Wanted: Used copy of "Celtic Back-Up"

Whistle
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Looking for a used (cheap) copy of the Celtic Back-Up book and CD set - Anyone have a copy they want to part with?

Loren

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I’ll trade you mine for a blackwood O’Riordan in D.

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Why Mark,

I’m surprised you didn’t ask for my Olwell. You’re slipping bro…

Loren
P.S. Just wait until you’re actually married, your sense of humour will completely dry up then :laughing:

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Loren - I just got a copy of this for my mom. It’s very good.
Chris

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I am not familiar with the CD set being discussed, but I imagine its a practice type thing with the whistle cut out of the mix. Perhaps this bit of info is helpfull… here goes. There is a tasty bit of software called “decomposer” made by Replay technolgy. It is supposed to effectivly remove one instrument from the mix. The seperated instrument can then be listened to by itself, or the mix can be listened to without that instrument. You can even record yourself, and see how you would sound if you were playing that particular part with (favorite group name here).

Furthermore the seperated track can be run through “CD Looper”. A software package that I know for a fact works very well. It slows down tracks off of CD’s 2-5 times without changing pitch.

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How will this book/CD help
whistlers/whistle-ists to improvise/extemporise please?

Anyone with a copy want to tell us :slight_smile:

Thanks

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On 2002-07-15 10:58, Easily_Deluded_Fool wrote:
How will this book/CD help
whistlers/whistle-ists to improvise/extemporise please?

Anyone with a copy want to tell us > :slight_smile:

Thanks

“Paging Lee Marsh, Paging Lee Marsh, Please pick up a white courtesy phone”

:slight_smile:

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Hmm. Now that I’ve started learning guitar, that might come in handy… I should look into that… good Idea.

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Just a word of caution about Celtic Backup. It’s an excellent resource and the only thing of it’s kind available except for some related material on Chris Smith’s coyotebanjo website. However, it provides no direct instruction on any backup instrument. There are no chord charts. It gives no direct instruction on picking techniques. It does provide some suggested chords for a sample of tunes. But I think Chris would be discouraged if you took those as the final word. You should be prepared to deal with modal theory pretty extensively if you use it. I can’t imagine how it would help with whistle playing.

What it does do is to provide some instruction in modal theory and some stragegies for backup of Irish music. It is a detailed book and is pretty challenging.

I don’t want to discourage anybody from buying it. In fact it’s excellent and unique.

Steve