I’ve tried JC’s tunefinder and only got some gibberish and Wandering whistlers site doesn’t have it. Can anyone help?
Kinda early, isn’t it? Oh, all right: 
http://www.musicaviva.com/midi/music.tpl?filnavn=adam-holy-night-voca4
ABC’s at the bottom.
Why don’t you try a real live music store that sells sheet music? Or learn to play it by ear.
JP
it’s not too early if you want to get it perfect by Christmas.
BTW, I think there is a version in Clips and Snips played on a Burke by Ridseard. I remember hearing it once.
I was pretty amazed tonight (which is not TOO hard to do). I looked at the song and saw 5 flats.
Not one
Not two
Not three
or Four
but FIVE of the suckers.
So I said what the heck, got out my “new” Burke Composite Low D and started playing. Know what? It sounded perfect. NO WAY! Only tough note was the 'Gnat" part way through, but it was managable.
Who’da thunk it. A new tool to use.
I’m confused. Why would a Gnatural be hard on a low D whistle? Maybe on a Db whistle…
If you’re playing a D whistle, I’d recommend getting the version in D that slowair posted…
Norcal, you didn’t use enough for us to tell whether you were kidding or not about playing Db on a D whistle. Are you really that good a half-holer?
Here is a snip from the dots:
5 flats, including a Gb. When the Gb is played on a D whistle is sounds by playing XXX OOO. Sooooooo when you put the natural on it you have to play it as G# (not Gb which is how I THINK I was trying to play it last night. :roll: ). G# on a D is a LOT easier to half hole and there may even be a cross fingering you can figure out that is even easier. Anyway, that is the only note in this version that is tough to play. I just thought it was cool that it was so easy to play a song in that key would translate to the D whistle so readily!!! Music (a form of math?) really amazes me.
I did not check out the D version because it was not there when I was messing with this or missed it (most likely). I will check it out. This one is pretty nice though.
Total of flats and sharps add up to 7, all the diatonic notes. You ignore the key signature, play it like it was in D. Raise any accidentals by a 1/2 step.
Works for any of the letter keys (like E and Eb) except for C and F where the key immediately below is on a different staff line. Of course you’re not actually playing in the flat key, you’re playing up the half step in the key of the whistle.
I thought a Gb was the same as an F# or XXX XOO on a D whistle.
Put a Natural on it, it’s a G natural, or XXX OOO.
G# is half holing the G hole, sometimes written XXV OOO (by me).
I thought…
This one includes whistle tab and midi…
http://www.guitarnut.com/folktablature/tinwhistle/holynight.html
So you are fingering it in D, not Db. If you are fingering it the way you say and you perform it with a piano playing in Db, you will be playing a half-step off. It works well that way (only the G# half-holed), but make sure anyone accompanying you knows you’re playing in D.
Oh, what you’re saying is that you were playing the version with 5 flats (the key of Db)
transposed up a half step so that it could be played on a D whistle. Now I see.
My daughter’s piano version is in C and a perfectly fine singing pitch. How complicated do you guys have to make things :roll: ?
Trisha
You are correct, as usual.
Again, correct, when taken in context.
Thank you for that symbol reference.
Martin, I was not trying to play the notes as written. I was playing them as if the music was written in D on my D whistle, as noted by a couple of other posters, hense I was a half step different and my description of how I played it. Does that help explanation?
Thanks all. It’s never too early for me to start practicing, I’m a real slow learner. I’ve been playing for a few years and have never attempted to learn a tune by ear. I should give it a go sometime soon, any tips?
I have been playing this song some, the version in the key of D. There was something about the ending that just did not sound familiar to me, something was missing that should sound more powerful. Renee and I figured it out tonight.
In the measure that is four from the end there is an e3 followed by an e. If you change the e to an A I think you may find the ending just a little more familiar and powerful.
You’re right, the “real” climactic ending that’s usually done the last time through is missing. The original vocal sheet music (transposed to D) does this in the last 4 bars:
e3 A | (a2 a/2)g/2f/2e/2 | d2 c d3/4 e/4 | d4
There’s also a long roll over the last C#…