"Sound effects" (vid included)

Whistle
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I downloaden this wid and i’m absolutely amazed! (annybody have more by him???)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VKoMBFOaTXk
But how doe the "wiggles"in the misic work? He doesn’t do it with his finger. Is it tounging? Or something else?

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Yeah, it’s tonguing… sound’s like he’s using something similar to the “t-k-t” method (or a variation there of).

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Weird. I’ve never heard that much triple tonguing in ITM…

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Indeed, I can’t decide if I like it or not. It doesn’t sound bad per se but it’s definitely something that’d have to be used sparingly.

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Here’s my brief description of triple tonguing:
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?p=641335&highlight=#641335

And here’s an interesting interview with Brian Finnegan where he discusses his technique:
http://www.firescribble.net/flute/finnegan.html

Bas, check out Flook, Brian’s band. Search for Flook on YouTube. Brian’s quirky articulation, phrasing and syncopation are very much a part of his characteristic sound.

http://www.flook.co.uk/

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Thanks for the tips. Flook is amazing indeed (long live soulseek :wink:)

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brian finnigan has a CD rom video out , by mad for trad.com-------------------------he is great but there are better ways to play that tune -too much tonguing i think----as a matter of fact i am learning that one myself with more ornamentation

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I think that’s a pretty terrible playing of that tune.

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I agree, that was awful.

Here’s a much better recording:
http://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/ryegrass.html

And another:
http://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/rollingmicho.html

And a version not on the whistle:
http://www.kittylieover.com/mp3/woman.mp3

There’s a few other versions linked to here.

You people should get out more.

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It depends on where you learn the music.

One of my first teachers was a fiddle player from Northern Ireland.
His whistle technique mirrored his fiddling style - lots of triplets like this.

I think that video is ripped from the Mad for Trad CD. I don’t own the CD, but looks like that is a section where he is teaching tongued triplets and he is playing a lot of them to demonstrate the technique.

Mukade

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I think Brian’s style works really well in the context of Flook (one of my favorite bands). In a more traditional context, I don’t care much for all the tonguing. I think the tune in question is purposefully slowed down and played mechanically as a demonstration for beginners (as some have already suggested) so it’s not a really good example of Brian’s skill on the whistle.

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Here’s Flook video for the lazy :stuck_out_tongue::

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emdvW9HB1oM

The “Wrong Foot Forward” set from their CD “Haven”.

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actually Bill Ochs does a nice rendition in the Clarke tunebook------------------------his notes are not always the same in a couple places ---------but he ornaments and does second octave E’s instead of lower ones