Waaaaah I loved this Katie! Thank you so much for making a video with my lessons! I must admit I was mildly terrified watching it back and seeing how I teach 😅 But you did a great job! I have that Yamaha recorder too but in blue, they are pretty acceptable for plastic instruments.... let's play some renaissance music together!
It's really not though. Learning recorder - yes, absolutely support that. A professional flautist knowingly acting like they have no idea what they're doing with a similar instrument for the sake of a video - no. It's the worst kind of 'Oh, look, I'm just like you' - proficient woodwind instrumentalists can easily learn the basics of the recorder without making a song and dance about it as if they haven't got a clue. If she can 'practice a concerto in a week', she can do this...
I have loved Sarah for some time now as well. She is great. Loved it when she roasted Brett and Eddy from Twosetviolin after they made fun of the recorder. She was really funny.
recorder is really great, speaking as a teen flute student! i had to learn how to seriously play it (in three weeks....) for the first time a few years ago in a student pit orchestra (alto recorder for les mis) and i was lucky to have a friend who had a decent quality one who let me borrow it. i was dreading it, as my only experience was playing it pretty horrifically as a nine year old, but after the show i was so sad to have to give the recorder back that i now have a tenor thru sopranino of my own. the repertoire is so diverse and fun to play, way more than just the toy i thought it was.
once you are musical....there is nothing you can't do!!!! i'd love to see you play a sax or clarinet (sax is closer to fingerings of the flute) i bet you'd do awesome!!!
@@michaelshelley1289 I would argue clarinet fingerings are easier because they are sequential between registers. Sax and flute you have to jump around a little to skip the overlapping notes between the registers, not to mention that the 3rd and 4th flute register makes zero sense at all. The 1st and 2nd are clarinet 2nd register clones.
This time last year I was a beginner flute player consuming all of @katieflute ‘s content, and here a year later I just bought my first set of sop/alto/tenor recorders and have watched all of Sarah’s videos over the past few weeks. You two are amazing - definitely agree with all the requests for a collaboration!
I have never played the recorder. Where I went to public school we actually started band in the fourth grade, so my very first real instrument was the flute. My first exposure to the recorder was after we moved and my younger sister learned to play it. I have to admit that back then, I thought they were little more than toys. Team Recorders videos changed my mind on that and I think you've done her videos a lot of justice. 🙂 Well done.
As a baroque player to me the recorder feels very easy on the fingering and soundproduction but very fragile and narrow on the dynamics range, very (too!) touchy on the response.
You should tell her! You used your weight as a professional musician, to show that even professionals have to learn and make mistakes! Given that especially young people often have problems with insecurity, this is a wonderful lesson that goes far beyond music! That's teaching with heart in mind and mind in heart, the best couter-point any human being can sing! ❤💐🤗
Great video! This is how I started about a year ago. I took me 3-4 days to master each song but then I'd never picked up any musical instrument before then. A year into my journey I've switched to tenor recorder ( soprano was too small for my big mechanics hands). I started with the basics, Greensleeves, Scarborough Fair etc. now I'm playing a lot of Beatles and Elvis (so much fun) also trying Vivaldi's Concerto for lute in D major and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
Sarah studied the flute before, she told the story in a video called "Team flute?". I'd like to see a video conference exchanging lessons, that would be awesome!
I am from Slovakia and in our state, firstly we must know how to play the recorder and then we could start to play the flute. But if our teacher say, we aren't ready to play the flute, we keep playing the recorder until he or she says, we are ready. This also applies to most other wind instrument (recorder is something like basis for wind instrument). It usually happens, that the teacher, who teached us how to play the recorder, is teaching us now, when we leveled up to any other wind isntrument. (Sorry for my English. As I said, I am not nature english speaker. We are learning English, but still I am not good in it😄)
Aah, that concerns only musical schools. Primary schools do not have compulsory recordernlessons, father AS extracurriculum activity. On the other hand, the Ise od recorder recorder as prerequisite instrument does not help recorder to view it as something other than beginners instrument. It IS changing slowly though ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0_DZlBuvSC0.html
@@alicakopcova5056 yes, it is true, that if we don't join to musical lesson, we wouldn't have any music education (music lessons in Scholl, but web don't play any music instrument here). But I think it isn't bad. And I saw Ajna in TV. I think she was brilliant, but it isn't changing, that if I want to play flute, I must learn how to play recorder firstly. And I don't say, that recorder is something less than other instrumen, I just say, that in Slovakia it is basis for wind instrument. And it isn't bad. On the contrary I think, that is important, that we are learning recorder first. It is important for lungs and many other things. And at the and... I play on the recorder in one folklore ensemble and in one band, so if I say the recorder is bad I would say something I don't agree with.
As a recorder player that follows Sarah, you did well! I've been learning flute since last July (2020), some fingerings are the same - until you get to the octave part. Darn flute has no thumb hole. Two biggest hurdles for me to learn flute - embouchure and going to C from anything higher. That's due to the difference between the two instruments. Great job! Sarah would be pleased, I think!
La flauta dulce (flauta de pico o recorder) es genial. Muchos la miran a huevo por ser un instrumento chillón (en realidad, cualquier instrumento mal tocado sonará a rayos) y todos la catalogan como el instrumento del colegio pero pocos saben que es un instrumento que puede ser tan importante como la flauta traversa, un piano o un violín y que como tal, se estudia en los conservatorios. La única desventaja de este instrumento es su limitado registro (y a menudo los compositores clásicos escriben para prácticamente todo el registro de un instrumento sin escatimar en notas sobreagudas cuyas digitaciones son bastante raras y poco naturales), pero tiene un timbre muy particular. De hecho, en el barroco se utilizó mucho a la flauta dulce hasta que fue siendo remplazada de a poco por la flauta traversa, al poseer un registro mucho más amplio que la flauta dulce. Incluso el desarrollo debla flauta dulce ha avanzado bastante, siendo hoy posible encontrar flautas dulce con llaves, lo que aumenta considerablemente el registro además de ofrecer otras posibilidades interpretativas.
When it came time for the oboe and me to part ways, I took another recent ex-oboist's advice and bought a recorder. It was a nice substitute, albeit somewhat limited and limiting. An Early Music recorder instructor friend of mine, who also hails from Jolly Olde England btw, tried unsuccessfully to recruit me to perform on the recorder in front of an audience, but I couldn't get past how much it sounds like a slide-whistle. But I must say, I respect my friend's and Sarah Jeffrey's accomplishments on the recorder, and the work they've both done to demystify it.
My school never made us play recorder which is sad bcs only the people who went for lessons knew how to actually play instruments. We only had 'singing' lessons where we sang traditional English songs, even though I don't even live in Europe and no-one songs them here, and we made waterfall sounds with triangles and sandy sounds with maracas etc. Of course, the biased bilingual school it was, ¾ the other native language (they always got advantaged because the principal spoke that language), got to learn songs actually sung in this country. 6 years later or so the teacher retired and now this lovely lady came to teach them and they actually learn about music and are doing heads shoulders knees and toes to in the Hall of the mountain king. So unfair.
Katie, what an amazing video, full of fun, respect and humility. I loved watching your facial expressions, especially when you discovered the "middle d" (2nd finger). Priceless. It was also very fun to see how you held the recorder. Your hands are a flutist's hands, and how else would you hold the instrument?! I rediscovered recorder in 8th grade at band camp, and have had a record with me for decades. Love it! Played harp in symphony for years until joints started locking. Harp stopped, picked back up the recorder. Vivaldi, Telemann, Boismortier, and so many others!! They are waiting for you. The challenge for you is to get an alto recorder. Learn the F side fingerings and check out the repertoire. There you will see the recorder shine. The soprano is "immediately transferable" for a flutist, but the alto with the F fingerings is your predecessor and IMO, THE solo recorder. Do the Brandenburgs on recorder (alto probably), they are amazing. Thank you for a fun video, and I am with all the others hoping you and Sarah collaborate.
Very genuine lesson: playing while the teacher is talking! (obviously the lesson is not "live" but in my experience kids couldn't help playing and interrupting our music teacher).
You noticed that she avoids the F in the playalong? That's because she uses an instrument with Baroque fingering. School recorders are normally German fingering. To begin with F/F# are different. When you want to play at higher levels it's better to change fingering (and instrument of course).
My school recorder was German fingering and changing later caused me issues. Baroque fingering is not that difficult, but you do have to get used to it. A person could do a lot better than spending $8 usd with spending around a $20 to $40 USD plastic recorder or wood plastic hybred - Several good ones exist and Sarah has at least two videos. For early music you will sooner or later want to consider an Alto. Difficult to say when to start with the alto. When I started playing I started again with the Soprano and now am moving towards the Alto. oooh .. and an a=415 hz baroque pitch is almost affordable at circa $145 USD with a Zen-on Bresson Baroque pitch instruments always have a cost bump. :)
@@anneharrison1849 Oops I missed that one. Children still learn German fingering over here in the Netherlands. Though I have the impression that it was more popular when I was young.
@@joopspeth6483 that’s interesting that kids learn German fingering, it’s surprising when the recorder is such a big instrument in the Netherlands. In the U.K. we all learn baroque as the basic fingering.
@@joopspeth6483 in Australia, they teach baroque fingering like in UK, and in Russia, German fingering. In Australia, soprano recorder is used in primary school classrooms to teach basic notation. In Russia, it is used only in music schools to introduce young children to woodwind instruments before "transitioning" them to a traverse flute or reeds when their hands are large enough. Neither country takes recorder teaching seriously. It's not intended for eventually playing early music, or learning alto/tenor recorder, so they go with "easier" fingering that would have caused issues later on if students progressed in their recorder study.
Katie, you are an inspiration. Thank-you. And I, also, support and emphasize music learning in school. I was an Engineer , will always be one, and now also I am an Educateur with emphasis on those with special needs.
One of the 1st things I got to learn on a recorder was how to imitate a mourning dove! After this, I was kind of a fan of Jethro Tull & came almost note for note perfect to his version of Bach's Broullee. Hardest area of the recorder for me was it's lowest note. I tried everything to get it going but it was elusive. Could be I did create "tension" & just never figured it out. I haven't played in years but want to get back into it
OMG this was SO fun! I dug out my recorder and played along and actually it was pretty easy to follow. I think I am also going to work on the Titanic melody! Thank you for this video!
If u intend to keep studying the recorder, i can reeally recommend u the yamaha 400 series.... Those recorders sound as good as a nice handmade wooden recorder but they r still made of bioplastic (an eco-friendly material) and also very cheap!!! Peace ✌️
Katie is just as impatient as I am when learning another instrument, lol Your instincts from playing your regular instrument kicks in and you abort the lesson!!!😂😂🤣
Number 500. I learned recorder, but the teacher spoke too fast so I couldn't memorize the note placement on the lines so I just memorized where to fingers, songs on the recorder were never that complicated in year 1 and 2 of primary school, I think it was kind of used to either be a release for unspoken oppression blowing really hard, and entire people who hear and speak music or poetry. I thought about buying one of these recently, but I have 3 flutes of metal, one of a green stone from Japan and a harmonica I only fluke good sounds from. Big chief Indian warrior was my favourite tune and probably the only one I can still do within a min. Well done, I could never play like that, nor did I think to realise they were used in all the old sword and shield films. You brighten the coming of spring. I bet birds love it around your house. I blew in an empty bottle in a filed full of birds in trees and they all listened, then 5 mins later the field next to me filled with sea gulls, don't know if they thought I was a boat, but they appeared from nowhere, was funny.
i like how you tried it instead of looking down on it. my advice is to blow a bit less hard, and know the tongue articulations are t but also k and r so depending on the letter you say your note attack change a. that's cool to make it sound more diverse. second advice, you can play the second octave by putting your fingernail on your thumb hole. some people cover half of the hole but I and others find placing your nail much easier because the sound is clear. also you'll find out if you have a good recorder or not depending on if your high notes sound clean or not but your technique is also a factor. don't worry! it's easy to make the recorder sound good, you just need to use the tongue articulations and take it seriously, you can do it, random music youtuber I just found and in which I'm now very invested. you bring honour to the recorder 😁
This will be interesting. So, I don’t really play recorder now, but I used to as a school thing, basically because at the time I was having piano lessons and it was another musical opportunity. I wasn’t amazing, but the teacher thought it held potential, so she suggested to me that I try learning a woodwind instrument. So I started flute, and I love it! Unfortunately I can’t remember much recorder, but it definitely helped build bases and lead me on to flute.
I follow both your and Sarah’s channels as I’m a flautist & recorder player. I’m surprised that you only begin recorder in Grade 4 - in the UK we had a regular recorder lesson in primary school from age 5! Most people don’t carry on with it, but I love it! Began learning flute from age 10 & is definitely the harder of the 2 instruments for me. There are similarities though & I like to play flute pieces on my recorders when I can. Recently began learning clarinet & that is soooo different to recorder & flute!
This was awesome!! I have been inspired by Sarah to learn recorder and have been working mainly with early music for over 3 years. Got to play a bit in a recorder trio last year. So awesome! Love it love it love it 😊 Flute intimidated me, until a friend gifted me hers and i'm now learning flute. Slow progress, mainly breathing issues. Flute requires SO MUCH air. But thank you for the inspiration, pink awesomeness and cool crossover!! 😊
Fun fact! In 5th grade our music class played recorder, and then my mom forced me to do band the next year. And, me being me I did not want to do band! But I chose to do flute, and I think the recorder helped and now I love flute!!
I used to learn recorder in middle and elementary school, because a lot of schools in my country decided to make the students play this instrument. Now I play flute, but I still like recorder
I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but I thought the fingering for the early wooden transverse flutes was the same as for the recorder. I notice the vibrato creeping in - I do that if I play my recorder, and I certainly do when playing my flute.
we are also made to play that thing in schools in Portugal and its my lifelong nemesis....I had trouble with air flow, coordination, my fingers didn't fit the holes right...I still don't know how I passed musical education at all to this day I learnt the guitar easy and faster than I did that thing
I was watching her finally playing the Titanic after 2 lessons HAHAHAHA. I'm so serious about watching her and at the same time...Amazed but then suddenly there's the "The End".😀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The only reason I didn’t have to play the recorder in 4th grade was because I was homeschooled in 4th grade but now I play flute in my band so I guess I would of been fine if I played the recorder- maybe
Being able to double on recorder is actually useful for flutists - It opens the way to much beautiful Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. A good-quality plastic alto/treble recorder (Yamaha and Aulos are the best money-for-value brands) might be a purchase to be considered.
I started in recorder for 6 month then transitioned to flute after that I been playing flute ever since.. I inspirados a Russian flute player story about barber in (book story) live person..
What's the outro music please? I know it's Brandenburg Concerto, but which one? I remember learning this at college in Music, and it just takes me back!
I think "flutist" is the American word, in Britain and probably other English speaking countries apart from in North America it is "flautist". I'm British so I would say "flautist" :)
Playing the recorder before playing the flute isn't essential just for America but I guess every country. I come from Slovakia (little country in Central Europe) and it works there this way too. When I started playing the recorder I was like five or six and when I turned eleven, I switched on flute (it's actually pretty funny, because in Slovak, we call both of them flute, just the actual flute is called side flute😁)
Same in Dutch, recorders and flutes and tin whistles etc are "fluiten" but if you want to be more specific you can say "blokfluit" (recorder) "dwarsfluit" (flute, or sideways flute :P) etc.