Couple problems in particular.
1)I can’t seem to go from any note at all to a D w/o it becoming shrill, or not even…hearable…er, audible I guess. I know I am being a moron but I dunno what im doing wrong.
2)I need sheet music! For free! Easy stuff! Limited income! 16 years old!
For Irish traditional music, check out http://www.thesession.org/. However, to learn to play this music, you need to listen a lot, and then you can learn by ear as well as from written music, so what I’d say you need is good recordings… for a start, not necessarily to learn from, but to get a feel for this trad stuff, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk, find the “Launch Radio Player” link and browse through their folk shows. Radio Ireland is said to have a good web site as well, but last time I looked, it was all Windows-only stuff so I’m out. I’m rambling.
For other styles - no idea, sorry.
Sonja
(That didn’t exactly answer the question, may it be helpful nonetheless…)
Well hey, it is twice as much info as I had 20 minutes ago. And let me say this, HOLY CRAP this board is refreshing, I am a gamer and I am used to posting on gamer type boards…nothing but trash talk. I was afraid I was gonna get smacked aroundfor being new
. yea thanks btw.
don’t forget to check the Virtual Session:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/folk/acoustic_club/launch.shtml
and - for sheet music - there is JC’s tunefinder:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html
last not least, Henrik Norbeck’s site:
http://www.norbeck.nu/
You could also check out Dale’s tune of the month right here on C&F.
As to your Feadog squeaking, they all do that when you first get them. You have to tweak them to get them to sound normal. You take a small pea sized glob of sticky tack and drop it down from the open end of the whistle to the fipple, then get a small rod or dowel and tamp it down to fill the empty space there. It’ll sound lots better right away.
Hi Genkai,
I ddin’t need to tweak my Feadog at all to get it playing nice - but sometimes it helps.
Try playing a G (three fingers down) and then working down to D one finger at a time. You’re probably just blowing too hard. Then start at D and go up to higher D, in the second octave, i.e. a whole scale of D. You hav to blow harder to get the second octave to sound.