Recorder Songs & Resources

Recorder Songs - by Note

Reasons to Use Recorders*

  • A melody instrument – with the ability to sustain tones. Many of the other Orff instruments don’t hold those half and whole notes.
  • Helpful for those students who can’t match pitch or are uncoordinated with mallets.
  • A real instrument with a long history and great repertoire
  • Helpful for teachers to use – to save your voice and for male teachers to demonstrate in the students’ vocal range
  • Portable and personal (everyone has one in their hands)
  • Cheap – for those who want to buy them
  • Washable – for those who want to borrow a class recorder. I put a piece of electrical tape on the class recorder with the student’s name. That recorder is used the whole year by that one student. At the end of the year, I take those recorders home and put in them in the top rack of the dishwasher.
    *(source)

Visuals / Handouts / Worksheets / Assessments

(See downloads at bottom of page. Each number has a corresponding button.)

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recorder fingerings staff-bn
recorder fingering cards-bn
Recorder fingering flash cards1-bn
Recorder fingering flash cards2-bn

2

Recorder Pattern Visuals1-bn
Recorder Pattern Visuals2-bn
Recorder Pattern Visuals3-bn
Recorder Pattern Visuals4-bn
Recorder Pattern Visuals5-bn
Recorder Patterns Handout-bn

3

4

Recorder BAG Assessment1-bn
Recorder BAG Assessment2-bn
Down By the Station GAB rubric-bn
Recorder-Rubric-EGAB-BAGE-bn
Recorder-Fingering-Song-Performance-Rubric-DGAB-bn
Recorder-Fingering-Song-Performance-Rubric-DEGABCD-bn
Recorder-Fingering-Song-Performance-Rubric-DEGABD-bn

PowerPoint

(See download at bottom of page.)

15 slides

Books

See also

YouTube

  1. Fingering Visuals
  2. Printable & Digital Melody Pattern Visuals, Handout, Composition Worksheet
  3. Lesson Ideas & Printables: Parts of the Recorder, Word Search, Recorder Printable, Staff Printables, Parent Note
  4. 2 Written Assessments – GAB & DEGABCD / Performance rubrics – GAB, EGAB, DGAB, GABCD’, DEGABD’, DEGABCD’
  5. Recorders are Coming – PPT
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