New (original) whistle music

Happy new year!

For anyone who might be interested here is an original composition of mine featuring Low D, High D and Alto A whistles:

https://soundcloud.com/waynerowley76/dreaming-tomorrow

Would be interested in any feedback.

Thanks!

Wayne

Well done! :smiley:


That bad eh?

:smiley:

So much for feedback. :really:

I do feel I need to point out the evident: the whistles are flat to the accompaniment. Or the accompaniment is sharp to the whistles. Makes it hard to listen to. You’ll want to fine-tune that.

Apologies - when I replied to the thread last night there had been no replies (hence my comment). When I looked this morning your reply was in front of mine!?

Forum issues perhaps…

But thank you!

Sorry, see my previous reply - some interleaving of replies in the forum meant my reply to my original post has been listed out of sync.

I do feel I need to point out the evident: the whistles are flat to the accompaniment. Or the accompaniment is sharp to the whistles. Makes it hard to listen to. You’ll want to fine-tune that.

Yes, that is the low whistle I think, which is not tunable. I struggle with it in the low register as it requires so little air - if I try and ‘play’ it in tune it either breaks up or goes to the higher register.

Wayne

The second whistle is also flat. Then there’s one not long after which in contrast is sharp to the accompaniment, and then there’s another such. Then one or two seem to be in tune with the accompaniment, so you have it sharp, flat, and on. In addition, the general intonation of each whistle seems to be off as well, but I’m in no position to know whether this is due to the playing, or to the whistles themselves. The big issue for you here is to get everything reasonably in tune as one, for in this recording you’re too far off in every direction to call it close enough. It’s important. If you want people to enjoy your work, you won’t be able to get away with ignoring it. You can have the most brilliant composition ever, but if it’s out of tune, that’s all that people will hear. Fortunately this is something you can control, and all it takes is a little care, attention, and good choices with your instrumentation.

Sorry to be so blunt, but since you asked for feedback I thought your future efforts could benefit from this bit of guidance.

CCCP#2 issue is what it is. Unfortunately this can at times lead to a somewhat bizarre result such as happened here, but the new member approval system’s set up that way and there’s not a lot to be done about it. Think of it as … Poststructural.