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I've just bought Eileen Iver's "Crossing the Bridge"! - The owner of this small music shop is a true wizard. He's been able to lay his hands on a brand new CD eventhough they're out of production. It took him six weeks to get it, but the price wasn't higher than it used to be! :party: :par...

For me learning a tune from dots does not make me a slave to the written music, and I like to internalize the music as quick as possible, then the dots serve only at times as a prop, to remember how part A or B starts etc., until it is all in heart and fingers. - Maybe what you say it true for some...

Let me first admit that when it comes to fingering, half-holing and such related skills are about at the bottom of the list of things I can do, indeed, for the most part I've given up on them as being practically hopeless, at least as far as my skills go. Yes, there are a couple of easier ones, but...

I could hardly disagree more with that approach. Follow the dots, and you'll always follow the dots, even if they're just in your head. The answer is to listen. Then listen again. And again. Then some more. Do it 'til you can't help humming the tune to yourself all day. Get the sound of the one rec...

What a nice topic. I play Jazz standards and Torch songs on whistles and flutes. I like the sound of sliding my finger off a hole. Off the top of my head, which is filled with sinus infection: Stormy Weather Somebody Loves Me What'll I Do Fever There, my head is done thinking. Oh dear. I hope you'l...

Back to slow airs, now.

I've just come across "The Gentle Breeze" on Carey's homepage... It sounds so wonderful, I could listen to the tune for hours on end. Definitely one of the next I'm going to learn after I've overcome my problem with "Blind Mary".

:lol: :lol: :lol: Thank God, it happens to someone else, too! This is soooo anoying. MT, have you developed any tricks over the years to stop this from happening? No matter how hard I try, I always end up playing "Please don't take my sunshine away" and then continue playing the whole &quo...

No whistles in the field of blues music, huh? That's why I've postet this one in the poststructural pub rather than in one of the other forums.

Could be interesting, though, but to me it is still unheard-of.

But the sean nos airs cannot be learned from the "white page". Their timing cannot be forced into mathematical precision. The only way to learn those (and the best way to learn any Irish music) is to get a good recording of it and play along until you have it. True. I don't want to use do...

Congratulations!

Is this a scene you've imagined or an actual still life from your yard? It's excellent! My sister's one of those artistic people, too. Wish I could draw/"dot" anywhere near as good as the two of you, but alas all the talent was given to her.

I'll get ya'll hooked on making instruments yet! Don't worry about that. Madness struck a long time ago when I first researched whistles on the net and found one could built them oneself and everything to do with plastic or wooden tubes became my new obsession. I see an elder tree? I can imagine wh...

Blind Mary really sounds nice. - I'm definitely going to learn it by heart. Though I don't think it's going to be easy for me. There's this one part that sounds very much like the middle part of "You are my sunshine", a song I had to sing a lot back in 2001. So, everytime I get to this sec...

Here's another question from my ever curious self: What are your favorite blues songs? I'm quite fascinated with the sound of flat notes. To me they sound so much more interesting, especially when there are changes between different intonations throughout a song. "Blues" is defined here in...

So this program turns ABC into dots? Sounds like I have found a solution to all my problems. :thumbsup: Once I've listened to a tune for several times, I'm able to play it but I often find myself unable to write it down in legible dots. So with this program sloppy hand-writing shouldn't be an issue ...

Sorry, been away a few days. Yes those are dots...... though Jim has covered that better than I. Never mind, Phill. I've only been able to make it back online tonight, so no problems with the delay there. Squidgirl, thanks for all the links. I'm going to look them up soon and unravel the mystery th...