BEFORE YOU START... MR a MIE | Assemble your recorder to look ike the picture. Hand and Finger Position * Loft Hand Place your thumb over the tonehole on the underside of the recorcer. Place your first three fingers over toneholes 1, 2,and3. © Right Hand: Place your thumb on the underside of the recordor. Place the rest of your fingers over toneholes 4, 5, 6, and 7. Rotate the foot joint so that your little finger rests comfortably on the 7th hole. © Curve your fingers naturally and cover the toneholes with your fingertips. GETTING A GOOD TONE... [eens ec] © Cover the thumb tonehale and first tonehole with your left hang, ‘Support the recorder with your right thumd on the underside of the instrument. Place the recorder to your lips and blow gently, whispering the word “to.” © Blow steadily to produce a smooth, even tone. CARING FOR YOUR RECORDER... ea eerin Le | © Dry the inside of your recorder after each use with a lint-free cloth or ewab. © Kegp the mouthpiece clean, \hen you are not using your recorder, always put it backin its caseBEFORE YOU START... MR a MIE | Assemble your recorder to look ike the picture. Hand and Finger Position * Loft Hand Place your thumb over the tonehole on the underside of the recorcer. Place your first three fingers over toneholes 1, 2,and3. © Right Hand: Place your thumb on the underside of the recordor. Place the rest of your fingers over toneholes 4, 5, 6, and 7. Rotate the foot joint so that your little finger rests comfortably on the 7th hole. © Curve your fingers naturally and cover the toneholes with your fingertips. GETTING A GOOD TONE... [eens ec] © Cover the thumb tonehale and first tonehole with your left hang, ‘Support the recorder with your right thumd on the underside of the instrument. Place the recorder to your lips and blow gently, whispering the word “to.” © Blow steadily to produce a smooth, even tone. CARING FOR YOUR RECORDER... ea eerin Le | © Dry the inside of your recorder after each use with a lint-free cloth or ewab. © Kegp the mouthpiece clean, \hen you are not using your recorder, always put it backin its caseNeW NOTE THE BASICS STAFF | PIANO KEYBOARD Ege TT ae eer sesget ne ee gee - ABCDEFGABCGCOEFG MUSICAL ALPHABET MEASURES | TIME SIGNATURE barJines E & = tourbeats in each measure " pisharino A, = uarter rote receives one beat |° QUARTER QUARTER NOTE J = onebeat in time REST } = one beat of silence in 4 time 1. THE FIRST NOTE © = tonehole open © = toneholecovered > Write in the counting and clap the shyth ms before you play, c00 2. THE SECOND NOTE Aas 1 3. DOUBLE FEATURE ee cf + Are you playing with a steady air stream to produce & smoath, even tone?4, MIXING IT UP a % No double bar—keep on going! 5. FORWARD MARCH! + Are you playing with good hand position? 6. GWHIZ G Ney 7. MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Traditional Mer-ri- ly we roll a -long, roll a - long, soll a - long, Mer-ri-ly we roll a - long, O'er the deep blue sea. | 8. NAME GAME @, 9 1.tiethe names [|_| LO) 2.Welte ne names of the lines ia > 84, BALANCE THE SCALES Use sighth notes to balance the scales. i i d. a “2 ~~ x = = = 1 2, 3 4 Be + Be sure that the notes and rests add up to the same cumber of beats on each side of the scale. wars24 NEW DEA 2 4 4 TIME 2 = twobeatsin J d va SIGNATURE ae re Af = quarter note : 7 receives one beat counting |} 1) & 2) & 85. THE LITTLE BELLS OF WESTMINSTER Traditional iL pa | mes || Pick uP Noves| ees eebgd | tuieatitrmient. 86. CARNIVAL OF VENICE Traditional Italian Air 87. WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE 2 Gioacchino Rossini 2sEWiOEA DOTTED 1 ms = 1% beats QUARTER NOTE 2 Reminder: a dot after a note adds half the value of the note. es dood e SLD 2-38 ‘counting 83. TWO WAYS TO PLAY IT » virite in the counting and clap the mhythms before you play. 89. RHYTHM RAMBLE yA 90. PATRIOTIC MELODY ? Duet Henry Carey 4 91. MOLLY MALONE Irish Folk Song28 92. HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? es oe + Blow softly for low C. eo 93. MORNING SONG Edvard Grieg Largo = very slow Andante = moderately slow | Tempos indicate the speed at nano || TEMPOS Moderato = moderate which music is to be performed. Allegro = fast 94. THEME FROMTHENEWWORLD SYMPHONY Antonin Dvofak it 2. 2 Largo 95. HARPSICHORD PLAYER Johann Sebastian Bach Allegro 2 96. BAFFLING BARLINES 4, Draw the barlines so that each measure contains four beats. 3 2. Vorite in the counting and clap the rhythms. 3. Play the malady, Moderato ke SSS ole +Asslur is & curved line that connects two notes of different pitches. Tongue the first note end mave to the second note without tonguing, Keep the air moving. SLUR 97. SMOOTH SOUND Moderato » 3 ’ 98. SLIPPERY SLURS Andante ’ ] TIME SIGNATURE © = Common Time | @ means the same as 4 99. AUSTRIAN MELODY Franz Joseph Haydn 100. SIMPLE GIFTS Moderato Shaker Song , wore8 FERMATA “s (sometimes called a "hold”) Play the note longer than its usual value. 101. HERITAGE SONG Moderato 102. KOOKABURRA 1, Moderato Kook-2 = bur-ra sits by the = old. = gum_—_ tree, 2. ‘Mer-ry,merry king of the — bush—es ’ Henri Hemy 2 , oN Australian Folk Song—3-part Round 2 93. ‘ae he, Laugh, kook - burra, oe Teugh, Kookea- bur-ra, Great your life must be. f= jorte Play with a full volume. LAL || DYNAMICS ‘i P = piano Play with a soft volume. 103. BINGO Moderato American Folk SongOTE 104. E-Z DOESIT E 2 + Be sure that your left thumb only covers half of the tanehote 105. DOITWITHE’S 4 The distance trom a note to the next highost or lowest note with the same namais called an octave. 106, OLD MAC’S FARMYARD Allegro , f Q) NEW DEA - tii When you soe the D.C. al Fine, D.C. AL FINE | fif2e.Cipe/*besinning | coback tothe beginning and iad stop when you come to the Fine. 107. STAR GAZER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozert Moderato i . F Fine Twin-kle, twinkle, lit - tle star, How 1 wonder what you are. 2 ’ & eee C0 we eo + t = P ! D.C. al Fine Up a-bovethe worldso high, Like a diamond in the sky, 108. TEMPO TIME Write in the following tempos from slowest tofastest. Moderato Andante — Allegro. Largo fastest slowest30 NEW OA 109. THIS OLD MAN HAS RHYTHM Moderato > mp = mezzo piana Play with a medium soft volume DYNAMICS mf = mezzo forte Play with a medium full volume. 110. ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT Welsh Folk Song Andante * 2 ss nf Sleep, mychild, and peace attend thee, All throughthe night. ’ > a \_+ Guard- ian an-gels God will send thee, All through the night. ’ ’ a Soft and drowsy hours are creep-ing, Hill and vale in sium-ber sleep-ing, 2 a eae ee Cs Sleep, my loy- ing vig - il keeping, All through the night. 441. THEME FROM THE FOURTH SYMPHONY Andante Pater llyich Tschiakovsky of ap112, ROUND DANCE Allegro Tieiman Susato/arr. Eide—Trio 2 : wf32 This special page is for extra practice and fun on your recorder. COME, FOLLOW Moderato L 2 3 Traditional —3-part Round mf Come, fol low, fol low, fol-low, fol -low, fol-low, fol-low me. 2 ’ <_ Whith-er shall I fel-low, fol- low, follow, Whith-er shall I fol- lew, follow thee? 3. 2 To the green-wood, to. the greenwood, To. the greenwood, greenwood tree. JINGLE BELLS Allegro ’ . JS. Pierpont or ae ae ee Oh what fun it [ie > I. is to ride in a one horse o-pen sleigh, Hey! one horse o-pen sleigh. WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN Traditional Allegro si : f T Oh, when the saints, go march-ing in, Qh, when the saints go march-ing in Oh, Want to” be in that num-ber,__ when the saints go march ~ ing in.