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Post by fluterocks on May 22, 2008 20:10:33 GMT
does anyone know of any descant recorder pieces of about grade 5-ish, that you would recommend? Or treble pieces (and a good study book, for learning additional notes) for grade 2+(i want to learn treble properly again, so some light stuff to start and a book to go through correct fingerings, it's so easy to slip into bad habits between C and F instruments...) with the aim of improving. I have an exceptionally long summer holiday this year (12 weeks, wow  , so I have plenty of time to fill... No one's posted on these boards for ages  |
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Post by anacrusis on May 22, 2008 20:26:54 GMT
For fingerings, you might be best with one of the charts you can find online - there is even a website in which you will find fingering charts for each make of recorder. (sounds mad, but I've had to make use of this: after five years with my beloved boxwood treble, I finally found out how to make top G be in tune  ;D) Try this site - it's in German but still user-friendly www.blockfloetengriffe.de/. I'm sorry I'm not going to be much use on the repertoire you want, except to give this bit of advice - if you want to carry on learning and not just doodle around at one level, you could buy many different pieces from the repertoire, because there will be movements within them which will be in reach early on, and you could then tackle the more tricky ones as you improve. This includes the collected Handel sonatas published by Faber - the fiercest movement in that is at diploma level, but my grade5 - ish pupil can play some of the other movements. Marcello's sonatas are good, and the Corelli op.V sonatas also have some manageable movements and some fiendish ones. I would suggest that if you can play a descant at grade 5, you don't need to look for grade 2 treble; your fingers can do the work, they just need re-programming. A good descant collection includes the Jakob van Eyck, "Der Fluyten Lust-Hof". I'm pretty rubbish at doing technical exercises, so can't really help with study books. I would suggest only playing treble pieces on your treble, and descant pieces on the descant, to try to train your brain into good habits. It took me a whole summer to drill the basics into my fingers, but persistence paid off; even now, with a diploma comfortably under my belt, and trying to rev up to the next one, I will sometimes switch fingerings accidentally  . |
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