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Gee, thanks thread. You've convinced me to pick up a $10 Feadóg tinwhistle and try to remember everything I barely learned with the last instrument I tried to play, a recorder in the 4th grade. Right now I'm waiting for my roommates to leave the house so I can practice breath-control and tonguing without letting out ear-piercing shrieks between notes! Edit: Does anyone know of any good online resources or games for learning to read musical notes fluently? MrGreenShirt fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Jul 1, 2011 |
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:So far as learning to read music, a huge number of tinwhistle players (and probably a lot of Irish musicians in general) can't read music, so I wouldn't sweat it at all. If you feel like learning it later, that's fine, but don't feel even slightly obliged to learn music. Oh thank god. I've gotten pretty good with following tablature notation in the practice book that came with my feadog whistle, but I've never been able to see standard musical notation as anything more than undecipherable dots on strings. TapTheForwardAssist posted:Before you start on that though, I would spend a day or two just doing breathing and some basic scales. Getting breath pressure right is fundamental (and not terribly hard) and will minimise the sounds-like-rear end shrieking. It took me a week or so, but I've gotten the hang of all the notes now up to A and B, (or XXOOOO and XOOOOO), in the upper D octave which sound like train whistles for some reason. Maybe I'm still not blowing hard enough. So, can anyone recommend any cool Irish jigs for me to learn? I'm currently working on speeding up my fingering of "The Irish Washerwoman" and I'm hoping to challenge myself further.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Swallowtail Jig Oh man, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thanks, I can't wait to get started on these bad boys!
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Jul 8, 2011 16:27
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Looks like a Feadog whistle to me.
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Jul 15, 2011 02:43
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Xiahou Dun posted:That good or bad? It's the whistle I'm using and I have no complaints!
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Jul 15, 2011 04:55
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Speaking of electronic instruments, I have a stack of like 40 Stylophones sitting in my room that I got for dirt-cheap. Give me a day or so to figure out shipping, and I'll be looking to list them on SA Mart for (tentatively) $9 shipped anywhere in the US. Yay! 
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Aug 14, 2011 00:12
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:EDIT: Do we have any goons who play chromatic harmonica? Those are a totally different creature from diatonic harmonica, so worth covering in their own post if we have any players. I don't play, but after glancing at the wikipedia page I'd love to hear more from someone who does!
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Hold it like the guy in the video and sharply tug the string. Does it make a noise? Y: There you go. N: It's a piece of crap and should be placed on your mantelpiece as a curiosity from far-off lands.
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Sep 30, 2011 17:40
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But what about all us lucky stylophone fanatics?
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