hey!
I need some help. I need a song that I can accompany a singer with on my whistle. She has a very clear, crisp voice and I’m certain an Irish air or something celtic would suit her best. Except I don’t know any good tunes. Is there anyone with some ideas?
- If she is going to sing, and you play the whistle, I think she should pick the song.
- If you won’t let her
or she doesn’t want to, try Bridgit O’Malley or Fear An Bhata. - Make her learn it off a recording. Learn to play it along with her on your whistle. Then learn to do harmony, but do only very little of that (like maybe on the refrain.)
- Keep the arrangement simple.
- Say what you need help with in the name of your thread.
The first time ever I saw your
face… Ewan McCall.
Scarbourough Fair
Greensleeves
Believe me if all those endearing
young charms
Blue Suede Shoes (just kidding)
Mo Ghile Mear
A truly beautiful & haunting melody, and the original Gaelic verses have been translated into English, if she cannot speak any of our ancestral tongue.
On 2002-04-03 01:50, brian_k wrote:
Mo Ghile MearA truly beautiful & haunting melody, and the original Gaelic verses have been translated into English, if she cannot speak any of our ancestral tongue.
Mo Ghile Mear is good.
But “our ancestral tongue”? Man, I am half Japanese, half Sephardic Jew with a bit Peruvian mutt and Swedish railroad worker thrown in! (Heaven knows where I get the red beard.) Although Mo Ghile Mear in Hebrew might be nice, actually.
The Curragh of Kildare
Down by the Sally Gardens
Inisfree
The Bantry Girls’ Lament
Scarborough Fair
Suo Gan (Welsh lullaby)
On 2002-04-03 09:16, Bloomfield wrote:
On 2002-04-03 01:50, brian_k wrote:
Mo Ghile MearA truly beautiful & haunting melody, and the original Gaelic verses have been translated into English, if she cannot speak any of our ancestral tongue.
Mo Ghile Mear is good.
But “our ancestral tongue”? Man, I am half Japanese, half Sephardic Jew with a bit Peruvian mutt and Swedish railroad worker thrown in! (Heaven knows where I get the red beard.) Although Mo Ghile Mear in Hebrew might be nice, actually. >
I was going to suggest “Turning Japanese” by The Vapours
but I’ve changed my mind.
Hey Bloomy, my sister in law is Japanese, and I have a gorgeous 2 year old Half-Japanese niece, who is growing up bilingual.
Some good suggestion have been posted.
You might want to add:
The Star of County Down
On the resent topic <a href=http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?topic=3302&forum=1>Star of County Down: Advise needed I posted the following.
On 2002-03-25 10:03, LeeMarsh wrote:
<a href=> http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/5/slainte.html>Slainte</a> > on MP3.COM has an excelent version of <a href=> http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/18/18856.html>The > Star of County Down. It starts out with a just a whistle carrying the melody through. The voices join in the secont time through. Now that I’ve learned a little about ornamentation through the whistle, I can more easily hear the sweet soprano voice of the singer as she adds a bit of ornamentation here and there.
There were additional comments for your review and sources for the notation and lyrics.
On 2002-04-03 10:08, Martin Milner wrote:
On 2002-04-03 09:16, Bloomfield wrote:
On 2002-04-03 01:50, brian_k wrote:
Mo Ghile MearA truly beautiful & haunting melody, and the original Gaelic verses have been translated into English, if she cannot speak any of our ancestral tongue.
Mo Ghile Mear is good.
But “our ancestral tongue”? Man, I am half Japanese, half Sephardic Jew with a bit Peruvian mutt and Swedish railroad worker thrown in! (Heaven knows where I get the red beard.) Although Mo Ghile Mear in Hebrew might be nice, actually. >
I was going to suggest “Turning Japanese” by The Vapours
but I’ve changed my mind.
Hey Bloomy, my sister in law is Japanese, and I have a gorgeous 2 year old Half-Japanese niece, who is growing up bilingual.
Martin, I am afraid my post wasn’t a fair description of my actual ancestoral make-up. I just wanted to make the point that it may be music from Ireland, but it is not music only for the Irish. And while I am a little more boring genetically, I am not Irish (in this lifetime, that is).
Cheers,