Recorder Lesson 5 is up! This week we are working on skipping motion, which means the notes played must skip another note on the staff to get to the desired note. In other words, going from G to B, skipping over A! Skipping motion requires more finger coordination, so a lot of the lesson is training your muscles to move the way you need them to! We also go over some new note lengths- half notes and whole notes. Half notes are two beats long, and whole notes are four beats long. In previous lessons, we worked on quarter notes, which are one beat long, and eighth notes, which are half a beat long.
Guess what? If you check out my Teachers Pay Teachers Store, you can download the visuals from the lesson for free! These are great to print off and post on a wall or bulletin board for visual reminders of note lengths. Here is one of the visuals that I love:
I hope you enjoy my silly songs I composed this week, Elevator Jam! and Skippety Skip! I had a lot of fun making the accompaniment, as you can probably tell :-). Enjoy the lesson, and post any questions in the comments!
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