use the Dbg approach to the Star Spangled Banner.
So then my ear is not failing me, this is the beginning of the tune if it where payed in the key of D ?
If so what the next 2 notes ?
Maybe it would be better to have it just in case. Right now I am stuck and i cannot move forward, but if I had it I could. If you could send it over that would be great.
Thank You.
Doesn’t it go too high if you start that high up? When I start on A I think it goes all the way to the high B, using up pretty much all the notes I know how to make.
I would start lower on Star Spangled Banner
key of D major(all Fs and Cs sharp)
AFDFAd
fedFGsharpA
etc
the highest note is “a” but you do need to do the half-holed G sharps.
Four Green Fields
key of D major
dCBA
AABGFA
dCBA
ABBBCdCBA
fedfdgffe
etc
Pancelticpiper’s post has the notes. If you would still like the PDF and midi, PM your email address and I’ll get them right out.
Mike