/r/Whistling
For whistlers who wish to make music! Be you a palatal, pucker, throat, finger, hand, or even a tooth whistler, you are welcome here.
Looking to learn a new whistling technique? I hope to grow the community enough to assemble an unparalleled FAQ on all things whistling.
For now, I will keep this subreddit alive as a method to bookmark every interesting thing I find regarding the art and science of whistling. Enojy!
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/r/Whistling
If I whistle starting low and go higher, once I reach the near top of my range my whistle pitch skips up probably 4 notes or so and I can't whistle anything in that range if I try. Any thoughts as to why?
I have no idea how many quality whistlers there are in the world but I'm gonna say that I am better than 95% of the world's population at whistling and I was wondering if there's money to be made off of it?
I got a great C#, but I want to whistle different notes. How?
Trying to learn to whistle with my fingers, but all I'm getting is just a whooshing sound - can anyone suggest common mistakes I can try to remedy? I've watched some videos on YouTube and a couple articles, they all say the same thing, but I can't get it to work
Tyia
I have a background in playing the recorder and while most of the tongue techniques for note punctuation carry over well while whistling, I'm struggling with adapting the t-k tongue clicks for quick, short notes (I'm not sure what it's called in English, but it's for really fast songs, where just using the back of the tongue to cut off air-flow in a k-sound is too slow and blurry, and the player therefore alternates with cutting off the note with the back and tip of the tongue).
The problem while whistling is ofc the 't' part, which changes the shape of the resonance box and therefore the tone.
For those of you who have gotten good at whistling, is this a technique that is just a matter of practice, or one I'm better off replacing with something else?
In my opinion, a great whistler and a great singer are simply two people with similarly great musical ears who are experts of their respective instruments. I played french horn in school and I'm not totally sure, but I think I discovered a penchant for whistling through practicing my embouchure. Anyone else agree?