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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This Week - 26th January
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
B flat ( )
B
The note in between A and B; higher than A, but lower than B.
This is a proper flat sign but we normally type it as a small case b: Bb
There are 2 ways of fingering it:
1
3
4
1
3
5
6
- or -
Try both.
You can choose the one that feels most comfortable for you.
When there's one flat in the key signature, on the B line, this turns all the Bs into B flats:
When there isn't a flat in the key signature, we write B flats by putting the flat sign before the note:
A flat or sharp sign before a note lasts for the rest of the bar, so this is a Bb too.
Try these exercises:
Click the triangles to play
F natural
F natural
Some theory
The notes
Play-a-long
High F
- Finger a low F natural
- Take your little finger off
- Bend your thumb
Thumb bent
like high E
Like low F, but
no little finger
Sounds like this:
On the
top line
Looks like this:
Some exercises
1
2
3
F major scale
