We Try Learning Recorder in 1 Hour 

ik, I wish she was my teacher 😢

And the cheap plastic POSs the students are playing on. I've always thought that if you're gonna learn the recorder, then you should learn on a _proper_ recorder.

A room full of *cheap* recorders all playing *badly* at the same time, I think you meant to say...

@@dancoroian1 Could be worse, could be a room full of cheap violins, all playing badly at the same time. :)

Yes

No, they’re just clowns 🤡

@@andrewcordle2424 lmao what

@@andrewzhang8512 My comment is clear… If you have seen any of their other videos you would know exactly what I’m saying 🤷🏼‍♂️

"teakettles with anxiety" is a wonderful turn of phrase

Exactly! What a beautiful way to put it!

Well, Phoebe roasted them, but it was all in good fun still. Besides, they're already string players so Phoebe didn't have to teach as much.

@@march.7561 Phoebe? or Lucie?

Lol, I get what you mean but c'mon...classical musicians know nothing about BEEF!!! Hahahaha😂

@@TheRealestIdealist I was there for the east vs west coast Recorder player turf wars. I walked down south central one night when a gang of 6 all beat me senseless with plastic yamaha tenors. Another night a guy jumped me and smacked me in the face with a pillowcase full of headjoints.

@@kishascape LMAOOOO!!! 😂

Bro it would be just an hour of squeaky cries from the recorder

Also the recorders we had at school were cheap and sounded cheap, especially the honner ones, those are terrible, and also any colorfull, transparent or filled whith patterns. But also not even teachers really knew technique, and another problem. Ironically, recorders are not good for kids, because they require patience and precision, things kids suck at, same happens whith watercolours, most kids had the cheapest ones, and weren't given much advice, just, "paint whatever" and many times using print paper, so most paintings looked dirty, you count draw whith the cheap brush cause it didn't have a tip and the paper got all wrinkly or whith holes on them. Same thing, watercolour looks beautiful when done whith decent materials on a paper that can hold it, just because our watercolours sucked doesn't mean the medium is bad, we were were just set up for frustration from the beginning because most teachers don't really care. Patience and precision, those are adult skills

We had recorder lessons at school and we didn't just blow as hard as we could. Maybe that's because we listened to our teacher and cared about doing well.

@@malahamavet very much so

@@onemanfranyeah these other people’s school culture sounds bad. Teachers who didn’t care, kids who just grabbed and did the most violent thing possible to the instrument. My school wasn’t like that either

sometimes i think recorders get a bad rap because the musical technique required to play them in tune and with consistent tone is out of reach of so many people.

yeah, the fact that you can start playing decent pieces after a couple of hours of training just means that the instrument is meant to be actually used by humans, unlike khmmm... some other instruments :D

@@0biwan7 It's true, you do need a good ear for pitch, so you're not always blowing sharp or flat, but if you're a budding musician, that's a skill you should already have or will need to develop anyway. I play tin/penny whistles, too, and you encounter the same challenge. But all told, they're much easier than starting on guitar or keys or fretless instruments.

My favourite thing about the recorder is how accessible it is. It’s extremely cheap to start compared to other woodwinds and a plastic Yamaha can take you pretty far.

@@milkteamachine Definitely! They sound amazing for such cheap instruments. No way you'd get started with a guitar or keyboard or violin anywhere near that cheaply.

my class had gotten our recorder privileges taken away so I never got to experience it lmao

@@bertramwinkleofficialprivileges✨

Not a flex but never had to experience that 😎

My school didn’t even have a music class 😭

@@zaniyahmuhammad1520you should be happy about that lol

They wouldn't have made the video if she wasn't teaching them seriously.

wickedly *skilled!* 🤯

The Dutch Wit

I've played recorder for a good amount of time and it absolutely is a serious instrument.

Isn't flute a better recorder?

@@120rikeshlawoju2 hell nah

​@@120rikeshlawoju2recorders and transverse flutes do not produce sound in the same way.

I agree. Recorder is very difficult and sounds amazing! Ever heard the Telemann recorder concertos, so good!

Very much so. Tongue and finger coordination is very important, it's especially obvious on recorder. Any little detail can be heard.

Yes, true! I don't know why people separate the recorder from the flute. The recorder is a type of flute. I like to refer to my recorder as a blockflute....only cause "recorder" became a bad word lol

And the Saxophone and the clarinet,…

@@jonaslenz1997 Oh wow, that’s good to know! I would also assume the harmonica, the kazoo, ocarina maybe lol

And french horn. That is a legit technique used in the cadenza of Carl Maria von Weber's Concertino in e minor.

In spanish is called "flauta" so for me is very weird when people says "recorder is not a flute" lol

(finally 😂)

@@Miriam-ob8tz Indeed😅

Yeah I started when I was 6 and have been playing for almost 8 years

@@sofiabosco7892 nice! What a pro!

@@sabrinai I also have been playing piano for 3 years and plan on being a professional pianist in the future

We learned it after elementary school (grade 1-4), but music was just a "it exists" subject without any purpose after like our first two years in German high school and we stopped learning anything really. No music history at all, no more note readings or instrument learning. We never learned chords and we had to make out chords in our final music exam (grade 13). Teacher's solution was to explain it during the exam, but it failed miserably. I'm still bitter about our music education in school.

​@@backspacer92 auf was für eine Schule und in welchem Bundesland warst du, dass man euch absolut nicht musiktheotetisches beigebracht hat? Bei uns wurde auch viel gesungen, weil iwie alle das wollten, um nichts machen zu müssen, aber trotzdem hatten wir Theorie. (War bei mir aber trotzdem zu wenig für mein musikwissenschaftliches Studium und ich musste mir alles selber beibringen, um die Klausuren bestehen zu können 😅)

Mate that proved nothing…if anything, it proved how easy wind instruments were. Just because two internet personalities are exaggerating their struggles, doesn’t make an instrument objectively difficult at all. While two beginner recorder players are able to play Vivaldi in an hour, I wonder how many wind players can even play twinkle twinkle in one hour on the violin?

@@_.Sir_Isaac_Newton._ Dude, the only person trying to say their instrument is harder is you. I simply said that people who call wind instruments easy quite often get humbled when they try it. And who can? Hi, me. I am that wind player. It's almost like when you already have a lot of knowledge for musical theory you get to skip quite a few steps in learning an instrument that other beginners don't.

⁠@@_.Sir_Isaac_Newton._at ten, a friend let me borrow his violin for a few minutes and after experimenting a bit, I played twinkle somewhat decently; I only played piano at the time. Violin is most definitely a hard instrument, but don’t discount other musicians’ ability to learn

I think both instruments are very hard to play idk why a competition has to be brought into everything luv

@@bedroombunny9529 yeah and wind is still easier than strings so cry

I swear it’s better than my 8 years of playing

hahah I've been learning for over a year and still sound bad, but I love my recorders :) 😃

Keep practicing everybody has it's own development, with time you will be rocking out.

Oh I would love to see that

@@mariavidineeva2524 speaking as a piper, I would also love to see it! 😄

Yes I think she meant you can literally sing into the instrument and it will resonate out while other wind instruments require some nonstandard multiphonic technique. But that still doesn’t sound like a correct statement.

Yes, I've also encountered it once in my bassoon days.

The elite instrument, very difficult to master

I thought they're done with the European leg and now it's the North American and Asian stops but the tour website still have some European destinations so they plan to go back? I'm confused. Maybe it all depends on the number of sign-ups

@@oxoelfoxo Yes, kinda, but tour has only just begun. This is their 2023-2024 tour, and they have only annoced the places for "leg 1", meaning its a lot more tour dates and cities to come! :D Also the tour is lasting until 2024, but their last stop at leg 1 in vancouver was on July 6th, so yeah.. im keeping my hpes up! :D

*redeem but points for creativity!

And yet it's so hard to play well

I have a few tin whistles. Smaller, cheaper, no reeds either, can't be tuned either, and I prefer the sound. They're much less flexible though - you only have the notes of a specific major scale (D, most commonly), and notes that are not in that scale are quite hard to produce cleanly, so you can really only play tunes in the main major key and its minor parallel, although one step to the flat side in the circle of fifths also works mostly fine (so a tune in G can be played ok on a D whistle). No idea why first graders are supposed to play recorders instead when the alternative is easier and cheaper (and therefore better to introduce children to making music - I suppose quite a few kids were actually discouraged from making music because they hated playing the recorder in first grade).

@@joycastle. 100% agree. Recorder is a technically complicated instrument. It's makes no sense why it was chosen by the world's school systems as the "beginning" instrument. I have to say out of tradition at this point... Btw, I hear you can get some chromatacisim out of a tin whistle if you use half holes. I should get a few and try it out. I once did have a fife which is the exact same fingering.

@@joshuapettus6973 Well the main reason I see is the lack of any embouchure needed to actually make a sound - you just blow and you make noise. (Doesn't mean it's an easy instrument to master however.) It's also cheap if you mass manufacture in plastic especially with no keywork. A lot of people were actually against the idea of making recorders the beginner instrument in the 50s exactly for the reasons as seen in this video.

@@joshuapettus6973 Yeah, the half holes work, but it isn't super clean. I suppose with 40h practice per day, you can make it work, but at my amateur level it's always a bit of hit and miss. But music for first graders should be rather simple, anyway, so the limitation isn't a big deal. If I remember correctly, an Irish colleague told me that first graders in Ireland actually learn to play the tin whistle, not the recorder.

@@Makenza_ Recorder is known as a 'sweet flute' in quite a few languages, e.g. Flauto dolce. I presume that's where this comes from.