Need O Holy Night, please

mujo · Post by **mujo** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:55 pm

I've tried JC's tunefinder and only got some gibberish and Wandering whistlers site doesn't have it. Can anyone help?

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:16 pm

Kinda early, isn't it? Oh, all right:

http://www.musicaviva.com/midi/music.tp ... ight-voca4
ABC's at the bottom.

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:43 pm

http://jc.tzo.net:1742/~jc/cgi/abc/gett ... yNight.pdf

JohnPalmer · Post by **JohnPalmer** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:30 pm

Why don't you try a real live music store that sells sheet music? Or learn to play it by ear.

JP

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:52 pm

it's not too early if you want to get it perfect by Christmas.

BTW, I think there is a version in Clips and Snips played on a Burke by Ridseard. I remember hearing it once.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:05 pm

I was pretty amazed tonight (which is not TOO hard to do). I looked at the song and saw 5 flats.

Not one

Not two

Not three

or Four

but FIVE of the suckers.

So I said what the heck, got out my "new" Burke Composite Low D and started playing. Know what? It sounded perfect. NO WAY! Only tough note was the 'Gnat" part way through, but it was managable.

Who'da thunk it. A new tool to use.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:03 am

NorCalMusician wrote:So I said what the heck, got out my "new" Burke Composite Low D and started playing. Know what? It sounded perfect. NO WAY! Only tough note was the 'Gnat" part way through, but it was managable.

I'm confused. Why would a Gnatural be hard on a low D whistle? Maybe on a Db whistle...

dlovrien · Post by **dlovrien** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:07 am

If you're playing a D whistle, I'd recommend getting the version in D that slowair posted...

Norcal, you didn't use enough

for us to tell whether you were kidding or not about playing Db on a D whistle. Are you really that good a half-holer?

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:00 am

fearfaoin wrote:
NorCalMusician wrote:So I said what the heck, got out my "new" Burke Composite Low D and started playing. Know what? It sounded perfect. NO WAY! Only tough note was the 'Gnat" part way through, but it was managable.
I'm confused. Why would a Gnatural be hard on a low D whistle? Maybe on a Db whistle...

Here is a snip from the dots:

5 flats, including a Gb. When the Gb is played on a D whistle is sounds by playing XXX OOO. Sooooooo when you put the natural on it you have to play it as G# (not Gb which is how I THINK I was trying to play it last night. :roll: ). G# on a D is a LOT easier to half hole and there may even be a cross fingering you can figure out that is even easier. Anyway, that is the only note in this version that is tough to play. I just thought it was cool that it was so easy to play a song in that key would translate to the D whistle so readily!!! Music (a form of math?) really amazes me.

I did not check out the D version because it was not there when I was messing with this or missed it (most likely). I will check it out. This one is pretty nice though.

Joe_Atlanta · Post by **Joe_Atlanta** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:32 am

Total of flats and sharps add up to 7, all the diatonic notes. You ignore the key signature, play it like it was in D. Raise any accidentals by a 1/2 step.

Works for any of the letter keys (like E and Eb) except for C and F where the key immediately below is on a different staff line. Of course you're not actually playing in the flat key, you're playing up the half step in the key of the whistle.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:35 am

NorCalMusician wrote:
5 flats, including a Gb. When the Gb is played on a D whistle is sounds by playing XXX OOO. Sooooooo when you put the natural on it you have to play it as G# (not Gb which is how I THINK I was trying to play it last night. :roll: ). G# on a D is a LOT easier to half hole and there may even be a cross fingering you can figure out that is even easier. Anyway, that is the only note in this version that is tough to play. I just thought it was cool that it was so easy to play a song in that key would translate to the D whistle so readily!!! Music (a form of math?) really amazes me.

I did not check out the D version because it was not there when I was messing with this or missed it (most likely). I will check it out. This one is pretty nice though.

I thought a Gb was the same as an F# or XXX XOO on a D whistle.

Put a Natural on it, it's a G natural, or XXX OOO.

G# is half holing the G hole, sometimes written XXV OOO (by me).

I thought...

OutOfBreath · Post by **OutOfBreath** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:47 am

This one includes whistle tab and midi...

http://www.guitarnut.com/folktablature/ ... night.html

dlovrien · Post by **dlovrien** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:52 am

NorCalMusician wrote:Here is a snip from the dots:

5 flats, including a Gb. When the Gb is played on a D whistle is sounds by playing XXX OOO. Sooooooo when you put the natural on it you have to play it as G#...

So you are fingering it in D, not Db. If you are fingering it the way you say and you perform it with a piano playing in Db, you will be playing a half-step off. It works well that way (only the G# half-holed), but make sure anyone accompanying you knows you're playing in D.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:00 am

NorCalMusician wrote:When the Gb is played on a D whistle is sounds by playing XXX OOO. Sooooooo when you put the natural on it you have to play it as G# (not Gb which is how I THINK I was trying to play it last night. :roll: ).

Oh, what you're saying is that you were playing the version with 5 flats (the key of Db)
transposed up a half step so that it could be played on a D whistle. Now I see.

trisha · Post by **trisha** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:16 am

My daughter's piano version is in C and a perfectly fine singing pitch. How complicated do you guys have to make things :roll: ?

Trisha

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