Hi all,
I have a lot of different whistle keys, and I've found playing along with tracks to be a very natural way to check the tuning. Tracks in D and G and A are easy to come by, but does anyone have good tracks that would work for the less common keys, like Ab, F#, etc? Ideally, they'd cover the full range of a whistle (up to the high B equivalent).
Currently, I use an album of session tunes for D, 'The Immigrant' played by Joanie Madden for C whistles, and 'Fly' by Brian Finnegan for alto A whistles, and 'Ellie Goes West' for E. Does anyone have a favorite track played in a less common key?
Thanks,
Nathaniel
Tunes by Key for tuning
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Re: Tunes by Key for tuning
Hey Nathaniel, check out Bayview by Project Smok. Toria's is played on an F#. There are couple other interesting keys in there.
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Re: Tunes by Key for tuning
Wow! That's exactly the sort of thing I was looking for (and a group I'd never heard of before as a bonus).psoutowood wrote:Hey Nathaniel, check out Bayview by Project Smok. Toria's is played on an F#. There are couple other interesting keys in there.
-Peter
Toria's is particularly good for tuning, since it has so many slow parts. Good for noodling too.
Toria's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCYldpZ8jbc
The Fear Polkas is another one of their tracks that sounds like it's on the F#:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RT6p7iqCoM
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Re: Tunes by Key for tuning
F whistle
https://youtu.be/4cP8z8eRBiM
https://youtu.be/4cP8z8eRBiM
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Re: Tunes by Key for tuning
I have a suspicion that he doesn't mean *that* Foleorezinator wrote:F whistle
https://youtu.be/4cP8z8eRBiM
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Re: Tunes by Key for tuning
I use pitch-shifting software to adjust favorite tuning-reference tracks to match the key of whatever whistle I'm evaluating. On desktop I use a Chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... ejda?hl=en that works great with Youtube and YouTube Music. I've also had good results with the mobile apps Amazing Slow Downer and Music Speed Changer.
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Re: Tunes by Key for tuning
Not sure if this is the kind of thing you are looking for, but I like these two tracks played on low F whistles:
Phil Hardy: May Morning Dew:
https://youtu.be/ZVFLQhzBVfY
Erwan Menguy: Yellow Flowers:
https://youtu.be/xj-tsOcFlrE
And these on Bb by Kevin Crawford: Dear Irish Boy, The Hole in the Boat, Sally Sloane's, The Tinker's Frolic:
https://youtu.be/XFDtF-78rQ0
Phil Hardy: May Morning Dew:
https://youtu.be/ZVFLQhzBVfY
Erwan Menguy: Yellow Flowers:
https://youtu.be/xj-tsOcFlrE
And these on Bb by Kevin Crawford: Dear Irish Boy, The Hole in the Boat, Sally Sloane's, The Tinker's Frolic:
https://youtu.be/XFDtF-78rQ0