Versatility of the Whistle

Whistle
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A friend of mine, that I used to play in a rock band with, is always recording things and sending them to me so that I can play lead guitar parts over them. It’s all in fun to begin with so this time around I played a little bit with his mind… :laughing:

MLRS

It’s about as far from ITM as you’re gonna get, but I think the whistle is kewl in it and it certainly shows the versatility of this instrument! :wink:

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That is way cool!!! I must let my whistle teacher hear it!

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Is that one of your home made whistles? :slight_smile:

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I bet your music teacher will get a kick out of that! :laughing:

Yep, it’s a Soprano D Groovewhistle :wink:

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I love it! :laughing:

Tery

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Hi, Michael.

The whistle sounds absolutely right in that piece. Totally cool.

Best wishes,
Jerry

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I love it!
What a great mixture of the old and new.. one of the world’s most ancient instruments with one of the newer ones! And it sounds perfect. Fun stuff. :smiley:

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That is way cool!!! I must let my whistle teacher hear it!

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Awesome! That sounds great.

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Are you improvising using a pentatonic scale?

I ask because…

  1. It’s the sort of thing I do, although not often.

  2. If not, how do you play the guitar and whistle at the same time ? :wink:

Very good.

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I liked that. I also like to use whistles, layered or alone, in all sorts of contexts—jazz, blues, rock—and not just in folk or celtic settings.

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This sounds like rock and/or roll.

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Sweet! I like it. A friend of mine is a major hair freak (although it is cut now :slight_smile: ) and we used to do some stuff kinda like that, just because it freaked out his wife!! :smiley:

I never thought to make it a nifty melody like that though, I just ripped with mostly the 2nd ocatave…

Very cool. I likey, keep it up and you never know where it just might go!

Take care all,
John


"I was thinking upon the immortal words of Socrates who said… ‘I drank what?!’ " (Val Kilmer - Real Genius)

Edited for general lack of gramatical structure and spelling! :smiley:



[ This Message was edited by: McHaffie on 2003-02-23 13:23 ]

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i like it a lot ;D. i was hoping to do something like that one day with many different types of instruments. see how far i can push things before too may walls are broken, hehe.

keep up the good work man

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Thanks for the compliments everyone! To be honest it was meant as a joke to my friend who was expecting some blazing lead on my seven string… :laughing:

But then after hearing the whistle with it, I kinda liked it. Go figure! :laughing:

Yes, it’s based on the E minor pentatonic scale. I never woulda guessed that I could get that scale out of a soprano D whistle.

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Hi, Mike.

On each equal tempered whistle, there are three keys that are a good fit (not taking into account other modal possibilities.):

  1. The primary major key (D on a D whistle),

  2. The secondary major key (G on a D whistle), and

  3. The relative minor to the secondary major key (E on a D whistle)

On a just intonation whistle, the E minor should work on a D Whistle that’s just intonation tuned for the G scale.

If you’re using a pentatonic scale with a just intonation whistle, you may have more leeway. I did the math once and found that there are two “wolf notes” (notes that are badly out of tune in the new key) in the secondary major key of a whistle that’s just intonation tuned for its primary major key. It may be that using a pentatonic scale leaves out those wolf notes, but I wouldn’t know without going back over the math.

Best wishes,
Jerry

[ This Message was edited by: Jerry Freeman on 2003-02-23 15:38 ]