Hi all,
I’m learning the song “The Rising of the Moon” and I have a question about it. In what I think is the 16th measure, there’s the grace notes of “EDC” and for the fingerings of it, it’s showing you play the “E” as OXXXXO instead of XXXXXO - the way I normally play an “E” on my whistle. When I play it as shown, it makes a breathy, vibrating sound - is it supposed to do this?
Imagine peace,
Sara
“Possession isn’t 9/10 of the law, it’s 9/10 of the problem.” - John Lennon
[ This Message was edited by: Sara on 2002-01-11 22:27 ]
You’re right, that tablature for E sure looks like a misprint. What book or music are you playing from?
Best wishes, Tom
P.S. Just looked at this again and if you play your normal first octave E and then quickly raise and lower the top finger it gives you a nice cut on E at least on my whistle. The complete sequence would be x x x x x o, o x x x x o, x x x x x o. I hope this solves the mystery!
[ This Message was edited by: Tom_Gaul on 2002-01-11 23:54 ]
Hey, Sara!
That is a great song, full or great themes, courage, tragedy, and a thought- (and discussion-) provoking ending… I arranged it for choir once. My arrangement didn’t even remotely do it justice, but that’s a risk you take. It was worth a try.
I have no insight into your question; I just wanted to tell you I approve of your song choice.
That’s one of my favorites… especially the version done by The Dubliners.
There will never be another Luke Kelly, and I think that recording was one of his best.
Good luck learning it, and I too am quite certain that the OXXXXO E is a misprint.
Tom_Gaul:
The book I’m learning it from is called “Step One: Teach Yourself Pennywhistle”. I didn’t see the p.s. you added, I’m about to go try that in a minute -
thanks!
WyoBadger:
I totally agree with you. I heard it one the C.D. that came with my pennywhistle book and I was like “I have to learn that!” It’s got such a haunting sound to it. Another song that I’m going to be learning soon is “Kevin Berry” (is that how you spell it?). It’s so pretty and in a slight way, sort of sounds like “The Rising of the Moon”.
raindog1970:
I’ve never heard of The Dubliners - are they an Irish group? And is Luke Kelly part of The Dubliners?
On 2002-01-12 12:27, Sara wrote:
raindog1970:
I’ve never heard of The Dubliners - are they an Irish group? And is Luke Kelly part of The Dubliners?
Never heard of The Dubliners???
E-mail me, and I’ll see to it that you get to hear some songs by my favorite Irish group.
Luke Kelly did a good part of the vocals for the group, but he died in 1984.
Ciarán Bourke, who did most of the tinwhistle playing, died shortly thereafter in 1988.
They are still together and recording new songs, and have recorded quite a large number of songs since they formed in 1962.
Here are a couple of good websites to visit if you’re interested in learning more: http://www.geocities.com/toeye/dubliners/index.htm http://imol.vub.ac.be/Dubliners/
Spent the weekend reorganizing my CDs and whistle books and discovered I had a copy of Play Pennywhistle that I had bought for my son to learn good music but instead he continues to play bass guitar in his rock band! The strange E is not incorrect after all because it is probably assumed that the second octave D that comes before the grace notes is played with the top finger up. By just quickly flicking the bottom finger up and down you get the E, D grace notes with a minimum of finger movement. The E is just a fast rhythmic ornament that is good enough with the strange fingering. An alternative would be to play the Preceding D with your top finger down and then when you flick your bottom finger up and down you’ll be using a true E fingering. Use whatever method is easier and sounds O.K.
raindog1970:
Okay - I’ll e-mail you to tomorrow - I’m curious as to find out what the Dubliners sound like! I checked out those links you gave me by the way! The Dubliners have been around a long time!
Tom_Gaul:
Really - I’m glad to know that it wasn’t a misprint because if it had been, I would have been wondering if anything else in the book was wrong - thanks for telling me by the way! I’ll try the different methods and find which one sounds best! Thanks.
