I recently got The Complete Irish Tinwhistle Tunebook by L.E. McCullough and i have to say it is a wonderful book. Especially for people like me who learn both by ear and by music. When anyway i was trying to learn this jig called Bímíd Ag ól( anyone who knows how to pronouce please tell me) and in the recording L.E. rolls on a C natural. ANyone know how to do this?
Andrew Cassidy
P.S. Posting this both on the flute and the tin whistle board
Irish pronunciation is all over the map. Where I come from (province of Leinster) it’s
Bee-mead egg ol (that “ol” is like “old” without the d, and the word is stretched out a bit, in the same way that “balm” is stretched out compared to “bomb”.)
Some say
Bee-a-mead
or
Bee-midge
Ornaments on C nat are easier if you use 0xx-x0x, then twiddle the middle finger of right hand up and down.
This is a subject that comes up from time to time, so there are many opinions out there if you do a search.
Depending on the whistle, I usually use:
o x x | o o o
o x x | x x x (cut)
o x x | o o o
x x x | o o o (tap)
o x x | o o o
McCullough (and others) recommend
o x x | x o x
o x x | x x x (cut)
o x x | x o x
x x x | x o x (tap)
o x x | x o x
and I do find this sometimes works better on whistles that don’t have a clean or well-tuned C-natural using the o x x | o o o fingering.
There are yet other folks who feel that there is no sufficiently clean way to roll a C-natural and that you’re better off not trying to learn it.
Many options, many opinions…
–James
Here is my preferred method:
OXX OOX Play C nat
OXX XXX “Cut” is d
OXX OOX C nat
XXX OOX Pat to G
OXX OOX C nat
IIRC, he recommends this fingering for the C nat when rolling:
OXX OXX
I use it a lot in Banish Misfortune.
how about a lazy method;
OXX XOX
OXX OXX
OXX XOX