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I.D.10-t wrote:

monkey wrote: but they had this big card rack full of these flageolets in all sorts of keys.

Did it look like this?

Yeah EXACTLY like that !

my main difficulty at the moment is to go from high D -to- low D quickly. i get a kind of pressure blockage going on & the low D gets stuck as a high.

Good grief. Is the GM in the chorus supposed to have a capitol M (as in Major chord) or is that a typo? If that's actually minor, then what is this, Gdorian, or maybe Gmix? I'm still getting the hang of that... Either way, you'd probably want a Bb whistle (or use a C and maybe leave out the E's). ....

IDAwHOa wrote:http://praisewhistlers.org/pwboard/viewtopic.php?t=106

Try that thread for more discussion on this.

thanks nice link

Trad-sounding: 1,3,5 as goal-tones. Kwela-sounding: 3,5,7 as goal-tones. Super-funky-sounding: 5,7,9 as goal tones. Superdeduper-funky: you're never more than a semitone away from a really great note. Suggestions from a long-time jazzer who is cursed with a love of diatonic instruments. From what I...

I went over to the music shop in Barnet today to see if there were any sweetones in D. (I had borrowed one off a friend and i think he will want it back soon) anyway they didn't have any :( but they had this big card rack full of these flageolets in all sorts of keys. I didn't get one because I deci...

Hi Monkey First of all I'm not speaking from an experience from Irish music as the majority in this forum, I have my backgroung in Danish trad. music. Playing the Böehm Flute. Usualy I just play the melodi line. But if I want to play a litle, one of the things to do is sort of "bubble" on...

Gunslinger wrote:I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Take the basic chord 'C' it contains the notes C-E-G.

from the C major scale -C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C-

The Root note is C- E(third)- G(fifth)

Dminor would be D(root)- F(third)- A(fifth)

I took my sweetone up to the park earlier and i blew & blew and Blew & BLEW! :D finally i could get to play scarborough fare in the upper octave, seven times out of ten. I was freezing when i got home though... :lol: for an instrument that everyone says "It's easy to play" the whis...

I was just wondering about when you are playing over chords, what is the way whistlers tend to play? guitarists will tend towards the 3rd, 5th and 7th notes of the scale being played. is there any similarity in styles between whistlers and guitarists? or do you tend towards other notes? at the momen...

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I do feel your questions are premature. Play all your whistles almost everyday for 6 months. Be open to your own experiences. Play and play. Sick of ITM one day. Then just doodle about on it that day. Play by the pool. Playing is the tool. Play and play and then one day you will be able to pick up ...

would a lower pitch sound more flutey and gentle to play Yes, but you can still get a high D that's pleasant. Not all of them sound ghastly. Some are less foul than others. Might we ask what whistle you're playing? . ok its a waltons irish whistle in D, but i also have a battered old sweetone which...

Could be the whistle, could be you are overblowing from the 1st octave straight to the third, could be that you aren't completely covering one of the finger holes and so you have a leak, or it could just be that you've just now found you don't like high pitched whistles, in which case you may want ...

It's getting to me! :swear: :D I think it must be my blowing, as its fine for a moment, the note sounds lovely, then SHREEK!!! it jumps again..... It's almost certainly your technique. Remember, don't "blow" into the whistle...just breath gently into it. Experiment one note at a time unti...