Free Waldorf Recorder/Flute Lesson | Simply Waldorf
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Try out this free Waldorf recorder/flute lesson and see how simple and easy playing the flute can be for you and your homeschool child. This lesson is for parents and teachers in any educational setting who want to bring music to their own program.
Be sure to see more notes from course creator at the end of this description.
What you will learn:
--How to use the first three left hand fingers to play simple songs
--Then, how to use the four right hand fingers to play simple songs
--Ultimately, how to use the fingers of both hands to play more elaborate and interesting songs.
--You will develop greater sensitivity to tones.
--You will become more adept at simple rhythms so that you can "keep time" more skillfully in music
--Using the song to help develop your "musical ear" so that music is natural and fun.
--The benefits of regular daily practice vs. occasional practice
This lesson takes the student, step by step, through the process of developing skills, one hand at a time, gradually unifying the process so that both hands can play songs on the flute. We learn the simple techniques and songs in the lesson by heart and ear. We do not complicate this process with written music. The important first steps are to develop comfort and skills with the instrument itself. We do this by learning simple songs that are easily mastered with daily practice.
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Recorder Flute - Level 1
This is a beginning level recorder flute course. The course is composed of 36 lessons. Each lesson takes you from start to finish with a single, new simple song. The lessons start very simply, developing the left hand fingers for a few lessons, then the right hand fingers for a few lessons, and finally leading into simple songs that use the fingers of both hands. Along the way, with daily practice and basic mastery of each lesson, the student develops the skills as well as the confidence to proceed.
This course is for soprano recorders in the key of C, Baroque fingering.
All 36 songs in this "Recorder Flute - Level 1" course are exactly the same as the songs in the "Singing Easy Songs" course. In this course, in addition to the songs being sung, there are the instructions for recorder flute playing. In the singing course, the recorder flute instructions have been edited out, while the singing portions of each lesson remain exactly the same. This is why the singing course is significantly cheaper to purchase.
All songs in this course are composed by Rev Bowen.
Always a pleasure. V peaceful.
Muchas gracias! Me.encanta la calma y la forma de explicar todo.
What could be the first procedure to hold the recorder for beginners and any breathing exercise to follow.can u guide how to use the notes 🎶
Does this come with a song book for adults to refer to ?
This course does not come with a songbook, but the lyrics for each song are included with each lesson. In Waldorf Education, we want the student in the elementary grades to start with will forces, movement, and/or experiences. For music, that means creating a relationship with the instrument and with sound by DOING. It is also important that we model whatever it is that we hope for them to take up and do. Thus, we adults need to create our own relationship to the instrument and to the musical experience.
This can be difficult for some, of course, especially those who are already familiar with reading musical notation. However, the benefit is so great in beginning this way. The child's observational skills are improved by watching how the adult's fingers move. The child's "musical ear" is developed by focusing on how the song actually sounds and not blending that with the process of "reading" the musical notations too soon.
As with so many other disciplines in Waldorf Education, both academic and artistic, we move from whole to parts, then back to whole, in these lessons. So we hear the whole song first. Notice I also sing the song, so that the other person is also beginning to learn it. For some, not all, the lyrics sung to the melody actually help them to learn a song more quickly. For others, the melody alone is what they grasp. Then we begin to break it into parts. Then we highlight certain things within those parts. Eventually, with practice, we are able to put those parts back into the recognizable whole. When a person goes through this process focusing only on the instrument and the sounds, it attunes them to music in a way that reading music rarely allows. Reading music is great, once the human being has established a good relationship with the instrument and with music itself.
Is the course suitable for the pentatonic flute? Or do we have to have a recorder?
This course is specific to the recorder flute, because different flutes have different fingering patterns. For this course, one needs to be playing a soprano recorder with a Baroque fingering, key of C.
The good news is that you can get a high quality recorder flute for less than $30. I recommend the Yamaha YRS-402B. In my opinion, it has the best tone among the less expensive recorder flutes.
It is possible to spend much, much more than this for a recorder flute, and perhaps those recorder flutes have even better tones. However, I have never played one of those very expensive recorder flutes. I have been very happy with the Yamaha YRS-402B (soprano, baroque fingering, key of C).
Is this suitable for german fingering or only the baroque. Thank you.
This course is designed for using a Soprano Recorder Flute, Key of C, Baroque fingering.