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Recorder Ready: A Blueprint for Success
Getting Started in Your Classroom
Welcome and Course Outline (5:43)
Goals for Students - What Could They Learn? (12:59)
Reading on the Staff - Yes or No? (11:57)
Prepping the Recorder Before Giving to Students (6:21)
Where to Start: BAG, Low ED, or High CD (10:48)
Sanitizing, cleaning, and getting donated recorders (8:02)
Buying Recorders - Sizes, Brands, and How to Buy
Recorder Sizes and Types - What to Look For and Buy! (13:04)
Where and How to Buy Recorders - Sweet Pipes and West Music (16:13)
Brand Review - Yamaha (9:50)
Brand Review - Nuvo (15:08)
Brand Review - Aulos (8:12)
Brand Review - Hohner (6:40)
Brand Review - Peripole/Angel (10:05)
Resource Roundup - The Books, Resources, and Extras that You'll Want!
Recorder Fingering Charts - Soprano (8:42)
Resource: Sweet Pipes Books (9:34)
Resource: Windsongs Series (7:43)
Resource: Recorder Routes (10:12)
Resource: Recorder Express (Artie Almeida) (8:10)
Resource: Recorder Karate (8:34)
Resource: In the BAG and All Aboard the Recorder Express (Janet Day) (13:29)
Sequencing Lessons - From Basics to Brilliance
The First Day - What a sound! (20:57)
Warmups - Getting Class Started (6:35)
Note Progression and Alternate Fingerings (5:58)
BAG - Getting Started, Warmups, Basic Songs
Hot Cross Buns (How to Teach it THREE Ways) - BAG (10:22)
Hot Cross Fun (Janet Day) - BAG (14:19)
Hola BAG (Janet Day) - BAG (14:19)
Merrily We Roll Along/Mary Had a Little Lamb - BAG (7:43)
Mambo Mary's BAG (Janet Day) (10:22)
Recorder Razzle - BAG (7:33)
Mascot Song - BAG (8:00)
BAG - Lessons Based on Children's Literature
Z is for Moose - BAG (13:57)
Chicken Little and the Big Bad Wolf - BAG (options for Low ED or High CD) (18:07)
Catalina Magdalena... - BAG (options for Low ED or High CD) (14:27)
Recorder Play Alongs from YouTube (Review and Ideas) (7:36)
BAG - Lessons Based on Exploration and Improvisation
Ideas from Brigitte Warner (Orff-Schulwerk Applications for the Classroom) - "Are the kids laying down?" (11:43)
Poly Spots - Walking the Music (11:01)
Fishin' For a Melody (Improvisation & Centers) - BAG (options for Low ED or High CD) (12:16)
Jigsaw Recorder (Improvisation & Centers) - BAG (options for Low ED) (8:49)
Low E and Low D - Songs, Games, and Lesson Ideas
Shake Those Simmons Down - BAG ED (10:08)
Mother Doesn't Want a Dog - BAG ED (8:26)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - BAG ED F# (9:12)
Old McDonald Had a Farm - BAG ED (8:37)
It's Raining It's Pouring - AG E (10:34)
Jolly Old St. Nicholas (With Janet Day Option) - BAG ED (8:24)
High C, High D, and Beyond - Songs, Games, and Lesson Ideas
Flip, Flop, Five (Janet Day) - BAG CD (8:29)
Ode to Joy - BAG CD Low D (12:28)
Pizza Party - BAG CD (Options for Low ED and F#) (10:12)
Aura Lee - BAG CD (6:06)
When the Saints Go Marching In - BAG CD (6:07)
Scotland's Burning - BAG Low D High D (3:48)
William Tell Overture - BAG Low D High CD (8:16)
Amazing Grace - BAG Low ED High D (6:23)
Downloads and Extras
Visuals to Project for all Songs
Warmups - Rhythmic Notation (Simple)
Warmups - Rhythmic Notation (Multiple Notes Per Line)
Soprano Recorder Finger Charts
Jigsaw Recorder Resource
Fishing for a Melody Resource
PD Certificate & Questions
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Recorder Play Alongs from YouTube (Review and Ideas)
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