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Songs with these notes in the melody or harmony parts
DEF#GABC’
DEF#GABC’D’
DEF#GABD’
DEF#AB
DEG
DEGA
DEA
DF#GAB
DF#GABC'
DF#GABCD'
EB
EF#GABC’D’
GAC'
GACD'
GBD'
ABC'
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)
My favorite recorder
I recommend this recorder:
Visuals / Handouts / Worksheets / Assessments
(See downloads at bottom of page. Each number has a corresponding button.)
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2
3
4
PowerPoint
(See download at bottom of page.)
15 slides
Books
YouTube
See also
- Fingering Visuals
- Printable & Digital Melody Pattern Visuals, Handout, Composition Worksheet
- Lesson Ideas & Printables: Parts of the Recorder, Word Search, Recorder Printable, Staff Printables, Parent Note
- 2 Written Assessments – GAB & DEGABCD / Performance rubrics – GAB, EGAB, DGAB, GABCD’, DEGABD’, DEGABCD’
- Recorders are Coming – PPT
