Maximizing your practice time (flute/tin whistle)
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- I've done a few videos about various practice exercises (scales, octave jumping, ornaments, etc.) but sometimes the biggest difficulty is just finding the time to practice. Once you've managed that, then it's time to figure out what specifically to work on in limited time. That's what we're getting into here.
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I find a metronome helpful when I play guitar or piano, but distracting when playing the whistle. I think it's because it's hard to hear it over the whistle which is so much closer to my ears.
Great point and one that I neglect to bring up - but I might need to discuss metronomes further!
Great video Sean! Your production values and editing have really come on recently! Good information too as always.
Thanks a bunch! It's been fun messing around with some more creative stuff - just trying to keep myself entertained! hahaha
👍🏼 very nicely edited indeed
If I were to keep a plastic whistle in my car, in south Florida, it would melt or warp - bummer.
Haha true, I was there as a tourist and my sandals melted in the car :)
Jesus Sean, the video production quality on your latest content has been mind blowing. Love it!
Hahahahaha - thanks so much!
'Whistle in the car' has been one of my best tips. Especially if you have kids who need to be collected all the time from hobbies, etc.
I whistle while I wait and then, to their horror, at every traffic light along the way. My whistle passion is not one shared by my family.
Just DO NOT do what I did..dropped my new expensive (for me) whistle just as I was closing the car door and put a 45 degree angle on it 😥
Kids are happy, though 🙄
God, your videos and editing really make the experience that much better. Your content is absolutely fantastic and you seem like such a bleddy lovely chap too! Been watching your stuff for weeks now
I've ALWAYS had a car whistle--as long as I've owned both a car and a whistle, anyway--and it makes red lights change green faster! This effect exemplifies the first law of Magick: if you want rain, plan a picnic! I don't expect to get in a whole tune at a red light, but sometimes red is enough time for a scale or a few rolls.
Loved this video, it's all stuff that we should be doing... I have a pocket wistle (big pockets). but it's always there. And it forces you to play without sheet or tab music. so playing from memory.
but omg.... where is the drone footage... would have made a great outro
and good work on the soon to be 6K subscribers....
Thanks a bunch! The drone shots are for the next one hahaha
@@whistletutor lol, I wont to see you make it Waltz :)
YES! I keep a whistle in the car, too. You don't realize how much time you spend each day sitting at traffic lights or stuck in a traffic jam. Pulling out my whistle has really cut down my road rage! :D
Nice! A car whistle is a must have :)
I played flute in my youth and have recently taken up the tin whistle. I am an intermediate beginner, and I usually pick up musical instruments pretty quick, but I have a tendency to try to run before I walk. My question is: Is it best to practice a tune slowly without the ornamentals until you have it down, and then add them once you get comfortable? Or start right out practicing slowly with the ornamentals? Perhaps you covered this in other videos that I haven't seen yet, and if so I apologize - just point me to the right vid. Thanks!
Great question - I always tell people to get the melody under your fingers first before worrying about either speed or ornamentation. That being said, everyone learns differently so by all means, experiment and see what works for you - but either way I'd say if you're practicing a tune, run it the first time slowly (and with minimal/no ornamentation), and play it the last time the same way. If you want to ramp it up or work in some ornaments, do those in the middle of your practice but make sure you get a couple good clean runs slowly and correctly with just the melody.
I find finding practice time easy but using practice time difficult. I sit down to practice and suddenly notice the bookshelf needs dusted or the floors swept or dishes should get washed or... or … or ...
I know what you mean!
@@whistletutorThis would be a good topic to do an expanded video on. Tips on how to structure time, select tunes, break tunes down in to learnable pieces and so forth. Have you encountered the idea of learning a tune from the right side? Thus, learn bar 4 first. Then learn bar 3. Next play 3 and 4 together. The idea is one is then playing into a strength, e.g. from 3 the new bar, into 4, the known bar. This seems to just make learning music more difficult.
Do any viewers have tips to share?
@@soslothful Haven't heard of that one but I'm all in favor of "do what works for you." Everyone learns differently!
@@whistletutorI have discovered the "Paganini Method" I think it will work.
It's referred to as "Attention Deficit".
I love your sense of humour. Never fails to make me laugh
...it's even more difficult when driving a stick-shift... : (
I LITERALLY DID THE COTAVE EXERCISE AND LEARNED HOW TO DO THE HIGH OCTAVE BY THE "STRAW BLOWING" TECHNIQUE. I TRIED IT BEFORE EXERCISE AND NO LUCK. THANK YOU.
Great video with great tips. Cheers mate.
I play one myself mopane like yours. Brilliant instrument. Some of my pupils invested in the windward also
Yeah they're lovely instruments!
Good advice. Is that your windward flute sean?
It is, it's more photogenic than the McGee (cause the McGee has a rubber band holding the Eb key on :)
Thanks a lot for those useful tips. The link to the fiber whistle does not work.
Good catch, fixed now!
Thank you for a great video . Please can you give me ideas how to practice with out disturbing my neighbours? It's holding me back as I am so conscious of the noise and I know they can hear me . Any ideas please is much appreciated
I had a commute in big traffic, kept the whistle above the visor in my car. Practiced while stopped. Later outside or at the office after hours. Later people say they like it.
There is a way to a get a quiet pitched sound out of the whistle, if you hold it with the mouthpiece resting in the hollow between your lower lip and chin, and direct your breath over the hole in the front of the whistle (sort of like blowing over the hole of a flute). This will make a breathy pitched sound that will allow you to hear the notes and practise in a quiet environment (some whistles work better than others for this - Clarkes and Shaws are good with this technique). Another option is to experiment with tape over that window on the front of the whistle - if you make the window area smaller, the sound will be quieter. This requires a bit of fiddling to find exactly the right spot to place the tape! Good luck!
Do you have any more info on beat emphasis for different tune types? I've noticed I don't quite have the "zing" of good musicians. Double jigs, single jigs, slip jigs, hop jigs, slides, reels, hornpipes, polkas, do they all have a unique articulation?
Great question - yes, I did a whole video on jig rhythms: ruclips.net/video/ru9CH9Weu98/видео.html
Oh, and then another one on the differences between them all: ruclips.net/video/T5XG2ioI508/видео.html
Thanks!