How To Make A Recorder Sound Good: The Big 3

In this video, I'll talk about how to make a recorder sound good using the Big 3 Method I've used to teach recorder for over 10 years.
When it comes to learning how to make a recorder sound good, these 3 tips will dramatically increase your sound--guaranteed!
1. Soft air
2. Soft "T" Tongue
3. Cover The Holes
Not only do I talk about how to play a recorder with good sound, but I also include some exercises for making sure you, your child, or your students get these 3 things down.
Related resources:
How To Play The Recorder - dynamicmusicro...
Easy songs on recorder - dynamicmusicro...
How to hold the recorder - dynamicmusicro...
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[@SuMitchell]

I'm an adult, quite impatient, and easily bored, so I'm glad to come across this. Originally when I was looking into learning how to play a recorder, the videos aimed at adults, seem to expect you to learn all the notes, before you play any tunes :-( BORING! Your teaching is great. (57 year old child)

[@dynamicmusicroom221]

Awesome to hear! Thanks!

[@Blazqe]

P

[@Aurora_k86]

Thank you for all these videos ❤️ I had no idea you can play recorder like this. I loved to play recorder as a child and now when my own kid has her own recorder I started to play it again 😍

[@darth_jamie]

Thanks for the tips, love the channel

[@verabieber]

👍We need such videos!

[@user-kh5ig4tr9y]

You have made my day 😊❤

[@juliannahikaru9912]

This video is all I needed, thank you!

[@virtualmike13]

Thanks! Learning this early helps ease the pain for a beginner.

[@dynamicmusicroom221]

You got this!

[@kitten_582]

Gave us a dieing cat moment ok

[@user-sm7fu7ds1y]

cool

[@Blazqe]

Hi

[@laurac-ss1cp]

I call that the finger pad as opposed to the tip

[@davidmdyer838]

The recorder was NOT replaced by the flute. That's like saying the harp replaced the guitar because the guitar wasn't loud enough (not true either, of course). It's not like orchestras had recorders then needed something louder and got flutes, that's NOT what happened. They existed side by side but had different roles and different social associations. The recorder was never an orchestral instrument, it was the gentleman's instrument, the flute was associated with the military and a professional's instrument (professional doesn't mean better player, it means one who makes a living at it, not a person in high social standing before the 19th century). The recorder played in many kinds of ensembles in the Renaissance, but in the Baroque period, when the flute was arguably softer than the recorder, the flute was far more likely to be used in orchestral ensembles. The recorder might have been tossed in for church music or occasional variety, but it was mostly a chamber and private instrument from the 18th century onward.

[@NOkitchen181]

bro chill dont give a paragraph

[@tommywiseau_]

my C and D sound so shrill. so frustrating

[@screamityeah]

I think a big mistake is trying to teach this stereotypical boring songs, the first song i learned was half of Titanic than i moved to Aladin A Whole New World.

[@chadjacobs6070]

All these two two twos into the recorder........sooooo much spit

[@dynamicmusicroom221]

Not a lot of room for the spot to go either!