I first encountered it more than twenty years ago in Walter van Hauwe’s 3-volume method The Modern Recorder Player, which is an excellent method for the adult who is already a musician to learn to play the recorder. I didn’t invent this system, I just made the chart above. The “cracked” or “pinched” thumb hole and “half holes” on 6 and 7 are indicated by a slash through the number – they can be verbally described as “pinched thumb” and “half 6”, etc. Numbers articulated for a fingering indicate that hole is to be covered.
#Simple recorder fingering chart free#
Often a tightly folded piece of paper with such a chart arrives with each plastic recorder, tucked inside the recorder’s case along with the instrument and covered in Japanese characters.Ĭlick to enlarge – free to print, copy, and distributeĠ = the “thumb” hole, played with the thumb of the left handġ, 2, 3 = the holes covered by the three fingers of the left hand descending down the instrument beginning with the index fingerĤ, 5, 6, 7 = the holes covered by the four fingers of the right hand descending down the instrument beginning with the index finger The usual system that school and introductory recorder methods provide for fingering instruction is some form of chart that shows pictures of recorders or a more abstract stack of circles representing the fingering holes on the instrument, usually showing the holes that should be covered for each note filled in and the ones left uncovered empty. However, for several reasons including accounting for differences in learning styles, being able to provide students with a reference to consult for fingerings when you are not there, and (important) being able to verbally describe fingerings, it is necessary to have a system. My impression is that most elementary school music teachers haven’t actually studied recorder for its own sake (e.g taken lessons, played in a consort or performed solo recitals on recorder, etc.). I thought about the topic of this post recently when I remembered that I have never encountered middle or high school students that had been taught recorder in elementary school (by someone other than me) who were familiar with this system.Īnyone who has stood before a group of children, each of whom holds a recorder in their hands, and tried to get them to all play the same note knows that the primary means for making sure everyone is playing the same fingering is to show them yourself on the instrument in your hands. I hope that this brief post will be helpful to those teaching recorder in elementary school who have little or no background with the instrument as players themselves. Playing recorder with Blue Rock School students, 1991 The South African Society of Music Teachers.The Gordon Institute for Music Learning.The Association for Popular Music Education (US).The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.Scottish Association for Music Education.Organization of American Kodály Educators.
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