A few months ago I stumbled on a web site that displayed animated fingering for tunes from its searchable database. It allowed the user to set the timing (bpm) and was very useful since it had the “Humours of Tuaimgreine” in its tune list. Since then I have hade a computer crash and lost all of my “favorites”. I have been searching for the site without success can anyone help me out?
Almost certainly not this one: http://www.fullbodyburn.com/
I’m almost certain this is the site you’re looking for:
http://www.whistleaway.com/whistletutorial.asp
[I know its an old bump, but its informative (especially for beginners).]
I’ve just had a look at that site - the tutuorial may be informative for beginners (the graphics are certainly amusing) but they should steer well clear of the Questions section. It appears that anyone can answer as well as ask a question and some of the answers posted are downright dodgy! (If I’ve misunderstood and the answers are not a free-for-all, that’s even worse.)
eg :
"I have a whistle in D, and I was wondering how to finger F natural. Would I just cover half of the hole that is 4th from top?
Asked by:Sarah
Put your fingers on the first four holes.Thats an F "
er… no, it isn’t, she’s expressly asked about F natural not F#
or:
"I can play regular notes, but i don’t know how to play all the sharps and flats. is there a tutorial for them? if not, what is the fingering?
Asked by:Talysha
Hi Talysha, The fingering is the same for the higher notes you just need to blow the whistle a little harder and sharper. For the lower noted you might not be able to play them on your whistle, for these you may need a whistle in a lower key, they do generally have the same fingering however."
She didn’t ask about high notes, she asked about accidentals.
… and so on.
Some of the answers are ok, but a beginner might not be able to discriminate. So, use with care.
I didn’t check the questions section before, so I didn’t realize that just anyone can answer questions till just now (Yes, its a free-for-all unfortunately). So I do agree with you about reading the answers with care.
At least the tutorial is nice and worthy.
I just checked out the tutorial section quickly. I tried the first steps - didn’t spend enough time to form an opinion.
Then I tried the ‘Musical Scales’.
1: the scale is a D scale but there is no key signature or accidentals in front of the F and C notes which sound F# and C#
2: I guess it really is a recording of a whistle (and not a computer generated tone) because the top three notes (octave g, a, b) are so very flat.
3: So I went on to briefly check the ‘Beginners Tutorial’ (sic) - listened, not a bad idea, but sounded wrong - so I got out a tuner, the B, A, G are about 80, and 60 cents sharp! That means it would be more correct to say they are C, A#, G#.
And just like the ‘Musical Scales’ the player plays F# but the written note is F - could be misleading/confusing for a beginner.
And on we go - finally some sharp symbols when we get to some tunes, unfortunately they are displaced down a bit on the staff so the key signature is E#, and A# (yes they are displaced down different amounts so it probably not just my browser messing it up - and no I did not take the time to check with the 9 (or so) other browsers I have on my computer - well I guilted myself into taking a quick peek with one, and Opera looks the same as Safari on OS X. Though this also meant I checked out the Karaoke section and again no key signatures, though the tuning was closer - the one I played being about 30 cents sharp, terribly distorted.
I wouldn’t recommend this site to a beginner, I do like the idea, just too many errors.
Wow! That really is a shame. I do like the layout and overall idea of the site but with so much wrong with it as has been pointed out, that just really hurts the site more than anything else. Hopefully the creator(s) can get on top of these problems and get them taken care of and have a decent and more accurate tutors page. 