and weeeeeeee, I was blown away …far far away. I wonder how can he do that. I was listening to his breath pauses and he is damn good. I can’t seem to hear his breath. I wonder if he is even breathing.
I want to study this Tune…damn I believe it can melt the underwear of the listeners.
I tried to play it by ear, but it is so fast. Listening to it slowly made my nose bleed, I simply can’t follow through as I am really blown away focusing on the player’s skill instead of the tunes.
Do you know any free scores of it, I need to step back a little.
Also is Lunasa the title of the Song or the Name of the Band?
I want to take my whistle playing to another level, and this song is my target to conquer.
Speaking of fast..
Here’s a (unfortunately badly out of sync) clip och the Cunningham brothers, Phil and Johnny (RIP) having a ball as usual, mocking each other and generally having some great craic http://youtu.be/KAngo7S9AFI
The Island Paddy set is notated in Lunasa’s book "Notai " It is available at several outlets over the Internet. here’s one: http://www.elderly.com/books/items/623-2.htm This can be a big help getting you going but it falls short of everything Crawford does throughout the set. Crawford does not play Sporting Paddy in any setting as I have seen notated elsewhere.
By the way, Kevin Crawford is a very nice and approachable man (with a wicked sense of humor) and he is a fine teacher- catch him if you can.
i like that the highest rated comment commends him on being the “jimi hendrix of low flute” …when it clearly is a high whistle (unless he is over 30’ tall?!?)
but in their defense, when you say ‘whistle’ to the average person they have no idea you are talking about an instrument.
Also note that in the Lunasa video, Kevin plays a Susato whistle in C (so if you try to follow him with a whistle in D, this adds to the difficulty of the speed and the variations that he introduces).
In the video of Sharon Shannon, she plays the same set of tunes (“Rathlin Island/Sporting Paddy”) but whit a whistle in D.
For “Sporting Paddy” I prefer this transcription (with rolls, by Henrik Norbeck):
I guess my fingers are working today because I was able to play along with Kevin on Rathlin Island in the Lunasa video. But the only way I can manage it is to keep my fingers rather close to the holes, moving them as little as possible. Check out Kevin’s finger movement. Huge deflection. Maybe that’s part of why he sounds cleaner than I do.
