Recorder Songs & Resources

Recorder Songs - by Note

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.
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I recommend this recorder:

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15 slides

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