Your First ALTO/TREBLE Recorder Lesson! | Team Recorder for Beginners

Welcome to your first alto/treble recorder lesson, suitable for complete beginners! We'll learn enough notes to play a whole song, and good technique to start you on the right track. All taught by a seasoned pro! Enjoy!

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00:00 Intro
00:41 How to hold the recorder and the holes
02:14 Blowing! and the note E
03:58 Tonguing!
05:16 the D
06:54 the C
07:38 Let’s practice all three notes
08:36 First song: Au clair de la lune
09:42 Feeling confident? Here are B A G
10:42 Au clair de la lune - whole song playajlong
12:10 Already experienced on soprano recorder? Here’s more notes!

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In this video I play on an A=440 alto recorder in kingwood by Yoav Ran.

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[peteringerslev]

I am 76 and am starting to learn the alto recorder that I lat played at school. Your video very easy to follow. Your positivity particularly encouraging rather than the dire tone of some tutors. Thanks. I will be following on after this first lesson. It feels like I can do this.

[Jules-zwiu]

Wow! My husband's and my treble recorders just arrived in the post today! We'll be going through this lesson together tomorrow ❤

[jhan]

Omaygash! This is such a great timing! I just impulsively bought a 2nd hand Alto recorders a few hours ago! Without knowing anything about the instrument.

Thank you!!

[DredgeUp]

Thanks for your clear & easy to follow introduction including how best to hold the alto, posture & breathing plus the notation, this will be very helpful & was just the guide I was looking for. Thanks again & have a great day!

[BigBearBloo]

Thank you Sarah! With your help I just did my first lesson on my new Yamaha YRA-312B III. (Your other videos helped me choose this recorder and the Sweet Pipes Alto method book!) I’m thrilled with the tone! 😊

[AF-mwgy]

You’re twisting my arm here Sarah. I suppose I’ll have to get an alto recorder now

[nataliagameson]

You should do first lessons for tenor, bass etc too :-) great to see this

[soheilaparvin]

Hi Sarah,
Please add some videos of Alto, some notes for songs. Thank you.

[evahelenehagavik]

Bought the alto recorder (my first ever recorder) a month ago and haven't actually taken the time to learn the notes haha, just been using a yt vid to learn the pirates of the caribbean theme instead. When I saw you had posted this I clicked very fast!

[jordang]

I've been wanting to take alto recorder lessons. I completely forgot about YouTube university! Thank you!
I took some lessons with the American Recorder association but that was over a year ago now.

[BouncyMissSally]

My school had a recorder marching band when I was little, we were good enough that we stood in for the army playing the national anthem at a remembrance event once. Anyway, we had drums and soprano recorders mostly, plus five tenors. Then one day I found a treble recorder while rummaging through my sister's stuff, there was a booklet with it so I taught myself the fingering and turned up with it to practice one day. I still love the treble recorder's tone, it's my favourite of them all.

[LindaVolpatti]

I have had an alto for a year and have out off staring. So happy to see this. Lease keep them coming. Thankyou

[kathleenrosenberg-mm]

I’ve had the Mollenhauer pearwood alto for several years and it still gives me goosebumps
the tone of baroque recorders
Thank you Sarah for presenting it

[saxrendell]

For people that are already experienced on soprano/other wind instruments in C, do you have any tips on how to practice getting the knack of re-learning all the finger positions? I have a variety of recorders that I love playing, and I play flute and sax as well, but the fingering in F is really tripping me up and making playing F recorders really frustrating! I really want to do it properly but so far I've been resorting to transposing the music instead of re-learning the notes lmao

[liessas]

Fun! Thank you 😄
I've played a few instruments among which soprano recorder, but alto and baroque fingering are new to me. Because I tend to enjoy lower sounds more (always wanted to move on to viola from violin too!), I had purchased a plastic aulos alto a while ago but hadn't wrapped my head around the notes in F. I'm taking this as my cue to figure it out ❤

[michaelcerkez]

We've had them around the house since the 1970's. This is going to sound strange, but I saw them playing recorders on Last of the Summer Wine. They, four of the actors, were playing Green Sleeves to be exact and it shoulder great.

[Irmatu]

I bought an alto recorder years ago based upon your videos but never got around to playing. Looks like I have a reason to dust it off again! 😊

[jalsiddharth]

Lets I will supplement my Aldo Bova book with your lessons. :D

[Fuzzycuffsqt]

Cool! I found a plastic Aulos Alto of in an old cabinet, and this has helped me clean up my self-taught technique a lot

[DBH]

HiSarah. Ive been watching your whistle tutorials. My you are adorable!.