WFO question

Irish Flute
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I have some questions about the Wooden Flute Obsession CDs.

  1. According to the Irish Flute Store, you need an Eb flute to play along with the CDs. How much of the music is not play-along-able with a regular D flute?

  2. Are these CDs primarily for listening enjoyment or primarily for learning? In other words, are these tunes with just one person playing the flute or are there multiple instruments playing together?

Thanks!

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Kevin Krell provides additional information at http://www.worldtrad.org/

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Groovy. Thank you. It sounds like the best of both worlds. You can listen for enjoyment and to learn.

How much of it do you think cannot be played along with using a D flute? I like to try to learn tunes by listening and trying to play along (usually at 1/2 or 3/4 speed unfortunately.)

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The website gives details of the flutes being played on many of the tracks

eg - http://www.worldtrad.org/WFO_CD2.htm

as you can see, mostly D-flutes. Of course, these are some of the best players in the world, so playing along may take some doing! Although I’ve learned some tunes from the CD’s, I consider their main role to be inspiration, and in that they succeed more than any other recordings I’ve ever heard.

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If you’re using software to slow the tunes down, can’t it also change pitch by a half-step? I use Transcribe, which can change pitch and tempo independently.

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I use transcribe as well. It lets you select the starting/endpoints easier than amazing slowdowner or else cause you have the visual reference of the spectrum.

Cheers,

brotherwind

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I use the Slow Me Down plugin for Winamp available at www.winamp.com. It allows for pitch and tempo shifting of MP3s or CDs.

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Sbfluter, you have discovered a treasure!!!
Those CDs are a PHD course in Irish flute. The artists use just about every kind of flute you will ever hear talked about on this forum and you can go to the CD and listen. You can hear all kinds of different styles and decide what in direction you want to take your own playing. You can hear phrasing of every sort and learn from it. They really are treasures. I have all of them and I am one who does not like “sampler CDs” at all, ever! These are different. I love them!!!
Slowdowner can change the pitch for you as easy as moving a slider…I can’t imagine any other software that would make it easier, but what do I know? Slowdowner works for me.
Jim

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I listen to them every day. They are awesome… inspirational.

…john

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Audacity can do this if you rip the tracks to MP3 or Ogg formats…and Audacity is completely free.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net

–James