What kind of music do you play?

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:07 pm

I play a lot of Christian music, and Irish slow airs.

Tango Papa · Post by **Tango Papa** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:28 pm

colomon wrote:Newfoundland Traditional Music.

I am going to Nfld this summer. I sure hope that I can hear some good music once we get to St. John's. I'll open another thread on that.

TP

hydromel89 · Post by **hydromel89** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:37 am

Gabriel wrote:I also play with a percussionist/didgeridoo player in a "world music" project...hard to describe how that sounds...

Click here for a recording of it. It's quite overdriven...

But ITM is still my main subject.

It's very nice indeed! I really love it.
Maybe you should be interested in Mugar music.

Easily_Deluded_Fool · Post by **Easily_Deluded_Fool** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:13 pm

[quote="Gabriel"]Click here for a recording of it. It's quite overdriven...
quote]

A couple more tunes like that would go well on a CD.
Very good.

Tango Papa · Post by **Tango Papa** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:19 pm

blackhawk wrote:I play a lot of Christian music, and Irish slow airs.

Hmmm.... could you point me at any beginner level Christian music that works well on a D whistle??

TIA,
TP

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:05 pm

Tango Papa wrote:
blackhawk wrote:I play a lot of Christian music, and Irish slow airs.
Hmmm.... could you point me at any beginner level Christian music that works well on a D whistle??

TIA,
TP

Here's a thread that gives you a lot of titles. If you need more info, feel free to ask.
http://praisewhistlers.org/pwboard/view ... e+friendly

markbell · Post by **markbell** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:55 pm

Tango Papa wrote:
blackhawk wrote:I play a lot of Christian music, and Irish slow airs.
Hmmm.... could you point me at any beginner level Christian music that works well on a D whistle??

TIA,
TP

I've got a few traditional pieces on my website, www.geocities.com/whistleandsqueak . Most contemporary stuff is under copyright, so I can't post it.

Mark

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:06 am

Our session and band plays folk, blues, bluegrass, ITM and some Hayseed Dixie style rock/bg novelty fusion. Oh, and a bit of reggae!

I only whistle on the ITM and folk tunes. The others I mando or bodhran my way through...

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:53 am

My guitarring is a lot better than my whistling. But when I'm picking up tunes I usually practice them on guitar first. The best ones I can do on both guitar and whistle, like The Glenbeigh, and The Home Ruler.
Some stuff is too easy on guitar, like "Over the Ocean". I heard the Kathryn Tickell band do that in harmonics on guitar. It's sounds great and it's not difficult.

Irish Trad, English Trad, Scottish Trad, Classical, Elizabethan, and a bit of Beatles. Anything that comes my way, in my little backwater.

Can you believe I played "Ae fond Kiss" last week to an adult Englishwoman who claimed that she had never heard it before?

Bill Hennessy · Post by **Bill Hennessy** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:26 pm

Tango Papa wrote:
blackhawk wrote:I play a lot of Christian music, and Irish slow airs.
Hmmm.... could you point me at any beginner level Christian music that works well on a D whistle??

TIA,
TP

One of my favorite hymns, possibly my favorite one, is "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" an old Charles Wesley hymn. It sounds beautiful on whistle. I have a recording, but don't know how to upload it for anyone to hear. I, too, love to play hymns on the whistle.

Peace,
Bill

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:18 am

missy wrote:I tend to play anything BUT ITM. I have nothing against playing ITM, I just like to play all types of music (also play mountain dulcimer amoung other things).

One of the songs I love playing whistle on is a very slow "Wayfairing Stranger" (on a D, but in the key of Em).

One I like to do at church is "Sing of the Lord's Goodness" (again in Em - gee, I'm seeing a pattern). I add a lot of runs on that one.

hey missy: we have a lot in common. i totally agree with you. we had a guitar player join our folk group in church who can play in 5/4 so we're back to playing "sing of the Lord's goodness" too. that song rouses people, especially musicians.

besides church music, on the penny whistle, i also play folk, country, old rock, classical, torch songs, ambient background music, tv theme songs. you should see the looks i get when i transition into the brady bunch theme. christmas carols too, they were meant for the whistle.

BEC · Post by **BEC** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:04 pm

For me the whistles have come to supplant my recorders in some cases. My most common "venue" is a small mixed ensemble that leads the music at Mass in our parish about once per weekend.

Besides that I play most anything that appeals to me on them that will fit - including traditional tunes, Christmas songs, and other stuff that we as a family enjoy.

I play whistles because I like the sound(s) not necessarily for ITM - though I'm headed in that direction slowly at this time.

Missy, I hadn't thought of doing "Sing of the Lord's Goodness" on the whistle - I usually play the trumpet solo instrument line up high on a soprano recorder....next time we do that one I'll have to consider a whistle instead.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:48 pm

Another good hymn tune is "Be Thou My Vision/Lord of All Hopefullness" . The tune is Irish so it fits perfect.

KCJiang · Post by **KCJiang** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:47 pm

I play a lot of Chinese melodies on Irish whistle. Blackhawk constantly encourges me to record Chinese melodies on a CD which I appreciate his encourgment very much. However, I feel sorry that my whistle playing skill is not good enough for recording. Hopefully, someday I will have confidence to record Chinese melodies on a CD.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:54 am

KCJiang wrote:I play a lot of Chinese melodies on Irish whistle. Blackhawk constantly encourges me to record Chinese melodies on a CD which I appreciate his encourgment very much. However, I feel sorry that my whistle playing skill is not good enough for recording. Hopefully, someday I will have confidence to record Chinese melodies on a CD.

The four melodies you sent me on cassette tape were beautiful beyond words, KC. You put Green Island Serenade on Clips n Snips. If you upload the other 3 to Clips n Snips, I can burn them onto CD myself, on my home computer!

Your Chinese music is gorgeous on whistle, KC.