recorder - Teaching With Orff

Steps to Prep the Recorder

By Kate Bright | September 19, 2022 |

A student’s journey on the recorder must begin before they even touch an instrument. Kate Bright shares her strategy to ensure that all elements are in place. With proper preparation, your students will be making music on the first day they play!

Making It Work: Instrument Storage and Organization 2

By Drue Bullington | May 24, 2017 |

The Active Music and Movement Classroom: So Much Fun “in Store!” Drue M. Bullington Part 2 of a glimpse into one teacher’s answer to the challenges of having students manage the use and storage of a variety of instruments in an active elemental music and movement classroom. (Read Part 1 here) Un-tuned Percussion Storage: All…

Playing With Improvisation

By Lisa Odom | September 7, 2016 |

Playing With Improvisation 2, 4, 6, 8 – Recorder Version B Section 2, 4, 6, 8 – RECORDER Teaching Process: Sing song and ask students to label form. (abca) Sing the first 4-beat motive, the a motive. Students echo the a motive. Students sing the a motives and you sing the b & c motives.…

Recorder Lesson: Que Llueva

By Darla Meek | April 6, 2016 |

In this excerpt from Journey Around the Globe with Recorder!*, Darla Meek shares her lesson for soprano recorder, Que Llueva. This lesson includes a game, an Orff arrangement, and a contrasting section composed by the students. *Copyright © 2016 by Sweet Pipes. Used with permission. Journey Around the Globe With Recorder! is a series of 24 lessons for…

Making It Work: Recorder Storage

By LeslieAnne Bird | April 6, 2016 |

I am the type of teacher who uses recorders with my students throughout the year. Sometimes we use the recorders every lesson for several classes in a row; sometimes we don’t. Because I use my recorders in this way, asking the children to take them home and bring them back each class does not work…

Recorder Lesson: Green Sally Up

By Alan Purdum | March 9, 2016 |

In this excerpt from Recorder: A Creative Sequence*, Alan Purdum shares his lesson for soprano recorder, Green Sally Up. Students use low D and E for playing and improvising, and experience the jazz elements in a children’s hand clapping game. *Copyright © 2014 by Cedar River Music. Used with permission. The third volume in the Creative Sequence series,…