So this is for all us Newbies. In simple notation, plus a simple recording - I offer "Silent Night." The notation works for any whistle key you have - just cover the number of holes from the top (top is where your face is, haha), blow a little harder if there's a + because the note is in the second octave. Listen to the recording for simple tune timing - it's played about as simply as can be, with no ornamentation or interpretation.
So you can take your whistle and the notation, hide in the room, garage, car, or outhouse where you are learning whistle - I hide in my bedroom. Take a few minutes and noodle out the tune. Play it again, and again. When you feel satisfied you are doing pretty good, pat yourself on the back. Take your whistle out of your hiding place and play the tune for your fish, dog, spouse, flatmate or any other living thing with an interested and tolerant ear.
Here's the notation:
Notation in a PDF file: http://members.cox.net/tofutaco/SilentN ... 0Night.pdf
Sound file for the tune: http://members.cox.net/tofutaco/SilentN ... 0Night.mp3
The tune is played on an O'Brien Soprano D, all copper (including the fipple) whistle. There's no processing, so you can tell exactly what it sounds like. Here's what my copper body whistle looks like:
There you go. Have fun.
If you are a non-newbie, you read this far, and can still remember what it was like - well I hope the nostalgia is nice. If you can record and post "Silent Night" with ornamentations or interpretation, and simple explanations of what they are and how to do it, that would be dandy. You know that's what we want to do next. After all, you've been here at one time yourself.
Happy Holidays y'all. Maybe I'll do "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" next...
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