Oh, my. Here's one I like a lot:Whistling Archer wrote:but I dont believe I have ever heard Down by... sung ,, youtube here I come.
Low G or high?Whistling Archer wrote: Me & my G whistle are becoming friends on these slower tunes.
Low GDain wrote:Low G or high?Whistling Archer wrote: Me & my G whistle are becoming friends on these slower tunes.
Bill Reeder wrote:John Ficken wrote:Well, you could also pick up any piping tune and play it as written. That's how I'm learning the whistle, as I know scads of piping tunes. On a "D" whistle you'll never play a piping tune lower than "G" or higher than "a". Opens up a lot of possibilities. Some of my favorite slow airs are "Suo Gan", "The Dark Isle", and "Highland Cathedral". Piping music is readily available on the 'net, as quite a bit of it is out of copyright. I mention this because it it opens up a ton possibilities for tune choices.
2 pence from the new guy....
Let's see here, do you mean Great Highland pipes when you say "piping tunes"?
"Piping tunes" doesn't conjure up the same image for some of us.
2 cents from the old guy......
). My mistake, and certainly not intended to slight any of our cousins! 
What about Mull of Kintyre and Amazing Grace?Whistling Archer wrote:Any suggestions on a few tunes to learn , that are similiar in speed and difficulty to Skye Boat Song??
No prob.Ceili_whistle_man wrote:Thanks fearfaoin,
I shall try what you suggest next time I link to something,
Cheers.
No slight perceived by me, John. It's just that I almost hurt myself climbing out of my comfortable mental rut. I pulled out my long neglected border pipes as penance today... that nine notes business is a bit of a tease isn't it.John Ficken wrote:Bill Reeder wrote:John Ficken wrote:Well, you could also pick up any piping tune and play it as written. That's how I'm learning the whistle, as I know scads of piping tunes. On a "D" whistle you'll never play a piping tune lower than "G" or higher than "a". Opens up a lot of possibilities. Some of my favorite slow airs are "Suo Gan", "The Dark Isle", and "Highland Cathedral". Piping music is readily available on the 'net, as quite a bit of it is out of copyright. I mention this because it it opens up a ton possibilities for tune choices.
2 pence from the new guy....
Let's see here, do you mean Great Highland pipes when you say "piping tunes"?
"Piping tunes" doesn't conjure up the same image for some of us.
2 cents from the old guy......
Ahh, Bill, I meant the Great Highland Bagpipes (only nine notes--how hard can it be, right?
Nowadays it's so common for Highland pipers to play F naturals and C naturals (they're written into many modern GHB compositions and arrangements) and sometimes high G sharps and even Low F sharps that the old "nine note" thing doesn't apply like it used to.John Ficken wrote:
I meant the Great Highland Bagpipes ...only nine notes--how hard can it be, right?
suggest replace "correlate with any" with "specify a".s1m0n wrote: ......
An air, being the melody of a song, doesn't signify a particular dance step the way a term like 'waltz' does, so it doesn't automatically correlate with any particular time signature.
Now, stop that!!pancelticpiper wrote:Nowadays it's so common for Highland pipers to play F naturals and C naturals (they're written into many modern GHB compositions and arrangements) and sometimes high G sharps and even Low F sharps that the old "nine note" thing doesn't apply like it used to.John Ficken wrote:
I meant the Great Highland Bagpipes ...only nine notes--how hard can it be, right?
And of course the so-called "border" chanters are chromatic all the way up- at least mine is.
