G A B in Lesson 3!

I hope you have been practicing! For lesson 3, we are learning the proper fingering for G, practicing moving our fingers between G, A, and B, and reading G, A and B on the music staff! As you add more notes, it is important to really train your muscles in your fingers to move the way you need them to! On my Teachers Pay Teachers page, you can find the free downloadable resources for lesson 3. I will eventually go over this in my videos, but something I added this week was a fingering chart. A fingering chart is simply a visual aide you can print and hang on your wall to help you remember the proper fingerings for each of the notes. As we learn more notes, I will update the fingering charts with the most up to date notes. Below is what this week’s fingering chart looks like. The single circle on the left of each note represents the hole on the back of the recorder, and the row of holes on the right represent the holes on the front of the recorder. The horizontal line separates right hand and left hand. The left hand covers the holes ABOVE the horizontal line, and the right hand covers holes BELOW the line. The numbers represent the number labels we have given our fingers (ex. thumb= 0, index finger= 1, etc.).

Some tips for lesson 3!

• As you begin to cover more holes, it is going to be easier to blow too fast and squeak! Be sure not to blow too fast!
• When you learn Hot Cross Buns, it will help to rewind and practice along with the video a few times.
• When the camera is on the music staff and you are playing, there will be times where you can distinctly see what holes my fingers are covering on the recorder, and other times where you can’t see my recorder at all. This has a purpose! My goal is for the student to be able to READ the notes on the staff instead of copying my fingers. I understand there are times where the student might want to get a visual reinforcement and make sure they are covering the correct holes, but the BEST way to know whether or not they are covering the correct holes is to listen with their ears and hear whether or not their pitch matches mine. If the pitch doesn’t match, from there you reassess whether it is a fingering issue or a blowing issue.
• HAVE FUN!

This lesson will be a blast! Don’t forget to post any questions you have in the comments!