Playing recorder right from scratch: A method book for all ages

Lena Eckhoff, Thomas Balinger
Playing recorder right from scratch

Learning to play the recorder is easy and fun!
Starting from scratch you’ll learn everything you need to know to become a competent recorder player.
You’ll be playing your first songs in just a few hours, effortlessly mastering to read music along the way. And with more than 45 great songs to play, there’s not a minute of boredom in sight!
For reference, there’s an appendix of musical terms at the end of the book, including tips on practicing, basic recorder care and maintenance and a fingering chart for soprano recorder (baroque fingering).

Songs:

- A-tisket, a-tasket
- Amazing Grace
- Aura Lee
- Baa, baa, black sheep
- Banks of the Ohio
- Barcarolle
- Bingo
- Bluebird, bluebird- Brahms’ Lullaby
- Camptown races
- Clementine
- Down by the riverside
- Down by the station
- Down in the valley
- Good King Wenceslas
- Good morning
- Good night, ladies
- Happy birthday
- Head, shoulders, knees and toes
- Hickory, dickory dock
- Humpty Dumpty
- Jolly good fellow
- Lavender’s blue
- Lazy Mary
- London Bridge is falling down
- Merrily we roll along
- Minuet
- Ode to joy
- Old MacDonald had a farm
- On top of Old Smokey
- One, two, three, four, five
- Over in the meadow
- Pease porridge hot
- Pomp and circumstance
- Punchinello
- Skip to my Lou
- Sur le pont d’Avignon
- Sweetly sings the donkey
- Teddy bear
- Ten in a bed
- There was a crooked man
- This old man
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star
- Up on the housetop
- What shall we do with the drunken sailor
- When the saints go marchin’ in