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Jan. 11th, 2023 12:01 pmI haven't been able to do much recorder practice for the past week, due to being busy after work with other things. But now things are (hopefully) less busy, so I had time to play last night. And now that's once again basically the only thing I want to do today. Alas, I am at work, where playing a recorder is inappropriate.
I'm still very limited in what I'm able to play and nothing sounds particularly good yet, but nothing sounds really terrible either. (This is the advantage in choosing to learn the alto recorder first, rather than the soprano.) I'm using the Hugh Orr recorder method, which I picked because the exercises in it are based on medieval/renaissance/baroque recorder music, rather than teaching you to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and I think that was a really good decision. It's not as though the exercises I'm doing are much more complicated than that, but they don't give me flashbacks to trying to learn the violin in 3rd grade and I don't feel embarrassed about playing them over and over. I only know about six notes so far, but you can do a surprising amount with just six notes, and it means I have more brainspace to concentrate on technique.
I've told myself that when I work through the first volume of the teaching method (it comes in two parts) I get a prize, but I haven't decided what it's going to be yet. It's likely to be a book of slightly more advanced repertoire to supplement the second half of the teaching method, but I'm also stupidly tempted to buy a sopranino recorder as well. (It's in the same key and uses the same fingerings as the alto, and the Aulos plastic sopranino is very affordable. This doesn't make the impulse any less silly.)
I'm still very limited in what I'm able to play and nothing sounds particularly good yet, but nothing sounds really terrible either. (This is the advantage in choosing to learn the alto recorder first, rather than the soprano.) I'm using the Hugh Orr recorder method, which I picked because the exercises in it are based on medieval/renaissance/baroque recorder music, rather than teaching you to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and I think that was a really good decision. It's not as though the exercises I'm doing are much more complicated than that, but they don't give me flashbacks to trying to learn the violin in 3rd grade and I don't feel embarrassed about playing them over and over. I only know about six notes so far, but you can do a surprising amount with just six notes, and it means I have more brainspace to concentrate on technique.
I've told myself that when I work through the first volume of the teaching method (it comes in two parts) I get a prize, but I haven't decided what it's going to be yet. It's likely to be a book of slightly more advanced repertoire to supplement the second half of the teaching method, but I'm also stupidly tempted to buy a sopranino recorder as well. (It's in the same key and uses the same fingerings as the alto, and the Aulos plastic sopranino is very affordable. This doesn't make the impulse any less silly.)
