Turn Your Cheap Recorder into a PRO Sounding Recorder

Turn your cheap recorder into a great sounding musical instrument, don't waste its potential! I am using a $8.99 soprano recorder here to show you how it's done. After this tutorial, your recorder skills might exceed your teacher's! LOL!
This is the recorder I used in this video:
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and the maple alto recorder:
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[@austinraines69]

Really nice, I remember when I played the recorder in elementary school and I never knew that it could sound that amazing.

[@Chiinnature]

Thanks! Same here, I never thought it can be so amazing until I finally pick one up again recently... comparing to my high school memory... it's two different world and I am also using a cheap soprano here only.. wow!

[@ellipsesmemolalhappyellips9885]

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[@RoyceBarber]

Thank you soooo much for this information!!

[@vkmanna]

Royce Barber yes, thank you 😊

[@pabslondon]

I assumed he was going for a bamboo flute vibe

[@kevinm.pfeiffer5037]

Yes, the recorder is a gentle (not loud) instrument -- that's it's nature, but "blowly barely enough to hear the notes" is definitely the wrong approach and a misunderstanding of what he meant. One controls the air volume and speed as necessary in order to produce the best possible tone at the needed pitch for any given note and piece of music. Furthermore, a (properly made) hand-made instrument is more likely (not less) to have all notes in tune. And with any recorder (or musical instrument), it's always the musician's responsibility to adjust the pitch as necessary. Finally, even an uninflected note (no "special effects") is not played as a flat monotone -- musical notes have a shape and are at the same time part of a continuous line (i.e. stream of air, if you will).

[@InciteFire]

Thanks for the tips, Royce - wherever you are.

[@RonRonnard]

This is an excellent tutorial. You have tranferred your know how about playing the Chinese flute to the playing of the recorder.

[@LifeBetweenTheDash]

Loved the tutorial. I just picked up a recorder and got some great tips that instantly made my notes and playing better. Much thanks.

[@lukefunk8865]

Wonderful playing! Also thank you for the help with my recorder!

[@jamievanaalderen3806]

The last flute gave me goose bumps. I love Chinese culture, used to work with Chinese people and they taught me some Mandarin. 你非常好！

[@fedaykinnaib]

Thank your for your tutorial on the recorder. I now have high regard for this instrument. They dont explain this well in school.

[@christopherstube9473]

I was totally transported by your use of the Dolmetsch flute with Chinese cultural idioms. I carry a little Yamaha soprano flute with me on hikes to have something to play but you take it to many more levels above anything i do yet and so i am grateful to have heard you. I am also experimenting on the Paraguayan lever harp, so my eyes naturally went to your harp in the background. Thank you so much for the demonstration, you are always coming up with good surprises.

[@turkeysuit9935]

Christopher Stube I keep my recorder in my sleeve

[@christopherstube9473]

Your sleeve probably feels priveleged to hold it for you, but it is also carrying your emotions on your sleeve

[@Todomo]

Wow that music you played was beautiful

[@damascenoribeiro3109]

Nice tutorial, men, mostly for teaching playing soft. However, if you learn the right fingering of recorder, it will sound even better. After seeing you playing the Chinese flute, I saw you kept the Chinese fingering - that is more like a baroque transverse flute. You got a recorder with baroque fingering (the earlier one). Thus, the F requires more two fingers, the ringer and the tiny one. In the higher octave, C and D you get by fingerings with fewer fingers than low B, they sound more brilliant and more in tune. High E and above needs that you close just half hole with the right thumb. That avoids cracking between low and high octave, and the sound is brighter too. Differently from any transversal flute to that depends much less on air pressure and there is much less break between low register and high register. You are a talented young man and might easily learn the right fingerings with the table that usually comes with the recorder, or with any decent (and cheap) method, it is worth the time. There are several "secret" fingerings, to help in trills, quick passages, tuning, playing softer or brighter. Methods may teach the most common and necessary, a good teacher might teach trickier ones. All the best, I loved the Chinese flute.

[@vkmanna]

exellent! I am using all breating and blowings as on flute , too. gently. it' s not always easy but yes great challenge. thank you!

[@valeriesotiropoulos9720]

You are amazing thank you it is so much more beautiful the way you play it. Great.

[@leewmlee]

One of the best sounding recorder sounds I've heard! Thx for the tips :)

[@Chiinnature]

Thank you!!

[@Michajeru]

Thank you, I learned things from your excellent presentation.

[@abdelrhmanragab1620]

Awesome....this is so helpful :) thank you

[@starman2671]

Thanks, if you still make videos on recorders I will subscribe. You have a great teaching style.

[@CripDavis]

Informative, thank you.

[@Akhilparanoor]

Thank you, sir. Helped

[@antham8112]

Nice tips, thanks!

[@captebbtide]

Loves how he can make a cheap grade-school model and make it sound SO Chinese!

[@robertsparacin399]

What a great and helpful video!!!! Wow!!! I have played one by ear since childhood. My family did not want to hear music practice, so discouraged any type of instrument. One day, after constant whining, my mother worn down to cornflakes said "Here, take these books of Plaid Stamps and go buy yourself a #%&*@!! recorder in the nearby town!!!! So at twelve years old, I got on the bus by myself, took the one hour trip, and bought a wood recorder at the Plaid Stamp Center (Now a long gone Dinosaur from a distant age) , and then returned home with it ..ie The cat came back!!! (Maybe they were hoping I would get "lost" and not return??????) And on and off have played it for over sixty years....Now I play it at lakes and ponds when the sun goes down.. It does not HAVE to be pre made music... I do use study other peoples music as well... that is one type of hat to wear..But do not forget to take off that hat sometimes, and wear another hat... using what you have learned.. then let the music just come out of you, from deep inside, let the music guide itself thru you.. something much greater than what you alone can do.. and then..RIDE the wave!!! Let it take you, and fall into it.. People sometimes ask me to write it down for them.. but that, in this, is not what it is about. Take your flute... practice.. learn and play..but the real journey, for me at least.. is to ride the wave and dissolve into it moment.....What a great video this is... to help others discover the path... it is a WOW for sure. Robert Sparacin

[@louisecooper1001]

thank-you very help full and you made sence

[@mastanshaik5124]

Good explanation - Thanks

[@creatures77]

thanks for sharing!

[@artistrespondingoutside6406]

How inspiring, thank you.

[@Hanna1968]

I have been going the traverse way: playing recorder for several decades I am starting playing the flute now. (Classical and Dizi). It's quite easy to get a good sound out of the dizi, but classical flute sounds better in my ears. The sound has more room. But it might be that a expensive Dizi might sound as good as well.

[@oekiewoekie1]

Lovend iT and learned from iT, Thank you good sir.

[@recorderstart]

Thanks bro.

[@user-ie5mj7ld7i]

Nice!!!

[@Krisha991]

Super!

[@JoseGasparSP]

Great sound!! Very inspiring! Could you say what was that that music you played in the last part?

[@Chiinnature]

hahaha, thanks, it's more of a random tune I remembered, no name~

[@lordoftheflings]

how can i play recorder like a zen monk?

[@Taomania108]

I like your silent wow

[@Chiinnature]

LOL! That's a wow from the heart, not the mouth1 HAHAHAHA!

[@fuuuck]

Why am I crying?

[@rpwVideoInstruction]

LOL, you're a funny guy. Nice tutorial.

[@richreynoldsCIT]

wow! I'm going to get my recorder out of the garbage and my penny whistles too... Inspirational!

[@markvincentordiz]

pls give me the note..i love what you're playing

[@frannbug]

I really agree about young players eating their instruments. Not putting the recorder into your mouth is one of the first things I teach my students. Thank you for emphasising that! Your flute playing is much better than your recorder playing because it's in tune. The recorder requires different fingering to what you were playing unless you buy a special German fingering model (which this clearly was not - 'Made in Germany' could be either as they make both kinds). To play low F (descant) or B flat (treble) you need ALL your fingers except the right hand middle finger. High F you can drop the little finger of the right hand as well. Just plonking that index finger down on its own gives you something mid-way between two notes. Also, you might give some thought to ending notes a bit more cleanly. If you just let your breath trail off on the recorder the pitch goes right down. This might work as a sparingly used special expressive effect but if you keep doing it it sounds as though you don't know how to play in tune or finish your notes cleanly. Be careful with the note D (descant) / G (treble), played with the middle finger only of the left hand. The breath needs to be really well supported on that note to keep it in tune as there is a wide pitch variation on breath pressure on that note. I hope you find this information helpful. Keep practising!

[@Chiinnature]

Thanks~ This video was made quite awhile ago. My playing have improved and figured out a lot of issues. Basically this video was made just about when I first got these recorders too. So ya, not even practiced much, LOL! The alto there is made in Germany with Germany fingerings though.

[@ellipsesmemolalhappyellips9885]

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[@ABC-cd9qq]

frannbug fingering 😂

[@erin-sg9sj]

good

[@themuskokajonah3926]

Thanks so much! My basic, cheap recorder is now a PRO saxophone! Thanks!!!

[@c_farther5208]

Have you any experience with the Arabic wooden flute--vertically played?

[@Chiinnature]

+C_ Farther i have not played any arabic flute, but I am sure it is no different from playing a xiao tho

[@jumianigeria534]

I always say its not about how cheap or expensive it is. Its about who plays it

[@sayori3939]

Untill it's completely messed up and squeaks randomly on simple notes

[@stevewolfe3214]

Thanks much!!! I love to make my recorder sound like a Chinese flute. Always looking for good advice. Wished I had heard it earlier. In my travels I have learned some of this. Also please .. check out "team recorder' by Ms. Sarah for western recorder information. so much we learned as young .. makes the recorder sound terrible. As for Instruments: . The Yahama 20 series can easily be found for $6 USD The Yahama 300 series for about $16 USD .(I have both and it is very difficult to tell the difference) (the 300 is easier cleanable) and she would recommend a dream recorder mollenhauer with the plastic head and wood body. (as the sound gets lower, the recorder gets more expensive) As said here .. don't buy a wood one just yet. The plastic sounds pretty good, is difficult to tell the difference between wood (for beginners and intermediate) and the wood is expensive and is very easy to destroy. And the suzuki recorder workbook is a good start for reading western music but few if any eastern sounds.

[@stevewolfe3214]

ps. As you can see in this playing: 1. Use only the finger pressure to close the holes to the necessary amounts. no "ninja death grip" 2. I was so surprised at tone changes both in breath pressure and finger pressure. good playing!!

[@falcon2403]

Very helpful lesson. Something you could do is shorten the playing time.

[@bridgettemiller3552]

I've always wondered if you could play chinese music on a recorder

[@catfun8363]

Why does my recorder sound hard I mean like a low note And how did u do 3:53

[@rodrigodealencar323]

mad tonguing

[@Taomania108]

great intro vid!

[@Chiinnature]

Hope you learn something and turn into another Mak Jo Si soon!

[@c_farther5208]

Do you sell these instruments? Looks like you have a shoppe.

[@Chiinnature]

C_ Bazel Nope I don't sell these, i just do review. I have a taoist temple in Markham(Canada) but it's not for selling these things

[@thepianoplayer416]

A recorder is just about the cheapest instrument you can buy. A plastic one sounds very good but in a performance doesn't "look" proper. Aesthetically anything made with plastic looks cheap even with an electric violin. You would never find a Chinese flute made with plastic because it is cheaper for students to buy. Unless it is absolutely necessary, would pay a bit more for a wooden recorder. A while back got into a discussion with somebody about getting the cheapest electronic keyboard / electric piano on the market that has 88 touch-sensitive keys such as Casio or Yamaha or even a Williams Legato. 100 years ago the only option for a piano is an acoustic upright unless you have a big living room where you can put an acoustic grand. Unless you got it second hand, you were expected to pay a few thousand dollars. Nowadays you have the option of something less than $1000 with the sound and the keys that feel sufficiently like an acoustic to be playable.

[@sushislicer3742]

thepianoplayer416 harmonicas are even cheaper sometimes

[@paigemorales6962]

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