welshwhistler wrote:I've been trying to learn the whistle on and off for the past two or three years. I can't be 100% sure but I know I started before meeting my wife. I started by buying one of those Waltons book and whistle sets. It's a C whistle I understand (since that's what's written on it and I trust the manufacturer to be honest with me on this point).
Admittedly, I've not put enough time into my practicing. This is a mixture of not having a lot of time free to practice, especially with the baby and everything but it's mainly down to being stuck in a rut. My major problem is that I struggle with the high notes. I can get F in the higher octive but anything above that is too shreaky. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I bought a new whistle, turns out it's not a manufacturing fault, it's me.
Being unable to progress past this point, I'm stuck repeating Wild Rover over and over again and that upsets the wife and she throws things at me. So I elect not to use as much of my limited free time to practising as I'd like.
Is there anyone who can give me pointers? I've tried varying how hard I blow but it still seems to be those higher notes that are the problems.
Thanks also to the Streams of Whiskey tabber. Is there anyone who has tabbed Turkish Song of the Damned? That said I should probably stop being lazy and do it myself! Haha!
Thanks everyone!
Pointers...umm 0x00000000
Ok, not too funny
You can check Ryan Duns' tutorials on youtube (he plays some tunes, and he has tutorial videos as well), it should guide you through basics. Anyway, for traditional music, I think it can hardly be ever stressed out enough, how listening is important - if you listen to Paddy Moloney, for example, he's a daemon on the pipes, the whistle and the box - that's because he's got the music in his head. And if you know what you want to play, it gets much easier.
