D minor?
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D minor?
Could some of you more experienced plyers than I inform me what key of whistle should I play with guitar D minor?
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
Keith
Bionn dha insint ar sceal agus leagon deag ar amhran
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Bionn dha insint ar sceal agus leagon deag ar amhran
There are two versions of every story and twelve of every song
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Re: D minor?
You haven't been reading any of my painstaking posts about the modes, have you?KDMARTINKY wrote:Could some of you more experienced plyers than I inform me what key of whistle should I play with guitar D minor?
Thanks in advance
I have said it so much that its making me vomit - on any simple system finger hole flute or whistle you can get Aeolian mode (the natural minor)
from the one finger tonic or the 5 finger tonic (in which case you will need to cross finger the pipe's 7th for your diminsihed 6th).
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Of course on a D whistle you will need to diminish the 7th (the C#) by cross fingering to get the C (the necessary diminished 7th). And what about the the Bb Henke? Do you cross finger that or half hole it, Henke?Henke wrote:You can play a C whistle in D minor just as you would play E minor on a D whistle. You can play D minor on a D whistle as well, but you'll need to half hole the F# to bring it down to F natural (third note up).
Thats a lot of friggin about to get a D min on a D whistle - half hole the F# for the F, half hole the B for the Bb and cross finger the C# for the C.
I dare ya.
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Re: D minor?
talasiga wrote:You haven't been reading any of my painstaking posts about the modes, have you?KDMARTINKY wrote:Could some of you more experienced plyers than I inform me what key of whistle should I play with guitar D minor?
Thanks in advance
Umm, well, I think we're reading them, sure, but understanding them is something else again.
Eventually, we'll have absorbed a critical mass of clues and everything will suddenly become clear. Meanwhile, what key of whistle does he need? A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J . . . pick one.
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Re: D minor?
Have we met before ?Peggy wrote: .....
Umm, well, I think we're reading them, sure, but understanding them is something else again.
Eventually, we'll have absorbed a critical mass of clues and everything will suddenly become clear. Meanwhile, what key of whistle does he need? A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J . . . pick one.
1. On any simple system flute or whistle you will get an unqualified natural minor progression (Aeolian mode) if you start at this note here
XOO OOO
So if you want D minor you pick the pipe that has a D here (F pipe).
If you want a C minor you pick the pipe that has a C here (Eb pipe)
If you want etc etc etc .... yawn zzzzzzz.
2. Alternately you can take the Dorian mode tonic here
XXX XXO and modify the Dorian progression by cross fingering the sixth like so OXX OOO to get an alternate Aeolian progression.
( D Aeolian from XXX XXO you would want a C pipe.)
3. If you are clever and very skillful like Henke who enjoys half holing, theoretically you could even play D minor on an E flute! This isn't as funny as it seems because classical (and not always folk) bansuri players prefer their tonic at XXX OOO regardless of the mode. For D minor they would use the A fife or the A bass flute and half hole 4 notes for it. But lets not go down there just now.
I don't quite understand why this is difficult for you to grasp.
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I utilized a Chieftain Brass Low F in concert with D minor. I had to move to the second octave on the whistle to really get the tune correct "Tree of Life". It's a tune we are playing for the lental season. Once I moved to the second octave things began to click well.
Keith
Bionn dha insint ar sceal agus leagon deag ar amhran
There are two versions of every story and twelve of every song
Bionn dha insint ar sceal agus leagon deag ar amhran
There are two versions of every story and twelve of every song