KVR Audio

crazed one · Post by **crazed one** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:42 am

nukles wrote: just a thought but i could be the shit, try removing it and give it another go

you can be the shit all you want.

drop it like it's hot!

nukles · Post by **nukles** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:49 am

humming? now that's weird

dreibel · Post by **dreibel** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:57 am

sadly, I can't whistle either - best I can do is to use the "Hi Lyz" patch on my DX7s (for those who don't know what that is, it's the Yamaha factory preset Mark Snow used for the _X-Files_ theme song

)

If I COULD whistle, I'd like to have it be like the woman who whistled the theme music to the old radio show _The Whistler_ (a crime anthology series that is considered one of the classics of old radio)....

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:58 am

I don't whistle (i cant cuz of braces), but i am ALWAYS humming. Sometimes I'll hum a song and really get into it and bob my head and/or stomp my foot without noticing, and people think I'm crazy.

pao · Post by **pao** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:12 am

Chase wrote:I don't whistle (i cant cuz of braces), but i am ALWAYS humming. Sometimes I'll hum a song and really get into it and bob my head and/or stomp my foot without noticing, and people think I'm crazy.

i used to whistle. but i've got braces too and haven't been able to whistle in about 3 years.

i want them off.

and somehow i managed to swallow a bracket the other day.

meister eder · Post by **meister eder** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:43 am

I whistle only when I'm cycling in the wrong direction in a one-way street (which I do about every day).

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:57 am

dreibel wrote:sadly, I can't whistle either - best I can do is to use the "Hi Lyz" patch on my DX7s (for those who don't know what that is, it's the Yamaha factory preset Mark Snow used for the _X-Files_ theme song )

really? good to know..

I was trying to find out what he used on that song awhile back.. the best answer I got at the time was he just recorded himself whistling and then used a load of FX on it..

nukles · Post by **nukles** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:19 am

nukles wrote:
crazed one wrote:I used to be able to whistle but now when I do it, it seems like I'm drunk or my lips are too damn fat or some shit.
just a thought but i could be the shit, try removing it and give it another go

TYPO ! ! ! !

it should have read:

just a thought but IT could be the shit, try removing it and give it another go

Chickenman · Post by **Chickenman** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:29 am

I live and breathe music... but can't whistle hum or sing in tune at all.

Really sux

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:05 am

I whistle all the time. In the middle of the Rideau Centre, our main shopping mall, I'll just be whistling away. I've never gotten any strange looks.

Actually, a co-worker told me that I "whistle beautifully", though I have to admit that my relative pitch isn't that shit-hot, so I'm not sure if she knew what she was talking about.

Same thing, though-- crooner-style melodies. Must be something to be said about that.

On a related point, the older I get the less self-conscious I get. Which means that I also SING in public places. I usually catch myself pretty quickly because it's still embarrassing, but within the next decade or so, I'm sure all those remaining inhibitions will be gone!

Greg

Hypertone · Post by **Hypertone** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:23 am

I often whistle through the gap in my teeth, it keeps me calm.

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:15 am

I occasionally whistle. However, my pitch range isn't great when I whistle so I can never really whistle any tunes that well.

I think the crooner-style stuff is just easier to whistle than other tunes. That's why people do it. It may also indicate that we are all addicted to melody afterall.

For me I'm always thinking about my music - f**k I'm self-absorbed when it comes to that. I'm usually singing my own tunes in my head, under my breath or out loud depending on where I am. I also tend to write parts of my songs in my head as I'm walking around too and then tentatively hum parts etc...

Caleb

Jeremy_NSL · Post by **Jeremy_NSL** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:23 am

actually I write alot of melodies by whistling first. Its very natural and allows me to get the notes in my head transformed into music pretty fast.

I used to whistle more subconciously than I do now. Still sometimes I catch myself in the supermarket whistling some tune, usually from a song I haven't finished yet

Also I've been told I have an 'old man whistle'. Which I guess means a really wicked vibrato. I wish I could duplicate it on guitar or keyboard!

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:35 am

We even have a "familiy whistle theme" (just one bar of some stupid melody). Whenever I get home to my parents, I just have to whistle this one outside and they'll open the door (well, their ears apparently got quite worse during the last few years, so maybe I'll need a mobile PA system soon...).

Hm, I wonder whether it'll be worth doing a whistling sampler patch... I could cover close to 2.5 octaves. Unfortunately on the lower octave you need a lot of breath, which might spoil the recording.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:01 pm

my grampa was a whistler, i've got that same discrete love of suave melodies from him.. ('welsh big band' i guess, "def. NOT jaz..") never been able to whistle normally prolly cos i've got natural vampire teeth, but i do that airy tooth whistle thing all the time, to talk to animals and stuf.

my 'synthedit jazz' is ~ transcription of these 'whistle melodies,' and imo only comes alive off the recording. 'smokin dope' has boatloads of my grampa's licks in it, for all i know, it might be entirely someone else's tune.. fear of plagarism stopped my pa from making music (that's how money works) not i.

don't thnk he'd appreciate the title, but it works for the piece like all hell

are you a Whistler ???