How to READ MUSIC | Team Recorder 

I played strictly as an amateur for about 10 or 15 years. A year ago I quit playing because I wasn't sure where I was going with it. You've renewed my interest and I am again practicing regularly. Thank you!

Already hard enough to read notes now I need to do math hahahaha

I’m sorry I fell a sleep in class again. Lol. I’m 60+ and still can stay a wake. But you are so much more fun then my old school teacher so I’m going to sit and watch the video again because I must learn. Lol

Thank you for your videos. I've always wanted to play a musical instrument. So now that I'm 60 I've decided to learn. Someone said that the recorder is fairly simple to learn and not expensive for a beginner. Found your videos and this one is just what I need since I don't read music. Thank you again 💜

Thank you so much for this. Greetings from Philippines 🇵🇭 Just want to say that your vlogs is such a big help with my music ministry in our church (me as a recorder player) Keep inspiring us🙂 GOD BLESS you and your family❣️

I'm a hemidemisemiprofessional musician.

Wonderful video for learning the music basic terms in English as well! Even if I know them in my origin language. Thank you so much!

Starting recorder has helped me get back into sight reading. I have played piano for years and basically scrapped reading score once I found that I could play along to falling bars on online pianist and never have to figure out notes ever again. So for many years I have been learning songs on my ipad because it is so much easier and more fun. Then in December I started to learn the recorder after watching all of your great videos. So as a beginner and because they don't do falling note midi for recorder I have gotten back into reading music again. It is soo nice to only have one note at a time to read you are so lucky lol. As a pianist you can have 7 or more notes and a pedal. So not having to work out chords is nice too. I like though that there is so much to playing recorder not just notes. I feel as a pisnist most of your time is taken up getting the notes and finger patterns right but with recorder I feel much more free to work on the actual sound, rythm feeling etc. This is really helping my piano practice because I am much more sound and passion focussed rather than getting the notes perfect focussed. So thanks a lot for your inspiration.

Beautifully done. Everything was so clear. Thank you and Happy Valentine’s Day to you, Jon and Bodil.

Ms Sarah, you are a delight! I read a bit of music but your explanation made many aspects a great deal clearer. I’ve restarted learning the alto recorder and look forward to binge watching all your videos. Cheers!

I already knew how to read a little bit of music, but I did learn some things that I didn't know... So thank you for making this video! It helps alot.

I LOVE your series. I just signed up for TeamRecorder on Patreon. I am finding all aspects of learning how to play my alto recorder really fun, including how to read music.

Hey Sarah! Great video. You ought to have mentioned that recorders all read at concert pitch! That is sort of relevant to reading music on the recorder, I’d say. 😅 Perhaps make a follow-up video in the future that includes interval/ear training as well? As always, thanks for all the hard work you do in keeping us all informed and entertained! 🎶

This is gold. I'm experienced with notation, but never had anything like this to help me learn it when I started out. Thanks Sarah!

I actually really appreciate you making these videos and teaching us how to read the sheet music and notes and how to play. I've been learning to play for my son☺️

You are brilliant! I so enjoy watching your enthusiastic presentations. Although I don't expect to take up recorder playing at this late stage of my life, watching you does tickle my creative instinct as well as puts a smile on my face. I learned a lot from this presentation that satisfies my curiosity. Thank-you, Sarah Jeffery! 😀😀

your video are absolute gold, love them

Thank you for this info. I’m just learning this instrument. Your videos are very helpful. Also, you are hilarious and I for one appreciate that.

Sarah, this is so helpful and really clarified things for me. Honestly a great job that I don't think many can parallel. Thank you for all your videos which I've used solely to learn to play the recorder. Best music teacher ever. ❤️

Greetings from Russia. You're great! Every time when I watch you I find some to improve my English listening, some to know more about recorders and some to LOL =))). Thanks a lot for good sence of humor. I have my own plastic recorder, but have no time to play

I've always learned that Ritardando is slowing down over a short time (i.e. 2 bars) and Rallentando is over a longer period of time (i.e. 8 bars). Words like this get so confusing after a while, I always tell my composition students to use the language they are most comfortable with. Amongst many others, terms I would use here are "slow down", "getting slower", or "slow down lots". It avoids the inevitable trumpet player asking what "Largo non troppo" means.

Hi Sarah! I love your videos. They inspire me to learn something more about the Recorders and its fantastic world. Now I'm working in some new clefs: So I'm playing the C clef for the Tenor Recorder. The G clef for the Alto Recorder. The D clef for the Soprano Recorder and the A clef for the Sopranino Recorder. These two last clefs are brand new for the 21th century and. I hope one day I could show you my Recorder project work. So far so good everything in my project is amazingly awesome!! Greetings from Tijuana!

Ah well that convinced me. No point in carrying on trying to learn to read music. It's math based and no matter how hard I tried I never even grasped learning my math table. Read the same "my first recorder book" for DECADES but nothing goes in & stays in same as maths. I have consistently spelt minutes wrong all my life & continue to do so. I'm now 62. Spent all my life in work, ran my own business for over 30 years so its frustrating and makes me furious and angry with myself I just can't seem to absorb things kiddies have no problem with. Although my dear Granny was a excellent pianist but couldn't even whistle a tune without sheet music yet both my parents could play any tune "by ear" mainly keyboard instuments. So don't be put off by this excellent instructional video if you do struggle like me. Everyone can get great enjoyment playing any instrument even if they can't read a note of music. I do.

very informative, I went an learnt to sing in a harmony group, and understood the multiple voices bit, and the treble and bass (I'm a bass). relearning the recorder saprano and buying an alto, this video will help me to get across it all. well done!

Thank you Sahra, so Happy to find your RU-vid Channel. Greetings from West Germany. Stay well💞

Clarinet player here. GOOD JOB and thank you! You clarified the sFz for me lol!!

Thank you. My friend wants to learn, so I'm going tot send this so him.

Thank you Sarah learning Music has rarely been so enjoyable.

I like this fast music theory class! It is very understandably! Thank you!

This must be the best theory lesson for recorder, for someone who has zero musical background. Thank you, Sarah. I’m sending this to a friend.

Best tutorial I've ever seen.....gonna download soon to learn playing recorder when I receive it soon

Thanks for helping me!☺️

Thank you so much, lovely Sarah!

It's a whole lot of information in single video but u explained really well. Loved the way u explained everything Clear neat precise♥️

This might be the best video so far!

Thanks for the refresher.

2:45 One other clef, among many, is the alto or C clef - for all you aspiring viola players. 😊 ♫ 🎻 BTW: 8:07 There’s two for the books, the key signatures: C flat major and C sharp major that are hardly ever seen. And let’s not neglect the F flat major signature. That one has six flats and one double flat - Wow! 😲

Learning music is well worth the effort as it really does open up a new world of music. Take it steadily and do a little every day: little and often. You will be surprised at how quickly you will learn it. Take care.x

All the Italian I know, I learnt from reading music. Great video, thanks.

Amazing video !!! Thank you!

Yay.BIG THANKS ! Looks like I finally have new year resolution to finally got that "dot s#it" in my brain ! Biggest problem will be counting note measures and not giving up. Your video about playing every note also very helps ! I had mussic lessons in high school but teacher was eating sandwiches before and now all I can remember is pieces of ham beetween his teeth while we had to sing patriotic songs.. All best4You

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Fourteen lessons in as many minutes. :0) Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge.

Helpful even for me. I learned to read music as a kid playing double bass. I didn't realize some things had more then one name...I finally know what a stave is and a few other symbols I'd never come across as a kid. Glad I learned all the italian words early on, made it easier for dynamics/tempo.

非常有帮助，简单 清晰！

A few alternatives: in the US, it's staff not stave, but the plural is still staves. The horizontal bar above/below a note is a tenuto, if over there it's a portato. Portato as a bowing instruction for viols is written like demi-staccato, dots under a slur. And the portato and tormato are musical nightshades (not really). My teacher called a fermata, a hold. Don't know how widespread that is, though.

Hello Sarah, once again you prove yourself an excellent video-didactitian. It was all very clear and easy to understand. Of course musical theory can be a bit of a lump to swallow, but there is no way around it. My problem is with solfège: I can read a rhythm decently but after so many years I still cannot "hear" the music just by reading the notes. It is something that bothers me a lot and I look forward to a future video where you give us tips on that as well?

Thank you good fairy for the tons of lectures you gave us :) ~

Great video! Very educational!

I'm a flute player and I already know how to read treble and bass clef and bit of alto clef too, but I saw the grenadilla recorder and wanted to listen to you play it.

I learned to read music in french, I really enjoyed this tutorial to actually translate all these music terms =)

Yes, all very informative Sarah - for those who don't already know. It's really not so hard or daunting as many who have never read music seem to imagine. But I would have to say that, if one were looking for the most ILLOGICAL system conceivable of notating all the elenents that you enumerate - then the, now universal, system which we have would certainly fit the bill! The old Renaissance system of TABLATURES was at least for sure LOGICAL. The only problem was: while it certainly worked well for many of the *stringed* instruments which were so popular in that time ... like the lute and its relatives, or the viols say - it was pretty useless and impractical for WIND instruments of the day - like indeed the RECORDER (!) and not much help for players of the keyboard instruments then popular - like the clavichord and the (early) harpsichord. Furthernore, of course, these *tablatures* were not transferrable as a notation system between instruments. Music written in LUTE tablature, for example, was of little use to a VIOL player; none at all - obviously - to a CLAVICHORDIST. Oh dear! You would have had to - painstakingly - 'transliterate' the entire piece for your own instrument (mixed consorts of course would have had their own problems over notation systems!). The inventor of the AUTOHARP (Charles Zimmerman) thought he had designed an instrument which could only be played (and could be used to teach) his own (invented) alternative notation system of letters and numbers. But, as we know, it never caught on! In very truth it was no less unweildy than the standardised notation system - so illogical as that is - which we are all 'stuck with'. Of course you'll get some musicians - especially in the world of jazz and blues (and some folk and ethnic 'world' music too) who would insist that they 'play by ear' - and some might be to 'proud' (?) of what they do to ever even deign to learn to read a single note of music. INDIAN (CLASSICAL) MUSIC .... with its complex body of theory based on the RAGAS (of which there are, in theory, over 200 - though only a few if these are widely used in most performance)... but it is an IMPROVISED music; there is no notation system as such. Maybe some day someone will come up with (where Zimmerman failed obviously .... though he did, as a by-product beqeath to the world a nifty new North American (but now much more widely used) folk instrument; or succeed where Stockhausen et al - with their 'tone rows' and 'twelve note' (or 'atonal') systems failed to be universal either... maybe some day someone will come with a UNIVERSAL and NOT OVER-COMPLICATED notation system that *is* logical, but is also PRACTICAL??? Maybe - but I for one am not holding my breath waiting for it!!

Another great video thank you.

Oh god... thank you SO MUCH, this is USEFUL as hell

So much to remember.

The comma for breathing. Great clip though. :)

Love the hand movements 8:23

Straight teaching

I've been reading music since I was wee, so I hear it as I read it, but this has been an awesome introduction for my daughter, who wondered why a double-sharp isn't just written as the "next note up." I told her, "That's for another time, love." She accepted that. Her world is 440--she said, "It sounds higher than mine, daddy," and I'm not going to confuse her with anything else, yet, especially enharmonics. ;-) And I totally dig the Aeolian on C at the beginning for the first scale example. Your videos are fantastic!

Me, a musician: I needed this video. \s

Music is very confusing for my beginner ADHD brain. You make it interesting. I need to watch this 20 times to be able to remember :D

Sarah is one of my favorites on RU-vid ❤

YOUR A AMAZING RECORDER PLAYER IT MEANS YOUR A PRO

Thanks!!!

I have been reading music since I’m 5 yo, but in French, as I’m French Canadian, but now I’m in a pipeband and everything is in English so your video is really helping me! Thanks! And I really prefer the British name for the notes! The other way is kind of boring....

💕❤💟you helped me so much

As someone who plays the piano, I did chuckle at one glaring omission: Chords. ;)

I belive it is important to remark for beginners: a bar line shows where is a strong beat, not where is a boundary between meters. (Although, this is just a matter of perception). The positions of caesurae which will divide the music into phrases, and the position of bar lines, generally speaking, are different.

You're Amazing Lovely Sarah 😊 I love the way you Teach 👌😄❤🌸🌹🌸

You are so smart. 𝄋🐰𝄋

Thank you so much

Okey creo que te amo ♥️ In English "I like the flutes" :)

Your Italian accent was quite good actually! ;)

Hi Sarah! Related to the topic of this presentation - would you do a video on how to use a metronome and foot tapping to keep time? i.e. how does the click or tap relate to the written and played music? Thanks.

I can read music already but this video was brilliant and concise. You explained everything a lot better than I could.

As for 3:33: if it's any consolation, we have funny names, too, in Italy; but regular (fraction) names also. So we have fancy names and logical names, you choose whichever you like :)

Oh man it's easy to see how torturous sight reading can become with those evil dots.

I'm from Indonesian nice to know you

Thank you. Can you do a video on buying choices of an adult recorder for an absolute beginner

One thing I took a long time to realize is that those flags on the note tails - there's a rule for how they're joined. Notes that fall in a beat are joined together. After I realized this I was blown how much more easier it was to read music.

Thank u.....

Yeah, It's good to keep coming back to this vid a lot. I don't understand the point of the double flat and double sharp signs. Why not just mark the note lower or higher?

I can play anything if i can remember it. Reading music is still unknown to me

To be honest i kinda regret watching this video before i used to memorize all the notes , I am only remember 5 notes then i skip to this. 😅. But i started to understand some of the symbol on the music sheets. i am still a beginner tho 😆 but i will try my best. Thank you 😄

You have good control on your instrument. What is the specifications of the recorder you are using here. I wish to procure it.

im only 11 but this sort of helped me and my music teacher is still jelous of me that im better than him but im trying to learn more songs whenever i can

this video format reminds me of a upisnotjump video

I tried to measure the metric of 27/16. The end result was 6 groups of 4 16th notes plus 1 16th note triplet per bar. So yeah. Also, what are beams?

I Wish You could Help me. I Love sound , I just wish I were able to understand what finger to lift or lower or when to lift as you tongue while blowing ... Im a mess please help

So much easier in french for the note value Ronde, blanche, noire, croche, double croche, etc.

Oh yeah, and what Dommsound626 said ! He's me or I'm him or where us ? Or I'm a tree and your me but let's leave Jean-Paul Sautre out of this ! I just can't see a book about the philosophy of recording the recorder . I'm tired , been a wild morning ,woke up don't know where? But the lady is very pretty . Should I stay or should I go? Is that too much info ? My filter broke, next my brain,,,soon 🍌...at ease and carry on ! From the 514 , MTL , QC ., CA .

Maybe a personal question here -------- do you have perfect pitch? !!!!! (as in - when you play the recorder ...... do you know in advance exactly what the pitch is for the note you want to play - without doing any preliminary calibration?)

Tangent to reading music, how does a beginner get sheet music? Most of what turns up in a web search is over five dollars a song or membership that is also a bit steep.

Na wa ooo...

My mom thinks I'm asleep and im getting a recorder in school for the B.A.G thing but I need to read music

Hello, excuse this question that may seem childish: I often see a sign "+" above the notes on the scores. Could you tell me how to play them, please? thank you so much

Since you ask, YOU FORGOT all of the stuff I can't even pronounce!!!! How can you do that!!! But thanks for the rest, I am getting a little of it sofar..lol I will learn!!

What about the hemidemisemihemidemiquaver?

Didn't know that math and pateince were prerequisites to learning sheet music 😭 I dont think im fit for this but I AINT QUITTING

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