This Week - 2nd February
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
1. Hand position
1. Hand position
1. Hand position
2. First 3 notes: G A B
2. First 3 notes: G A B
2. First 3 notes: G A B
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3. Tonguing
3. Tonguing
3. Tonguing
4. Changing notes
4. Changing notes
4. Changing notes
Brecknock & Torriano
Primary Federation
Camden Youth
Recorder Group
Coleridge Primary
Orchestra
Fleet Primary
Brass
Sur le Pont d'Avignon
On
the
bridge
of
Avignon
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Avignon is a town in the south of France. It has a big river and an old bridge.
The bridge doesn't go all the way across because a long time ago most of it
collapsed and fell into the river. It was actually washed away in a flood, but
most people think it broke because too many people were dancing on it!
French children sing it at school and sometimes dance to it.
Here are the words and instructions:
Sur le Pont d'Avignon (Mama Lisa's World).
How to play it on the recorder!
Time signature
Clef
Key signature
Look at the start of the music to check the clef, key signature and time signature:
- It's a treble clef so it should be OK for a descant recorder.
- The key signature has a sharp on the top line. This means all the Fs are F#s.
- The time signature is 'four four', so there are 4 beats in each bar.
There are also some instructions in Italian (musical instructions are often in Italian):
D.C. stands for 'da capo' which means 'go back to the beginning'
'al Fine' means 'until the end'
'Fine' just means 'finish' - the end of the piece.
So...when you get to the end of the 3rd line you go back to the beginning, play the first two lines again and stop at the end of the 2nd one. Writing it like this saves space.
Tutorial
Now go back to Book 2 and try it with the backing track.
Try using 'Notaion C' - without the letters!