I recently aquired the book The Complete Irish Tinwhistle Tunebook by L.E. McCullough which is to go along with a standard D whistle. In this book , there are several D notes (the lowest d the high d whistle plays) where it is required of me to roll that note. Im not seeing how this is possible, so if anyone happens to know the correct fingering for the roll on this note, please help.
Thank you for your time,
Silas
Silas, since nobody else has answered your question, I’ll try to explain what’s going on. Since, as you have observed, you can’t play a regular roll on D, you do what’s called a cran. Basically you play the D and cut it a few times (usually three) using a different finger for each cut. Maybe you can do a web search for “cran” and get a detailed explanation.
[ This Message was edited by: Ridseard on 2003-01-09 23:05 ]
Thank you much for the help.
Welcome!
If you’re new to whistling, don’t worry about that roll, or any other rolls for a while. You have enough to concern yourself with just getting the notes out, breathing, etc. Better to play a tune cleanly, honestly, and without ornaments than try to ornament it and have the whole thing sounding sloppy. It will all come…
An alternative to a roll, when you’re ready to try ornaments, is a triple, i.e. break the note into 3 equal parts.
I like to think of those roll ornaments as “put your own bit of business in here. Season to taste”.