Looking for Irish music in whistle tab
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Re: Looking for Irish music in whistle tab
Probably because he has a sense of humor that you simply don't grasp.
I thought the little rant was quite funny, actually, and not something worthy of a scolding...
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I thought the little rant was quite funny, actually, and not something worthy of a scolding...
Welcome to the forum, Killthemessenger... Here, the future and the past collide. Here, the old and the young clash whenever the latter aren't overtly brown-nosing the former. Here all things are possible, and all things meet their opposites. Oh, and sometimes we talk about whistles too - you know, after the personality indexing is finished and all...
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Do you think so?Probably because he has a sense of humor that you simply don't grasp.
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It's not too often that I read purely offensive things on this site.Probably because he has a sense of humor that you simply don't grasp.
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Before a fist fight starts over my sense of humour, let me just state: I don't have one.
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Food fight Aisle 16!
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Been away for a while, eh? Welcome back...NicoMoreno wrote:It's not too often that I read purely offensive things on this site.Probably because he has a sense of humor that you simply don't grasp.
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Oh dear - that's what I'll be doing this weekend, with a harmonium thrown in for good measure.killthemessenger wrote:I will give you this though, Gumby - the tabla/whistle thing was pretty clichéd. I don't even like fusion music myself.
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Hey, everyone, look!...an optimist.killthemessenger wrote:Alternatively, you could learn to read music, which should take you an afternoon...
Look, I tried The Macarena already. I just about ended it all right then and there.killthemessenger wrote:...the whistle need not be used exclusively for playing jigs...
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It's called gentle encouragement.Hey, everyone, look!...an optimist.
Last time I "danced" the Macarena, a seventy-five year old grandmother managed to get me into a headlock and thrust her tongue halfway down my throat. In front of my friend, her daughter, who did not, I say did not, intervene to save me from grandmothertonguesuffocation. This was Khushrobagh, Diwali 1998, Bombay - those Parsi women... Needless to say, it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
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The very fact that you even admit to dancing it (never mind citing "Bombay" as the setting ) puts you on my short list.
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That short list was not the good one, just so's you know.
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I feared that, but Bombay Parsi colonies are the kind of place where you can get away with "dancing" the Macarena - indeed, after a certain amount of Old Monk and soda, it's pretty much obligatory.
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Re: Looking for Irish music in whistle tab
Thank you everyone for your input! I'm slowly working through all the various links and websites
I can translate notes- but very slowly. One of the things that got me into this kind of music is how it's so friendly to playing by ear. I've tried and quit piano a couple times, because I just can't deal with reading music (maybe it's the ADD?). Guitar tab online has saved my life, and since it's just for fun, I don't mind not progressing past a certain level b/c I can't read music. BUT- I do understand how useful it can be.
Being able to play by ear has also been the allure of the tin whistle. However, being new to the instrument, having a few different styles of songs with fingering tabs has been a great way to pick up new techniques and learn what notes do and don't work together. The whistle came with the fingering tab for "Amazing Grace", and those notes rearrange into some great Irish-sounding tunes
Cheers!
P.S. I've been using a Generation flageolet in D, but yesterday my Clarke in C arrived. Very surprised at how different the sound is!
I can translate notes- but very slowly. One of the things that got me into this kind of music is how it's so friendly to playing by ear. I've tried and quit piano a couple times, because I just can't deal with reading music (maybe it's the ADD?). Guitar tab online has saved my life, and since it's just for fun, I don't mind not progressing past a certain level b/c I can't read music. BUT- I do understand how useful it can be.
Being able to play by ear has also been the allure of the tin whistle. However, being new to the instrument, having a few different styles of songs with fingering tabs has been a great way to pick up new techniques and learn what notes do and don't work together. The whistle came with the fingering tab for "Amazing Grace", and those notes rearrange into some great Irish-sounding tunes
Cheers!
P.S. I've been using a Generation flageolet in D, but yesterday my Clarke in C arrived. Very surprised at how different the sound is!