What shall we do with the drunken sailor?

monkey · Post by **monkey** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:02 am

Hi, i was wondering can anyone give me some hints on how to play this tune ?? is it easy to play for a beginner??

i've looked for a whistle tab all over google but found nothing

thx

Theo · Post by **Theo** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:17 am

It's easy enough. Try something along the lines of (on a D whistle):

B BBB BB E G B
A AAA AA D F# A
B BBB BB C# d e d B A F# E E

swizzlestick · Post by **swizzlestick** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:18 am

Try www.tinwhistler.com for this and many, many other tunes.

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:23 am

http://www.musicaviva.com/violin/music. ... l-we-gnxyl

monkey · Post by **monkey** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:25 am

Theo wrote:It's easy enough. Try something along the lines of (on a D whistle):

B BBB BB E G B
A AAA AA D F# A
B BBB BB C# d e d B A F# E E

Mine is a key of C whistle do i still play the same notes ?

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:28 am

monkey wrote:
Theo wrote:It's easy enough. Try something along the lines of (on a D whistle):

B BBB BB E G B
A AAA AA D F# A
B BBB BB C# d e d B A F# E E

Mine is a key of C whistle do i still play the same notes ?

Pretend like you're playing a D whistle. The notes will sound different, but it'll be the right song.

monkey · Post by **monkey** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:30 am

Also just to be awkward I am no good at music reading.

amar · Post by **amar** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:35 am

monkey wrote:Also just to be awkward I am no good at music reading.

Trust your feelings, Luke.

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:48 am

Shave his belly with a rusty razor!

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:17 am

It's in The Clarke Tin Whistle: Deluxe Edition (Book & CD) (Paperback) by Bill Ochs.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/096234 ... oding=UTF8

This is also a pretty good book and CD for learning to play.

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:13 pm

Last year sometime somebody listed a site called "Yet Another Digital Tradition Page" at http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/. This has tons of songs, and MOST have the music - and the dots for the whistle. It's pretty easy to use - click on the first letter of the song you want, then click on the song. If it says "tune" after the title, you will see the sheet music. Then go down below the music where it says "this song available as" and click on "pennywhistle notation." At the top of this notation it will say what key it is in - most come up in D but a few are in C. At the bottom of this music you have a choice of keys, so you can change it to whatever. It's neat.

monkey · Post by **monkey** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:09 pm

Charlene wrote:Last year sometime somebody listed a site called "Yet Another Digital Tradition Page" at http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/. This has tons of songs, and MOST have the music - and the dots for the whistle. It's pretty easy to use - click on the first letter of the song you want, then click on the song. If it says "tune" after the title, you will see the sheet music. Then go down below the music where it says "this song available as" and click on "pennywhistle notation." At the top of this notation it will say what key it is in - most come up in D but a few are in C. At the bottom of this music you have a choice of keys, so you can change it to whatever. It's neat.

Yeah i looked at that site first up, but all they had was the lyrics.thanks anyway:)

Its odd as some tunes i can kind of work out bits of quite well, but others i just don't have a clue???? mind you i've only been playing for one week.

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:31 pm

Yes, I noticed they didn't have the music for Drunken Sailor. Lots of other songs on there though.

OnTheMoor · Post by **OnTheMoor** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:47 pm

monkey wrote:Also just to be awkward I am no good at music reading.

In Theo's post, the B is just your top finger covering the whole. Should be able to figure out the rest from there if you know the tune. It's more satisfying working it out by yourself anyways.