Christmas tunes for whistle
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Christmas tunes for whistle
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.
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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.
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Thanks again, khl and Redwolf!khl wrote:See this posted last year:
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... =christmas
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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.
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.
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Congratulations wrote:Whoa! You for real? If so: P I M PTweeto wrote:bass sax
All of the other instruments I mentioned are being played by other people. I'm playing the flute part on the sop whistle.
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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:Tweeto wrote:?Congratulations wrote:Whoa! You for real? If so: P I M PTweeto wrote:bass sax
All of the other instruments I mentioned are being played by other people. I'm playing the flute part on the sop whistle.
Bass saxophone; don't ask me why it's sideways.
Bari sax; not small, but certainly smaller than the bass.
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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).
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).
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Re: Christmas tunes for whistle
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.
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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).
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