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Recorder Fun! Teach Yourself the Easy Way!

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I bought 4 recorder seft-study books and I regard this as the best recorder book. There are a lot of good songs to practice.

A really easy introduction to playing songs that sound good right from the start. Painless way to learn to read music. The accompanying CD works well with separable recorder and accompaniment.

This book quickly gets the reader to play simple but imprssive enough music to get this person confident in one's abilities and interested enough to continue.
It also does a good job in easing a beginner into reading basic musical notation by starting with a more simply and intuitive version of it.
My only complaint is that the difficulty of the exersize passages picks up very sharply about half way through with no excersizes suggested that will get one's skill up to par. Playing earlier passages over and over simply does not do it. As a result, I had to look for the excersize information elsewhere.

"Recorder Fun" contains an excellent choice of songs. The CD is of very good quality and fun to play along with. I used this book and CD to teach 2 of my grandchildren to play the recorder. They finished the book and we gave a final concert for our extended family! These resources teach you a lot about the language of music as well as how to play the recorder. I just wish they would publish one like it for alto/bass recorders.

While this is a great beginner book it is not a good choice for an Alto recorder. The fingering and key of music is different than the saprano and tenor. Wish I had known this little tidbit before I bought it.Otherwise the choice of songs and teaching method of reading notes, rests and rythm is great.

This book is good for getting use to a few notes. I was hoping to see scales in this book which is very important if a player wants to develop more as far as theory is concerned. I also noticed that the music stayed mostly in the key of C. This could be a problem since a lot of Celtic recorder music uses other key signatures like G. This booklet does include a fingering chart for all the notes you will probably not use in the included songs but will use later on with other music.

This is a great book for the beginning player. I haven't played music for many years, and have never been able to sight read music. This book has helped me a lot in learning to read. The CD is also a great help to those who play by ear.

This is a great book of songs and tunes. Right from the start it has a CD you can play along with, so even when you are only playing one note, you have some good background music to accompany you. This is a great motivator for 5-6 year old children.

I bought this for my 8 yr old daughter last Christmas. She has done well with it, using it without help. With no prior training, she has progressed to the ability to play "O, Come All Ye Faithful." this Christmas.

This book was purchased for me back when I was being taught to play the recorder in school (around third grade). I loved it back then, and I love it now--it is at the right level for a child of that age, and the songs are decent and varied. The CD is excellent as it helps you to learn to play with someone else and it makes you feel like a real musician.

I am just writing this review now because I recently passed along this book to my 9 year old niece and she is having just as much fun with it as I did. It provides hours of educational entertainment.