I'm starting to feel guilty watching these videos. I'm feeling like I ought to send you money! Honestly, you're generosity with your virtuosity is really remarkable. Thanks so much, Sarah.
@@johnmcdonough5514 Sarah also gives group courses twice a year, one for beginners and the other for advanced players. They are so helpful! She will analyze your playing. You also will be able to develop relationships with other players. That is a very meaningful part of taking her courses.
Hello Sarah! I rarely make any comments here on YT so I'd like to say to you that I love your videos, they're very inspiring! Please keep doing this amazing work for the recorder players community! Best regards from Brazil!
I love your channel! Team Recorder is fantastically terrific! I'm going to experiment with alternate fingerings. Thank you so much for your videos! Although not a professional musician, I play as much as I can and love having you as company!
I'll need to use the softer/piano alternative fingerings in my ensemble after our summer break, and our conductor recommended two videos to get into them - yours and the one by Vera Petri (we're German), and having watched parts of both, I realised how much I am used to your style of videos, your explanations, your joy, that I can't seem to properly follow other people's instructions on recorder things 😅
Brilliant - you're a star! These alternative fingerings will help me out greatly. I shall need to practice diligently to make sure the pitch of the alternative matches the standard because I play in an early music consort (just for fun). Depending on who is available we might have anything from a trio up to on octet and our mentor has a whole room full of Renaissance music for all possible combinations. She often asks us to change the colour of our playing and I've never really understood how to do this but, as always, your video is amazingly clear. Thank you so much.
This is so helpful! Why trying to write down music that I am playing by ear, I came up with alternative fingerings by accident in my efforts to find the right notes. When I couldn’t find those fingerings on my standard chart, I thought I must be off. Now I am reassured that it’s ok.
I'll really like that you explain the word 'color' talking about the notes. In my language (spanish) this word hasn't the same meaning as you are trying to explain
Actually, we also use 'color' in Spanish in the same ways, it refers mostly to the harmonic content of the note. I think a similar word in Spanish would be "timbre"
Extremely useful video. U r absolutely fantastic. I have that book on my bookshelf and not yet stated to study. I'm going to take it out now right the way. Thank u very much.
Very nicely explained. I wonder if anyone has compiled lists of fingerings for ditones, for instance what you almost jump to at 9:40, the Bb with 0123467. If you blow a little harder with this fingering, you pretty reliably get a ditone on almost any recorder.
Hi Sarah. I just discovered your channel quite by accident today - perhaps not haha. I was supposed to. I am so impressed and pleased with all that you have presented here. Truly refreshing, awe inspiring and most informative indeed! Thank you for sharing your tremendous gift, knowledge & insights with us.
could you explain something about the difference between german recorder fingering and baroque recorder fingering? which of both do you prefer and why?
A little late but the baroque is more in tune. The german one was made to be easier and to help the recorders gain popularity. The baroque is harder and has less simple fingerings. So a german recorder is better for a beginner
Great tips! I recently discovered your videos and have been DEVOURING them :-) A little handy book I got given recently which lists some common alternative fingerings and in repertoire is "A Practise book of the Treble Recorder" by A Rowland-Jones printed by OUP in 1962... Two questions..1) if you have a difficult passage with lots of cross fingerings, do you write symbols in your music to use alternative fingerings, or just learn it slowly repeating the same alternatives and hope when you come to that bit at speed that your brain and fingers remember them!.... and 2) Any tips for fast leaps/ octaves/6th etc over the registers, How to use the thumb ? Many thanks ! John
Hey Sarah! I've got a doubt. I am trying to learn several pieces on the soprano that have fast F# to G# (and back) jumps and I find it impossible to change between the postures. Right now the only way I can manage to play is to not cover the half of 6th finger hole when playing G#, but this means playing that note a bit sharp. How do you do this transition? And how could I practise to get it better?
I think I'm starting to get it. I have seen different fingerings on different charts. Maybe there isn't just one "right answer". It's not like piano where C is always the white key to the left of the two black ones. On the low Bb (alto recorder), I really hate adding the right pinky. Maybe I just won't from now on. It sounds almost identical without it.
Can I use the German fingering for the F note when learning music? I am self taught by ear and I used the German F note ( I didn't know it was called that at the time) and am currently learning to read baroque music. I see that the baroque system is different. I don't mind using every other note in baroque, but I am hoping that my continuous use of the German F would be okay when learning new songs. I like soundtracks, Celtic, and medieval music. If you happen to see a similar question posted by me in this section, it is because I typed this question before. However for some weird reason my computer reloaded this video as I was typing and everything I typed vanished. Anyway hope to hear from you Sarah or anyone else who has knowledge on this matter. Thanks for your time!
I want to annotate in my sheet music where I want to use an alternate fingering ... is there any standard musical notation (or one that you use) to indicate that an alternate recorder fingering should be used?
Maybe my question is stupid but.... Alternative fingerings are only in woodwind instruments??? Cause I think that a trumpet is not so hard (3-4 valves)
I play the tenor recorder. Playing the Battle Hymn (Mine eyes have seen the glory...) The piece is played fast and I have difficulty changing from E flat( half of hole 7) to D flat ( all of hole 7 and half of hole 8) Do you have any suggestions regarding alternate fingering?
Hey Sarah! lovely videos you´v got :) I have a question, I just started playing a recorder (like 2 days ago) and im really hook for playing folk-music-type-of-deal!? But, I was so over confident, that I insisted on getting a Sopranino Recorder Baroque, my question(s) is/are: Is is stupid to start on a Sopranino? And what recorder do you suggest to play on, to get a nice "medival folk sound" ? And my final words, I´m completly new to actually getting somewhere in music, and I know I´ll never get as good as you, but my hope keeps growing so mutch when i watch your videos! (A two day old record player looking at a video on Alternative fingerings, thats a new record in stupidity) xD also 4:06 Chewbakka :D Hope you read my message :) and you look and sound amazing! Keep it up! (wow I´m a freak)
If you want to buy a not too expensive instrument I would recommend the mollenhauer"dream recorder" :) it's a soprano and has a super nice sound! but if you like the baroque sopranino, go for it :D
Hi! Thanks for taking the time to write, and great you are enjoying my videos :) The sopranino is great but it is very high, and is quite a 'special' sound ;) As Laura says in the comment below, the mollenhauer dream recorder (it's a soprano, one size bigger) is a great instrument, and is also quite wide so it gives a good medieval sound. I'd go for that one! Keep watching and keep us updated on your progress! I do Q&A videos from time to time as well so do send any questions along :)
Try closing the labium half way with your mouth. Only works on E, D, and C and it should buzz and flatten the sound slightly. If this doesn't work, it did for me with a Yamaha 442 soprano.
hi um... im sylvia and i really need your advice. i just got my bass recorder and i wanted to know if its the sort of instrumant that can be part of a symphony orchestra?
Hi Sylvia, that great you have a bass, congrats! Hmmm, recorders are not in classical/romantic symphony orchestras - but they are featured a lot in baroque orchestra/opera, and also they are being featured more and more in a modern orchestral/large ensemble setting! Either as a concerto or as part of the larger ensemble. So there is quite a lot of opportunity to play!
But you must must must practice before doing them in public.. I was going to use a special quiet fingering for the final cadence of a great piece in a recital....I hesitated before hitting it, then it was a total fail! Totally got it wrong, or just missed the breath pressure. awful! Oh, and the composer was there videotaping it....
I'm starting to feel guilty watching these videos. I'm feeling like I ought to send you money! Honestly, you're generosity with your virtuosity is really remarkable. Thanks so much, Sarah.
I agree!! Its like being given a fabulous Masterclass, so useful for me as an oboist on a small island.
+John Mc Donough Just saw these comments pop up- you can always choose to support the channel by becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/teamrecorder :)
Become a Patreon member. I am and I like the extra benefits and the ability to so Sarah questions when I need to.
@@johnmcdonough5514 Sarah also gives group courses twice a year, one for beginners and the other for advanced players. They are so helpful! She will analyze your playing. You also will be able to develop relationships with other players. That is a very meaningful part of taking her courses.
Hello Sarah! I rarely make any comments here on YT so I'd like to say to you that I love your videos, they're very inspiring! Please keep doing this amazing work for the recorder players community!
Best regards from Brazil!
This made so much sense! Thanks for explaining the rationale behind alternative fingerings!
I love your channel! Team Recorder is fantastically terrific! I'm going to experiment with alternate fingerings. Thank you so much for your videos! Although not a professional musician, I play as much as I can and love having you as company!
I'll need to use the softer/piano alternative fingerings in my ensemble after our summer break, and our conductor recommended two videos to get into them - yours and the one by Vera Petri (we're German), and having watched parts of both, I realised how much I am used to your style of videos, your explanations, your joy, that I can't seem to properly follow other people's instructions on recorder things 😅
Brilliant - you're a star! These alternative fingerings will help me out greatly. I shall need to practice diligently to make sure the pitch of the alternative matches the standard because I play in an early music consort (just for fun). Depending on who is available we might have anything from a trio up to on octet and our mentor has a whole room full of Renaissance music for all possible combinations. She often asks us to change the colour of our playing and I've never really understood how to do this but, as always, your video is amazingly clear. Thank you so much.
This is so helpful! Why trying to write down music that I am playing by ear, I came up with alternative fingerings by accident in my efforts to find the right notes. When I couldn’t find those fingerings on my standard chart, I thought I must be off. Now I am reassured that it’s ok.
Sarah, really appreciate your videos on recorder. They are a gold mine of instruction, as well as being high in humor and genuine warmth.
+Jack August Thank you Jack!
I'll really like that you explain the word 'color' talking about the notes. In my language (spanish) this word hasn't the same meaning as you are trying to explain
Actually, we also use 'color' in Spanish in the same ways, it refers mostly to the harmonic content of the note. I think a similar word in Spanish would be "timbre"
exactly!
Yea!!! My treble recorder is of the same maker of yours!! I don't know why I'm so excited about this!!LOL
Really - you have a Yoav Ran too? Yay!
Extremely useful video. U r absolutely fantastic. I have that book on my bookshelf and not yet stated to study. I'm going to take it out now right the way. Thank u very much.
Very nicely explained. I wonder if anyone has compiled lists of fingerings for ditones, for instance what you almost jump to at 9:40, the Bb with 0123467. If you blow a little harder with this fingering, you pretty reliably get a ditone on almost any recorder.
Yes I did a whole video on multiphonics! There is a comprehensive list of fingerings in Michael Vetter’s ‘Il Flauto Dolce ed Acerbo’
@@Team_Recorder Thanks, I'll check it out.
Hi Sarah. I just discovered your channel quite by accident today - perhaps not haha. I was supposed to. I am so impressed and pleased with all that you have presented here. Truly refreshing, awe inspiring and most informative indeed! Thank you for sharing your tremendous gift, knowledge & insights with us.
Thank you so much Sarah 😍, you have opened my eyes for alternative fingerings on alto recorder I usually play 😁
I've just found your channel!!
You are amazing person with amazing accent!!
So thanks for helping me to learn new alternative fingerings ;)
Thanks much! An useful video for an Irish Flute or Whistle player. 😎🌞✌️🎻
Please make a video about baroque ornamentation :)))Btw. nice video!
could you explain something about the difference between german recorder fingering and baroque recorder fingering? which of both do you prefer and why?
A little late but the baroque is more in tune. The german one was made to be easier and to help the recorders gain popularity. The baroque is harder and has less simple fingerings. So a german recorder is better for a beginner
tanks for the ideias!
Very nice content Sarah! Congrats!!!
Great tips! I recently discovered your videos and have been DEVOURING them :-) A little handy book I got given recently which lists some common alternative fingerings and in repertoire is "A Practise book of the Treble Recorder" by A Rowland-Jones printed by OUP in 1962... Two questions..1) if you have a difficult passage with lots of cross fingerings, do you write symbols in your music to use alternative fingerings, or just learn it slowly repeating the same alternatives and hope when you come to that bit at speed that your brain and fingers remember them!.... and 2) Any tips for fast leaps/ octaves/6th etc over the registers, How to use the thumb ? Many thanks ! John
Hey Sarah! I've got a doubt. I am trying to learn several pieces on the soprano that have fast F# to G# (and back) jumps and I find it impossible to change between the postures. Right now the only way I can manage to play is to not cover the half of 6th finger hole when playing G#, but this means playing that note a bit sharp. How do you do this transition? And how could I practise to get it better?
I think I'm starting to get it. I have seen different fingerings on different charts. Maybe there isn't just one "right answer". It's not like piano where C is always the white key to the left of the two black ones.
On the low Bb (alto recorder), I really hate adding the right pinky. Maybe I just won't from now on. It sounds almost identical without it.
Can I use the German fingering for the F note when learning music? I am self taught by ear and I used the German F note ( I didn't know it was called that at the time) and am currently learning to read baroque music. I see that the baroque system is different. I don't mind using every other note in baroque, but I am hoping that my continuous use of the German F would be okay when learning new songs. I like soundtracks, Celtic, and medieval music.
If you happen to see a similar question posted by me in this section, it is because I typed this question before. However for some weird reason my computer reloaded this video as I was typing and everything I typed vanished. Anyway hope to hear from you Sarah or anyone else who has knowledge on this matter.
Thanks for your time!
When you play an f with the german fingeringon a recorder with baroque fingering, the tone gets a bit too high
I want to annotate in my sheet music where I want to use an alternate fingering ... is there any standard musical notation (or one that you use) to indicate that an alternate recorder fingering should be used?
Maybe my question is stupid but.... Alternative fingerings are only in woodwind instruments??? Cause I think that a trumpet is not so hard (3-4 valves)
Hi Sarah, is there an alternative fingering for E (0- 23 567- 8) on the third octave on soprano, if it's possible, not using the bell (8)?
Emmanuel Vergnaud on my soprano I manage to get this E using (ø -2- - - - -)
I play the tenor recorder. Playing the Battle Hymn (Mine eyes have seen the glory...) The piece is played fast and I have difficulty changing from E flat( half of hole 7) to D flat ( all of hole 7 and half of hole 8) Do you have any suggestions regarding alternate fingering?
Hey Sarah! lovely videos you´v got :)
I have a question, I just started playing a recorder (like 2 days ago) and im really hook for playing folk-music-type-of-deal!?
But, I was so over confident, that I insisted on getting a Sopranino Recorder Baroque, my question(s) is/are:
Is is stupid to start on a Sopranino? And what recorder do you suggest to play on, to get a nice "medival folk sound" ?
And my final words, I´m completly new to actually getting somewhere in music, and I know I´ll never get as good as you, but my hope keeps growing so mutch when i watch your videos!
(A two day old record player looking at a video on Alternative fingerings, thats a new record in stupidity) xD
also
4:06 Chewbakka :D
Hope you read my message :) and you look and sound amazing! Keep it up! (wow I´m a freak)
If you want to buy a not too expensive instrument I would recommend the mollenhauer"dream recorder" :) it's a soprano and has a super nice sound! but if you like the baroque sopranino, go for it :D
Hi! Thanks for taking the time to write, and great you are enjoying my videos :) The sopranino is great but it is very high, and is quite a 'special' sound ;) As Laura says in the comment below, the mollenhauer dream recorder (it's a soprano, one size bigger) is a great instrument, and is also quite wide so it gives a good medieval sound. I'd go for that one! Keep watching and keep us updated on your progress! I do Q&A videos from time to time as well so do send any questions along :)
Try closing the labium half way with your mouth. Only works on E, D, and C and it should buzz and flatten the sound slightly. If this doesn't work, it did for me with a Yamaha 442 soprano.
Please try a soprano
hi um... im sylvia and i really need your advice. i just got my bass recorder and i wanted to know if its the sort of instrumant that can be part of a symphony orchestra?
Hi Sylvia, that great you have a bass, congrats! Hmmm, recorders are not in classical/romantic symphony orchestras - but they are featured a lot in baroque orchestra/opera, and also they are being featured more and more in a modern orchestral/large ensemble setting! Either as a concerto or as part of the larger ensemble. So there is quite a lot of opportunity to play!
thank you so much for your help!
I think the C'# is missing from the list.
But you must must must practice before doing them in public.. I was going to use a special quiet fingering for the final cadence of a great piece in a recital....I hesitated before hitting it, then it was a total fail! Totally got it wrong, or just missed the breath pressure. awful! Oh, and the composer was there videotaping it....
Σ三❚三三三◕◕◕三◕◕◕三◕三∃.•*¨*•♪♫
Here's a 'corder I once designed. A present for you!
😋🍓♬
Wow!!!!!! That's amazing! Thank you :)
How do you practice the hole at the end of a tenor recorder please ^^ ?
mi na flecie mogła by zagrać hehe :)
Alternative fingerings for the soprano? ;)
Is there any way to play an F# without using the Bell?
hmmm some recorder have bell keys, and you can approximate an F# if you play a high G and cover half of holes 2 and 5 each. It’s more unstable though!
Would people notice I do a diffucult trill on a b by covering the first four holes?
If you start the trill with the ‘proper’ fingerings then move from there, probably not! 😉
Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder Haha, thanks for your reply! I might however practice until I'm a bit better. Cheating feels not as rewarding.
Mine is: Left hand: 4 fingers, Right hand: 3 fingers, 8th hole in the end: my knee
I'm really starting to think the recorder is actually a terrible children's beginner instrument.
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It can be really easy, and it can be really hard. It's perfect to adapt to different children ability.