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Month of Maying

Book 3 Help

The Month of Maying

A tune with C sharps (here) and C naturals.
Watch the play-along video first:
If you want to start practicing it, open the PDF
Here's a version for 5 recorders: descant, treble, tenor, bass and great bass.
Now is the Month of MayingQuintet version
00:00 / 02:18
and some singing versions:
C sharp
C# rec.png

C sharp (C#)

Fingers 1 and 2, no thumb.

Like an A without the thumb on.

It's in between C and D.

Higher than C, but lower than D.
It's also sometimes called D flat (Db) 

C# tab.png

Looks like this:

C#.png

Sounds like this:

C# ks.png

When there are two sharps in the key signature, all the Fs and Cs are sharps.

Try these exercises:
C#D.png
C#B.png
BC#D.png
A tet.png
And a D major scale
D maj scale.png
Greensleeves

Greensleeves

New note: High F

On the

top line 

1. High F trans.png
- Finger a low F natural
- Take your little finger off
- Bend your thumb

Looks like this:

High F.png

Thumb bent

like high E

Like low F, but

no little finger

Sounds like this:

High F
Some exercises and an F major scale here
EastEnders
Here's EastEnders, the last tune in Book 2 (click here).
Two videos to help you learn it below.
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Do the lesson first, then practice it slowly, line by line (it'll be tricky to start with). Then try it with the 'Play along'.
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This is Charlotte Barbour-Candini playing a treble recorder in the final of
BBC Young Musician 2012. This is one of the hardest recorder pieces ever (even harder than EastEnders!) She was only 6 years older than you then.

Here are some videos to help you learn 'All Blues'

All Blues
Some theory
The notes
Play-along

Listen to Miles Davis again. 

Here's 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' with B flats and F naturals.

New note: B flat
B flat
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