It's Recorder Time

It’s easy to know which holes to cover from the way they introduce new notes. I like this book and am glad I bought it. If you can’t understand music staffs, learning to read that will need to occur relatively quickly since the notes in musical notation are not labelled past when the notes are introduced. I like this book and it has quite a few duets for teachers to play with students. I’d say this book is for a soprano recorder.

This book is really useful for beginners to wind instruments. A little bit musical theory knowledge is required. Very well paced

I bought this for my son (7 years old) and I to learn the recorder together. This is a BEGINNER book, and when I say beginner I really mean it. Although I’d never played the recorder before, I used to play trumpet and I blew through this thing faster than you can say “soprano.” That said, for my son, it’s been absolutely great. The pacing is perfect for the typical total beginner, maybe a little fast for my 7 year old son who had zero musical experience. It never gets complicated and I think it only goes up to D and I think only one sharp and one flat if I recall correctly. It does a good job of introducing new concepts and musical markings. You literally don’t need to know ANYTHING about music and you will do fine with this book. The song selection is very good and all the pieces are very short. For an adult they might get boring, but for a child the short song lengths are great because your kid won’t get bored. There are a good number of duets you can play with your child as well which always sparks excitement for my son. Again, this is best for someone with no musical experience or is a child. If you have any experience playing a music instrument, you’ll plow through this book pretty quickly and I’d recommend a book with a faster pace for the first octave and more in-depth songs. But if you have a kid you just bought a recorder for, this book is PERFECT.

Clear simple directions for playing. Shows where the fingers go, shows which holes to cover to make which note. Basic directions for learning music. Each lesson has familiar music. Really nice chart of all of the notes that the recorder is in the back. Only thing I didn't like is that the lessons don't extend to covering most of the upper register notes nor most of the of accidentals. You have the chart to show this to you and you end up either getting another book (don't know which yet), or learning those on your own using other music you have available. (I play other instruments, I do have other music to use in figuring this out, so I'm going that route.)

Ce a quoi je m attendais , rien de trop compliquer et plusieurs pieces ,populaires ou classiques famillieres