It seems that I often hear in many whistle tunes, how they tripple accent a note in a very fast way - kinda disregarding the rythm since it's too fast to matter anyway. It's so fast that it sounds as if a tounge was pronouncing the letters 'rr' in spanish...
I was able to achieve that kind of note-bombading by very fast tripple rolls, which is how I believe they are made. But all I can is really guess than to really know.
doing that thing on D or A is obscure, I just can't or not doing it the right way. D sounds like a crying cow when switching fingers - and A is crippled. Is there some special fingering way i'm missing? Or maybe it's the forbidden tounguing instead?
On another note, fingering and tounging sounds like a way of treating a lady rather than a whistle ;)
Bombarding a note
Bombarding a note
Whistling...
It seems that I often hear in many whistle tunes, how they tripple accent a note in a very fast way - kinda disregarding the rythm since it's too fast to matter anyway. It's so fast that it sounds as if a tounge was pronouncing the letters 'rr' in spanish...
I was able to achieve that kind of note-bombading by very fast tripple rolls, which is how I believe they are made. But all I can is really guess than to really know.
doing that thing on D or A is obscure, I just can't or not doing it the right way. D sounds like a crying cow when switching fingers - and A is crippled. Is there some special fingering way i'm missing? Or maybe it's the forbidden tounguing instead?
On another note, fingering and tounging sounds like a way of treating a lady rather than a whistle ;)
cheers,
Philip
# Posted on March 8th 2006 by Trip-
Re: Bombarding a note
it is indeed achieved by "triple-tonguing", Brian Finnegan of Flook is a master of this technique.
Here's a link explaining the method:
http://www.geocities.com/riverdanceflutist/flutetonguing.html
# Posted on March 8th 2006 by Martin Milner
Re: Bombarding a note
You can listen to Carmel Gunning's tongued triplets here: http://www.cygo.ie/tradmusic/cdsandtapes.htm
# Posted on March 8th 2006 by slainte