OH DANNY BOY - NATIVE AMERICN FLUTE

The melody Londonderry Air, more commonly known as Oh Danny Boy played on a Native American Style Flute in the key of A. Lots of overblown notes, not that easy to squeak those higher notes out of very many NA flutes. I just love the melody and the emotion behind it. And, being so close to St. Patricks day I figured why not?
Thank you for watching and your comments are appreciated.

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Music

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• native
• american
• flute
• oh
• danny
• boy
• indian
• wood
• woodwind
• londonderry
• air
• irish
• celtic
• music
• randy
• granger
• st.
• patricks
• new
• mexico
• southwest

[longlegslenora]

I purchased your version of 'Oh Danny Boy' on itunes some time ago (while living in my home country of America). Now I live in Sarajevo, Bosnia. I often like to walk about downtown and through the mountains. During these walks I pass many cemeteries of various religions that are breathtakingly beautiful. Anyway, whenever i pass one, I flip instinctively to your rendition of this song on my ipod as some sort of respectful tribute-as silly as that that might be.

[LoneGranger]

@longlegslenora Thank you for that. So fitting on this Day of the Dead Nov. 1. May you walk in beauty. RG

[walkingbear56]

I'm trying this in Bb and having real problems with the high bit..how do you over blow that and get it so sweet?

Top man Randy

[LoneGranger]

Thanks. I try to find the balance between over blowing and just barely blowing. Practice finding amount of breath you need to overblow the higher notes then back off 10% at a time until you find the minimun blowing power you need. Also listen to the way I'm easing into the notes. Higher pitches are louder by nature...

you can do it!

RG

[ryufish99]

how many holes does that flute have?

[LoneGranger]

This is a Native American flute that has 6 holes based on a pentatonic scale. They either have 5, 6 or 7 holes usually.

-RG

[txdurk]

@longlegslenora: That's not silly, it's respect. Beannacht.

[PipeIncognito]

The pipes are fucking calling!!!!

[AnnaWood007]

excellent, I love this song

[1354pop]

where can i buy a flute like this?

[walkingbear56]

THanks.... practice practice....also just holding half a hole down is a real hard one....I think the "sliding" into a note is going to help too!

Nik