Christmas tunes for whistle

Flogging Jason · Post by **Flogging Jason** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:22 pm

So....the Employee Xmas party is a few weeks away and I'd like to find some tunes to play. One of my co-workers plays guitar and he's gonna come over and learn some music with me that we can play together at the party. I have a few books that have Christmas songs and chords(namely Fifer's Delightful Companion and a whistle book by Mel Bay) but I'm looking for a couple "modern" tunes. I can figure by ear any old tunes I don't have notation for but "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Winter Wonderland" have been giving me fits!!! I just want to know if anyone has a link to some whistle friendly versions of these and possibly other 20th century Xmas tunes.

Happy Holidays, Jason

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:37 pm

Can't help you with new tunes, but get a hold of the European version of Away in a Manger. It's different and really nice.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:37 pm

Well, the problem with "modern" tunes is that they're going to be copyrighted, which means it's not going to be as easy to find them...

khl · Post by **khl** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:57 pm

See this posted last year:
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... =christmas

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:26 pm

khl wrote:See this posted last year:
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... =christmas

Thanks again, khl and Redwolf!

Tweeto · Post by **Tweeto** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:07 pm

I’ll be performing Jingle Bell Rock

The only uncertainty I have is whether
or not an irish music sound fits in a swing song,
what with the other instruments being trombone,
bass sax, clarinet, and violin. I’m starting to
wonder if a soprano whistle isn’t inappropriately high,
because the director keeps talking about needing
a flute player to join us.

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:19 pm

Tweeto wrote:bass sax

Whoa! You for real? If so: P I M P

Tweeto · Post by **Tweeto** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:27 pm

Congratulations wrote:
Tweeto wrote:bass sax
Whoa! You for real? If so: P I M P

All of the other instruments I mentioned are being played by other people. I'm playing the flute part on the sop whistle.

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:29 pm

Tweeto wrote:
Congratulations wrote:
Tweeto wrote:bass sax
Whoa! You for real? If so: P I M P
?
All of the other instruments I mentioned are being played by other people. I'm playing the flute part on the sop whistle.

Yeah, that's what I thought. It's just that rather few people play the bass sax. Lots play baritone sax, though. I just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same instrument. Here's comparison:

Bass saxophone; don't ask me why it's sideways.

Bari sax; not small, but certainly smaller than the bass.

Tweeto · Post by **Tweeto** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:46 pm

It must be the baritone then.

I'll probably have to record the next practice,
to determine whether a sop whistle is
appropriate for this song, or if the director is
just being nice by letting me play it
(she was pretty harsh about the intonation of a
Generation whistle that I once,
unfortunately, tried to use).

mpop · Post by **mpop** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:00 pm

A friend of mine gave me this site http://www.ChristmasSongBook.net You will have to find the ones that are in the Key you can play, but I got a few from there.

NoMattch · Post by **NoMattch** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:03 am

"Greensleeves" always sounds really nice on whistle and is Christmasesque thanks to "What Child is This".
It also works well with a 2 part whistle harmony and/or Low whistle & High whistle accompaniment.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:12 pm

Oh, by the way, speaking of that thread (and my Christmas tunes site), if anyone's interested, I finally found the source of "The Holly Hornpipe." Believe it or not, it's Welsh, and can be found on JC's Tunefinder under the name "The Holly"! I was glad to learn it's a traditional, as I worried for ages about using someone else's intellectual property (but it was too good a tune not to share, and the CD never bothered to credit it).

Redwolf

Gunslinger · Post by **Gunslinger** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:33 am

I think "Winter Wonderland" is super easy to play on the whistle. You said that you can play by ear so give it a try or better yet, don't try, just do it!

- Just did it! -

BR,
Heikki Petäjistö

Tony McGinley · Post by **Tony McGinley** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:35 am

The "Wexford Carol" is a really beautiful Irish Christmas tune and works very well on the whistle.

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