Anyone sick of ITM on the whistle?
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Anyone sick of ITM on the whistle?
Do you need a break from crans, rolls, slip-jigs, hornpipes and those bothersome strathspeys?
Do you feel you are getting stale from trying to learn all the versions of that tune called "Gan Ainm"?
Are you so tired of "the ass in the graveyard" that you are starting to feel like one?
I know I am!
This thread is for non-ITM music that is EZ to pick up on the whistle, either simple, pleasant sounding tunes, tunes that are EZ to pick up on the whistle, or tunes that are EZ to play along with BREAKING you from the sheet-music habit.
Act now!
My 2 cents are:
Moondance by Van Morrison. Playable on a D whistle along with the recording. Hell, most of his tunes on the Moondance CD are easy to play along with.
Old Friends/Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel. low whistle in G.
She's leaving home. Beatles, Low Whistle
Sad Lisa. Cat Stevens. Low Whistle
Who will buy? from the Broadway play/Movie "Oliver!". The original broadway cast album works on an A whistle. I play the thing on a low D.
Vincent (Starry, starry night) by Don something.
San Antonio Rose by Patsy Cline et al. Play along with her on an E. Thanks Cynth for that 2 step!
Old Man River on a low D.
Junk by McCartney. I forget which key.
Stay (just a little bit longer) by Jackson Browne. The long version plays in D and works for learning to improvise.
Hoedown by Copeland. Most recordings are in G for the D whistle. Make reels seem like laments.
Do you feel you are getting stale from trying to learn all the versions of that tune called "Gan Ainm"?
Are you so tired of "the ass in the graveyard" that you are starting to feel like one?
I know I am!
This thread is for non-ITM music that is EZ to pick up on the whistle, either simple, pleasant sounding tunes, tunes that are EZ to pick up on the whistle, or tunes that are EZ to play along with BREAKING you from the sheet-music habit.
Act now!
My 2 cents are:
Moondance by Van Morrison. Playable on a D whistle along with the recording. Hell, most of his tunes on the Moondance CD are easy to play along with.
Old Friends/Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel. low whistle in G.
She's leaving home. Beatles, Low Whistle
Sad Lisa. Cat Stevens. Low Whistle
Who will buy? from the Broadway play/Movie "Oliver!". The original broadway cast album works on an A whistle. I play the thing on a low D.
Vincent (Starry, starry night) by Don something.
San Antonio Rose by Patsy Cline et al. Play along with her on an E. Thanks Cynth for that 2 step!
Old Man River on a low D.
Junk by McCartney. I forget which key.
Stay (just a little bit longer) by Jackson Browne. The long version plays in D and works for learning to improvise.
Hoedown by Copeland. Most recordings are in G for the D whistle. Make reels seem like laments.
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- Tell us something.: I play whistles. I sell whistles. This seems just a BIT excessive to the cause. A sentence or two is WAY less than 100 characters.
I like just popping around on the whistle, playing any nonsensical thing. Every once in a while I will stumble on a short riff that turns into a song I sort of know. Sometimes it is a church song, others Christmas or American folk or nursery songs. You get the drift.
Probably the oddest one I stumbled on to was part of the theme from The Three Stooges!!!!!
Probably the oddest one I stumbled on to was part of the theme from The Three Stooges!!!!!
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I often play the opening to Live and Let Die
Also I play Fantine's song at the end of Les Mis, "Come with me, where chains can never bind you..." I always cry at that part.
Also I play Fantine's song at the end of Les Mis, "Come with me, where chains can never bind you..." I always cry at that part.
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Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues
Bouree by Jethro Tull (I think Mozart did it first)
(Don McLean, by the way, sang Vincent as well as Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie or whatever it's called.)
Either way, I'll never get tired of ITM. Matter of fact, I'm going to log off right now and get some practice in. Sweeny's Buttermilk and Dipping the Sheep (reels) need a lot of work.
Tony
Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues
Bouree by Jethro Tull (I think Mozart did it first)
(Don McLean, by the way, sang Vincent as well as Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie or whatever it's called.)
Either way, I'll never get tired of ITM. Matter of fact, I'm going to log off right now and get some practice in. Sweeny's Buttermilk and Dipping the Sheep (reels) need a lot of work.
Tony
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I think it's fun as well to try to identify non-ITM tunes that might possibly contain whistles and simple-system flutes (as opposed to concert flutes).
Here are some possibilities:
Along Comes Mary (the Association) - unless that's a flautist who knows how to play cuts, I'd wager on a Clarke C.
Georgie Girl (the Seekers) - could be a high-G Generation.
The Crowd (Fairport Convention) - most definitely a whistle. Burke? O'Riordan?
El Condor Pasa (Simon & Garfunkel) - this one is fairly loaded with small woodwinds. Did they make Sweethearts or Water Weasels then?
Fernando (ABBA) - Shaw E, perhaps?
All That She Wants (Ace of Base) - I've seen the video, and it looks like they may be playing the ridiculously easy low-whistle riff on a Chieftain (Phil can probably set me straight on this).
And, of course, we all know about Andrea Corr!
Any other contenders?
Here are some possibilities:
Along Comes Mary (the Association) - unless that's a flautist who knows how to play cuts, I'd wager on a Clarke C.
Georgie Girl (the Seekers) - could be a high-G Generation.
The Crowd (Fairport Convention) - most definitely a whistle. Burke? O'Riordan?
El Condor Pasa (Simon & Garfunkel) - this one is fairly loaded with small woodwinds. Did they make Sweethearts or Water Weasels then?
Fernando (ABBA) - Shaw E, perhaps?
All That She Wants (Ace of Base) - I've seen the video, and it looks like they may be playing the ridiculously easy low-whistle riff on a Chieftain (Phil can probably set me straight on this).
And, of course, we all know about Andrea Corr!
Any other contenders?
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Great list of tunes! I'm not exactly tired of trad, but I'm *not* exactly married to it either.
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ITM
The first year I owned a Whistle I played mostly beatles
and other modern music once you pick through the notes its a breeze don't get me wrong ITRAD is awesome sometimes but a bore to learn I mix in some modern some american trad country scottish trad classical I will never be tired of my whistle music in all forms!!
PS the wife and kids appreciate the other tunes more
and other modern music once you pick through the notes its a breeze don't get me wrong ITRAD is awesome sometimes but a bore to learn I mix in some modern some american trad country scottish trad classical I will never be tired of my whistle music in all forms!!
PS the wife and kids appreciate the other tunes more
a one anda two anda three. I would like you to meet my whistle instructer Charles.
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Great thread! I´ve needed some ideas on some new tunes to try.
Since I´m putting together a book for a different instrument, I´ve been trying out some clasical themes lately on whistle... which I think will also become a little book in the very near future. Here´s a few:
They´re all pretty easy....
The Wedding March (Wagner)
Mozart´s Sonata in A
Brahm´s Lullaby
Dvorak´s Largo from New World Symphony: http://www.geocities.com/sheryl_coleman ... _largo.pdf (if you want a look)
Sheryl
Since I´m putting together a book for a different instrument, I´ve been trying out some clasical themes lately on whistle... which I think will also become a little book in the very near future. Here´s a few:
They´re all pretty easy....
The Wedding March (Wagner)
Mozart´s Sonata in A
Brahm´s Lullaby
Dvorak´s Largo from New World Symphony: http://www.geocities.com/sheryl_coleman ... _largo.pdf (if you want a look)
Sheryl
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No Sweetheart, after more than 30 years of whistling and fluting I am only just now trying at the ITM - a music that has always touched me deeply even though my aesthetic sensibilities are bedded in another culture.StewySmoot wrote:Do you need a break from crans, rolls, slip-jigs, hornpipes and those bothersome strathspeys? .....
You see, my dear child, the world of simple system piping, is not at all dominated by ITM. Most whistlers around the globe know little of ITM. Some of them may astound you.
If you were to broaden your horizons you may find that you will never tire of ITM. Little absences can make the heart grow fonder .....
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