How to Play Tunes Out of the Irish Flute Range

Video Transcript

" Hi I'm David Cantieni and on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to be showing you the many aspects of playing the Irish wooden flute. If you are interested in more information or finding out other places where you may find me you can go to www.digdigmusic.com or you could email me at digdig@cracker.com. So I like to show you how we approach tunes in the Irish tradition to go out of the flutes range. Many of the tunes that we play might have been written on a fiddle or some other instrument that doesn't have the same range. Now luckily for us the flute play the same fingering for the two main octave that we play in. so if you are playing a fiddle tune that goes down to a low A you just play the A up above. I'm going to demonstrate that with the tune the beginning of a tune called Mullingar Races. I would play it a octave higher so you get what the fiddle would be. But, right there you notice what the octave broke. So the fiddle would start here except a octave lower. Now we do is start in the same place that the fiddle would start and we go up. Another tune that is similar is Oh Thou number 9 which goes like something like this and right in the middle of the phrase you will notice a little section that sounds like it is popped up. So perhaps you could identify it right there. Normally the fiddle would be a octave lower then that. I will show you a jig that goes out of the range. I could do this one it is called Pull The Knife and Stick Again. Now in the fiddle it would sound like this. I will show you a little faster and you could see how your ear almost tricks you into thinking that the note that you are playing is lower. "