Hi lovely people! Wow, my comments at the end have certainly sparked a discussion! I'm seeing a few of the same points popping up again and again, so I'll just comment on that here: - I'm not suggesting boycotting, replacing, or throwing out music by white male composers. Check out pretty much any of of my other videos and you'll see them amply represented. - I'm also not suggesting we throw out historical music.. again check out the hundreds of videos I've made on the topic! - my comments are part of a much wider conversation currently happening in the classical music world. They have context and there is a need for them. If you'd like to know more, there are loads of articles out there for you to read. - "I've never seen this as a problem" - that's wonderful for you! It's worth noting your experience may not be universal. Try and understand this and acknowledge another's experience rather than discounting it. - Important one: Why assume music composers by female composers/composers of colour will be inferior to pieces written by white males? I'm seeing this one cropping up a lot. If you are making this point, please ask yourself..... why? - Lastly, females and people of colour have been making music since... music existed. And INCREDIBLE music at that! I firmly believe that widening our curriculum to teach this too will benefit our musical practice. It's about making our music experience better, not shutting people out. Okay those were a few thoughts, byeee. As I said, there are many others writing on this subject more eloquently than I have. Seriously go and research it! 😘

@Djam-gh5ko

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. No need to boycott. Or throw things out. But just see that their is more ways to notate and learn music. And so much more music to love. Diversity is a good thing and it makes us all stronger. All of us.

@fredericomaciel953

3 жыл бұрын

I was already a fan of the musician Sarah Jeffery, now I am also a huge fan of the person Sarah. It means a lot to use your platform to stand for such important issues as diversity in the music curriculum. Thank you, thank you. Much love from Brazil.

@MAMelby

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the comments at the end of this video. This has been on my mind for ages as well. One of my acquaintances is quite active in advocating for diversity in representation as well as encouraging programs and orchestras to include more pieces from living composers. Feel free to look him up. :) instagram.com/jonsilpayamanant/

@ninjaaron

3 жыл бұрын

I often find my response to rhetoric about diversity and inclusions is somewhat skeptical, but after seeing the video, there was nothing objectionable about what you said whatsoever. It was all positivity and about trying to expose students to a wider range of music and artists, which is great! I would say, however, that when playing classical music on an instrument where most of the standard repertiore is from the baroque and renaissance periods in Europe, it's kind of predictable that the composers are going to be somewhat homogeneous. I guess the situation is different if you're studying saxophone or sitar---or simply focusing more on *contemporary* repertoire.

@Eltanin25

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I never thought that women couldn't be composers or that they would be worse than the men. I suppose it has something to do with the city of my origin. I am from Brno, Czech Republic and on the Central Cemetry in my city, there is a section dedicated to well known personalities. It is customary for citizens to visit not only graves of their families but also people in these celebrity section (especially on the 2nd November). So from my youth I have been aware of two famous (or at least for Czech people famous) composers burried there - Leoš Janáček and Vítězslava Kaprálová. The second one was a woman, talented composer who died at the age 25. The city commemorates both of them on big anniversaries of their birth, death, etc..., so does the city's Philharmony, so I always aware of a fate of talented young girl who died of tuberculosis before she could show the world (or at least Czech Republic) her whole talent. So the impression I was growing with was: "There's more male composers than female composers which is a pity and I hope it will change one day." So maybe that's the way forward. Educate the next generation on the few existing female composers, (or non white composers) and the next ones will feel inspired and show themselves. Therefore I agree with you. :-)

Dear Sarah, I'm from Bangalore, Karnataka, India. You are my inspiration and distant online tutor. Although I love music, I haven't still mastered to play any instruments. However, finally now I have put my Yamaha plastic recorder to use by watching your videos. I only wish to become like you one day, and play the instrument for His glory and to mesmerise people with my music. All your videos are beackon of light to understand, learn and play. Thank you so much for all your free tutorials on you channel! May you be blessed by the Lord Almighty for your contribution to the society! Please continue release video lessons for a beginner like me to move up the grades.

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

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@Jerome616

3 жыл бұрын

This was so sweet!

I was like "that grade 8 piece doesn't look hard" then the 16th notes happened....

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

I know right 😂

@l.b.5483

3 жыл бұрын

bar 135+... my teacher: "don't think, don't think!!! Just play it!"

Growing up I was musically talented, but being the fifth of six children, I just didn’t have access to music lessons outside of school for financial reasons. My oldest sister learned organ up to grade 8, so we had a lot of music books around the house and I taught myself the basics of reading music using those. Up until recently, I’d always thought I lost out by not having official lessons, but lately I’ve been feeling more and more thankful that I was self-taught. I know I was very lucky to have musical resources around me to teach myself from, as most self-taught people don’t have that privilege, but I’m really glad I have been able to learn at my own pace without the biases and pressure that come with an official music education. Thank you Sarah for this video, and especially for the ending. HECK YES TO MORE DIVERSITY IN MUSIC.

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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"Classical musicians playing jazz" sent me 😂💀💀💀 Some of these pieces are seriously difficult - great work! edit: also great message at the end. Definitely need updated and more diverse rep!!

@intarc0giotto

3 жыл бұрын

aaaw Cuty McSexy is here as well 😍😍😍

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

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I guess I'm going to swim upstream a little here but I like that historical music is kept alive in the classrooms. If we don't keep teaching this music it may fade away and be forgotten over time, much like the old folk music here in the U.S. A lot people these days have never even heard that music.

@AnnBurgess00

3 жыл бұрын

I 100% agree with you! I never even clocked the fact that composers were all white men as I grew up as being a bar to my ability to compose. My teachers set me composition assignments - I did them. I knew that in previous eras women had been restricted - but that was history! And as for our repertoire favouring composers of the culture that represents our location, isn’t that right and proper? Why should we turn our backs on the heritage that distinguishes us from every other part of the world as though it’s not something to be proud of and delighted by? I would be very disappointed if I went to Africa or South America and found they were playing the same music I could hear at home and that there was nothing distinctive and new to discover. I don’t want to find the same, homogenised, bland mixture coming from every part of the world. Or is it only Europe that should do this? Please let’s not start applying critical race theory to music. Let’s only look at the music itself and give airtime to anything we produce today that is excellent. And let’s be conscious of the danger of losing what has been excellent in the past from our own culture at the same time, because those are the stepping stones that led to what we have today. In a time when it has become fashionable to destroy our heritage, we need to defend it. But I don’t think Sarah played anything that broke with that today. The grade 7 piece was jazz, which is part of Western culture, after all. What I’d hate to see is a syllabus where every culture of the world was represented in equal measure.

@j-marie4006

3 жыл бұрын

@@AnnBurgess00 I agree with your premise that you would not like to go to another part of the world and find they are playing the very same music you can hear at home. When I go to a different region I want to hear the music that is unique to that culture. We can play and learn any music we want to but the music itself represents a region and an era of time...it's part of history so let's not homogenize everything. Women can compose now and that's what's important. Like you, I never was thinking about the fact that composers were all men. I was just loving the music.

@hemiola07

3 жыл бұрын

Amen!!!!!!! Such “sensitivities” are taught rather than innate, as I have learned both in college and as a tutor in my area. We don’t need to constantly apologize for the past, since we cannot erase or fix it; rather, we accept it, learn from our mistakes, and move on. I totally agree about folk songs and other old people music not being known in the US; nowadays, I am so done with the constant serenade of Baby Shark everywhere I go and wish children would know the folk songs, 50s songs, and Broadway songs I knew as a child. If one word is offensive and blatantly so, we can change it to some G rated word like “dingbat”; this is what my mom who homeschooled us told us to do when we read something like Mark Twain and a racial slur came up. Mom would use it as a discussion point, stating that this is a bad word, people used to talk that way, it is wrong, we don’t talk that way anymore, and to replace the word with a more innocent word rather than throw the baby out with the bath water and not allow us to read a classic staple of literature. As to historical music, we must remember that, while many people are attempting to evolve recorder into a modern instrument, we must remember that, unlike the conventional modern instruments like violin, piano, flute, and even classical guitar, the recorder died out after the Baroque due to changing tastes, aesthetics, and the need for larger concert halls ... only revived in the last century for the sake of playing historical music on original instruments. Because of this, the recorder lacks the full spectrum of classical music repertoire (Classic Era and Romantic included) that most instruments have, and while countless contemporary works exist, again, we cannot reverse the past, and hence it appears that most historical recorder works were written by white European men. Although women did truly compose in the Baroque, including the sisters of the flute-obsessed Frederick the Great (with one playing the flute in public, which was taboo at the time), many of these works that I have discovered cannot successfully be adapted to recorder, and furthermore, we will never know how much music was written by women at the time because most of it was not published. As time progresses, however, more and more of these works are indeed being found, but if a certain historical work by a woman cannot fit the recorder, then it is a moot point to adapt it for recorder. Which leads me to another aspect in the recorder world ... As a young pre-conservatory violinist and classical guitarist, I came to recorder primarily because I loved Baroque music and wanted to do more, plus have loved to study musicology since I was a homeschooled teen. I had been turned off to contemporary and avant-garde repertoire in my teens when a certain violin teacher attempted to prematurely expose me to it, and still do not care for it (and that is my preference, so please do not attack me) ... and came to recorder for the historical side. Three years ago, my recorder teacher who was obsessed with avant-garde music aggressively attempted to shove it down my throat, and when I politely declined, he persisted more aggressively to the point I got totally turned off forever. This repertoire is not exactly child or teen-friendly in many cases, so why to mandate it early on? In conservatory programs, all historical instrumentalists outside of recorder are not required to learn contemporary music, and many recorder players I have known have not only brought this to my attention, but also expressed desire for people and conservatories to develop programs for specifically studying recorder as a historical instrument. If someone wishes to pursue this path, why mandate the contemporary stuff? I strongly hence believe that there should be two distinct programs of recorder study: Recorder as a historical instrument, and recorder as a modern instrument. This would be a worthy approach and allow recorder to flourish as a historical instrument as well. Let us find balance in everything, which is essential for keeping culture and individuality alive today ... :)

@j-marie4006

3 жыл бұрын

@@hemiola07 Wow. In the beginning I thought you were a college instructor of music history and appreciation as your knowledge is so vast. I am impressed that you know exactly what you like and that you stick to it. I admit that what first brought me to the recorder was the idea that it would be an easy instrument on which to learn music but now it has also brought me the desire to learn Baroque, Medieval and Renaissance music. I would like to keep historical music both pure and available for generations to come. Your idea of two separate programs is very worthy of consideration.

@hemiola07

3 жыл бұрын

j. Marie Thank you so much for your kind words. I may be no professor, but I am a college graduate with a big passion for historical musicology, history, theology, literature, and more. Thanks to my mom’s ultimate self-sacrifice to homeschool me and provide me with the ultimate classical education that she herself wished she had, I not only developed a solid knowledge base, but also developed specialized interests and a lifelong love of learning. In fact, following a cyber bullying incident two years ago at the hands of an individual posing as a history expert but was anything but, I decided to resume reading books by historians and settled on Louis XIV for a topic. Imagine my surprise as a Catholic when I discovered that The Sun King himself had a major and genuine conversion of heart at the end of his life ... all due to one special woman who later became his wife in secret. I was so touched that I wanted to learn more, and before I knew it, I was plunged into full fledged research, learning French, and more. Someday, I hope to write a book, but for now, I keep plugging forward with both my research and music, working my day jobs, and always seeking to educate the public about good culture ... as well as advocating for its preservation and a return to true knowledge vs. propaganda. But always in a gentle and rational way ... Let us all work together towards that goal so that future generations will love and appreciate culture!

Good to know that while practising in quarantine I'm in like 6.5 on the soprano and maybe a 5 in the alto I bought last year (as I already play the traverse flute). Still, I wouldn't have gotten that far without your videos... As an orchestra kid this year has been quite lonely and I almost lost my motivation to play alone but your videos (specially the play with me ones) have helped me a lot. Thank you! And it's always a pleasure for me to hear you play

@frogmouth

3 жыл бұрын

Don't lose heart! Good practising🧡

As an adult newbie on the recorder, I love watching these videos. So inspiring!

Nice! And totally agreed on diversity in music. It could only encourage more participation in music and more new music.

@joelg1290

3 жыл бұрын

Hello and now bye

I prefer the simpler/easier music but your playing is just mind blowing.

I was meant to do my Grade 6 in March :'( but it got cancelled 2 days beforehand because that's when we went into lockdown. to be honest I've not practiced or improved much since then, and i'm really annoyed at myself when i think i could have been making so much progress to my Grade 7, but i'm just so exhausted by the world at the moment. When we can have exams again, I'll get my Grade 6. It might take me longer than I thought, but I think that's okay right now!

@honeychurchgipsy6

3 жыл бұрын

Liz H - don't be discouraged - play for enjoyment until you can take your exam - you will be improving without really trying. I know what you mean about the lockdown - I have a chronic pain condition and other health issues - plus age - that make me extra vulnerable to Covid 19. I didn't go out much before - but this isolation has made me pretty low too. I can't imagine what it must be like for a young person so used to being out and about with friends, to be stuck at home!! Good news is - unless the new govt. guidelines forbid travel within the UK - we are off for 3 nights camping (We have a folding Dandy camper) in lovely Dartmoor next week - can't wait!!!

@blauespony1013

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you'll be able to enjoy making music and practicing in a bit again. Lets hope for better times when we can all go out again. Until then let us celebrate life as much as possible with the means we are given. For me that means making music

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

Argh how frustrating for you! I completely understand, the world is exhausting right now... but it's fine to have a break! Music is a lifelong journey, and you will get to the next grade, and the next. Big hug and I believe in you!

@lizh8041

3 жыл бұрын

@@Team_Recorder Thanks Sarah, what a beautiful reply

Love that the first movement of Sammartini is still in the grade 8 syllabus. I learnt it for my exam almost 20 years ago! Third movement is my favourite though 😄

What a great resource for us to get new ideas for repertoire. Thank you Sarah! Your enthusiasm and sense of fun are much appreciated!

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Hey, you should review dumbMojo's description of why recorder is easy.

Great! This is kind of nostalgic for me, because I’ve been playing the recorder for almost seven years now, and I recently did my Grade 5. You’re amaZhang!!

Not a recorder player, but love your channel!! I’m currently being trained classically as a singer and I’ve never been graded because I entered the music game seriously when I was about 14. I had been playing for fun before that but yeah. I’m now 18 in three months and just drove 4.30hrs there and the same back with my dad for a university audition to do opera for a Bmus (bachelor or music) degree. Having not been graded and only been in lessons since September of 2018. And proper classical training for under a year. So these videos are super interesting to me lol. Thank you 😊.

Thank you Sarah! It was nice to watch you play through these pieces.

A pleasure to watch as always Sarah, thank you

Very thoroughly thought through Sarah. Yes, many more people other than 'Classical male names' should be encouraged in repertoire where appropriate. Girls need to be supported and encouraged in their musical abilities and be inspired by others representative of themselves.

WOOOOWW !! Great job! I really liked this video and the music you chose. Thank you!

Back on the alto recorder and found your channel... darn it you were on fire playing that piece of a concert! Loved it!

We dont get to see Sarah flex her chops like this too often. Amazing.

It's amazing!! 😍 I watch your videos and enjoy! Thank you for the opportunity to learn to play the recorder! 🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️

I did Royal Conservatory of Music (Canada) for Piano, Graded 1 to 8, and they always had to play 4 pieces, first one is from a baroque list, the next list is classical or romantic, then contemporary list, and finally an étude. I think the recorder syllabus is similarly organized for diversity of repertoire, but don't know about diversity of composers.

thanks for the introduction to the exam syllabus for recorder. Been looking for opportunity to have a look.

I'm currently practicing the prelude in D minor (bwv 935) of Bach in soprano recorder, I can't wait to improve my technique. Thank you for all what you do!

I feel so bad because my poor recorder and self method book has been sitting in a part of my closet for some time. My violin and keyboard had been hogging up all the fun! I think it’s time I take up that Yamaha recorder and give it some commitment too! I’ve recently been loving baroque becuase of my music appreciation class and I’ve been hearing recorder all over the place! This video really inspired me to play recorder again! Thank you for the quality content and I hope to see more! Recorder gang! 🤗

I watched this to get an idea of the grade system, and to enjoy your excellent performances on the recorder. Glad that you did a jazz piece. I agree with your comments regarding diversity.

The sound is so piercing and pure. Wow!

The Sammartini Concerte was sooo beautiful😍😍 i wanna play this at my recorder competition🥺❤️

Impressive, especially the Grade 8 piece. I don't think the composer though, expected the performer to breathe anywhere!! I especially liked when you reprised the A section from the Da Capo, the interesting and colourful ornamentation that was added.

Wow wow wow! That last piece! I’m in awe! That’s goals... I have no idea where I would fit in the grading system, dunno if even grade 1?!?! but you have inspired me with what to aim for... best get practicing! 😊👌

Hey! Nice plug! Can't belive I didn't see this! Love the video btw! Can't wait till we get to do our little project!

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

Yes me too! 😄😄

@flutechannel

3 жыл бұрын

@@Team_Recorder hope all the concerts went great!

Wonderful performance Sarah, so lovely and fluent! I connected the most to the Optometrist with the Dream Alto, what a great tone! Maybe because I need glasses... :) Cheers and happy musical winter!

Some nice pre-19th century pieces and nice playing. A relaxing afternoon hearing a nice recorder performance than a piano beginner playing "Chopsticks" or a violin student trying to 'slaughter a chicken' with a bow. Very enjoying music... When it comes to jumps, especially high notes, between a piano, violin & recorder, a violin is the hardest since you need to shift position and press the right spots to get the right notes. Playing high notes on a piano you just move the whole hand over and the fingering is exactly the same. A recorder you have only so many holes. The difficulty is controlling your breath to give a good sound.

Absolutely loved this video! Absolutely agree with you about representation! Speaking of which... I'm from South Africa and there is a very very famous song here by a band called Mango Groove called Special Star, the intro and many parts of the song involve a traditional black south african folk style penny whistle piece, I would LOVE to hear your interpretation of it on recorder!!!

@joshuacoppersmith

3 жыл бұрын

I was trying to follow along (well, up to a certain grade that will be unmentioned) on the penny whistle. I will absolutely find Special Star and listen to it. After all, let's face it, the recorder is just a wood penny whistle with the holes drilled in the wrong places. :)

@lloydwinfield544

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuacoppersmith "a wood penny whistle with the holes drilled in the wrong places. :)" This made me laugh. Thank you.

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

I'll check it out! ❤️

You are a great inspiration for me and I share your kind of extraordinary recorder LOVING. Thank you very much for all the nice KZreads you have made😍😍

I haven't touched my recorder in 2 years even tho I played it for 7 years bevor that. You really make me want to pick them back up and start doing my grades! Loved it bevor, only stopped 'cause I got mocked.

Thank you so much for this video. I'm self-taught and it was hard for me to understand what level of skills I have. Now it's clearer

Well done Sarah .A most informative programme . I am a retired music teacher and arranged over two thousand of my own pieces for ensemble with piano accomp .It was such fun ! However , discarded the lot after my retirement . It was sad because I grew attached to a number of them . Your performances are delightful !!

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

Wow that's amazing! 2000 pieces, what a great body of work!

@jamesdownham5035

3 жыл бұрын

@@Team_Recorder Yes Sarah .I certainly kept my ensemble groups busy ! Thank you for your response . Suggestion ; You perform beautifully .How about performing your pieces in a much larger room . The nuances of your music is lost because of little or no reverb . How lucky your pupils are to be taught by you !

Why are the notes in the grade 1 piece already so high? I'm so bad at playing high notes......:(

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

I’m reading from an IMSLP score instead of the syllabus version, so I have the feeling the grade 1 version could be transposed lower!

@mikedonnamarienorton7464

3 жыл бұрын

I really feel that the quality of your recorder has a lot to do with playing in the higher register. My plastic alto aulos couldn’t reach high G, but I have no problem with it on my wooden Mollenhauer!

@murdermcmurderface

3 жыл бұрын

Donna Marie Norton So True!

@hannahkleinnibbelink5390

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikedonnamarienorton7464 I play on THE Yamaha plastic student recorder (the one every single person has) 😅

I still in recorder preschool, but with your encouragement I may get to kindergarten someday.. or hopefully beyond !!

Grade 8 started so "how can this be grade 8?? " then it just rolled into it

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

I knoooooooow

@thpeti

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Challenging!

You are awesome ❤ Sadly I can not find a recorder teacher in my area but I’m learning on my own, your videos are lovely…such a beautiful instrument.

In my teens I played in a recorder consort, usually playing bass or treble or soprano. I enjoyed it immensely. After a few years the conductor emigrated to Spain and the local authority didn't replace her at the Saturday morning music school so the recorder consort closed. I have barely played recorders since, and that was 40 years ago. I still have the recorders though, apart from the bass which wasn't mine. Oh and when did the names change? They were soprano, descant, treble, tenor and bass when I played recorders.

Your playing is so beautiful!!

I learned by ear the two solo parts that were played on recorder on the tape I learned from of Haydn's Lirenkoncert #1. What grade would you say that concerto is? I found the sheet music for it in the music library at the University of Iowa some years back and was shocked at how "hard" it looked. I'm not sure if I'd have tried to learn it if I'd only had the sheet music! FTR, it wasn't until I heard a flute/oboe version that I was able to realize there were points in the concerto that I was playing both parts, lol.

more female composer more composer of colour more diversity PROPS TO YOU AAAAA LOVE YOU SARAHHH 😍😍😍

@pjr-asian-art-songs

3 жыл бұрын

I'm all for diversity, don't get me wrong, but in order for coloured female composers to appear in the syllabus, they have to exist in the first place. How many coloured female composers can you name and how many compose for recorder?

@renalazuardi3512

3 жыл бұрын

@@pjr-asian-art-songs LOL point taken, it's not the most.. feminine occupation out there... or the most common for the matter. Sad.

@brattingprincess

3 жыл бұрын

PJR76 / Big Phil Right?!?! I realized I know nothing about Korean traditional music and arts meanwhile I played 20 years on a western classical instrument. We need to keep decolonizing everything!

@pjr-asian-art-songs

3 жыл бұрын

@@brattingprincess Hi Diana, good luck with learning about Korean traditional music and arts. I assume you're Korean (otherwise why mention it). I'm not entirely sure what decolonization has got to do with this particular subject. Perhaps you'd like to elaborate a little.

@brattingprincess

3 жыл бұрын

PJR76 / Big Phil The erasure of non-white people the fact that the term "classical music" ignores the existence of Asia Africa and the Americas. Why we put cultural value in WESTERN classical music traditions when it just happens to be from a particular region. These things are all examples of the manifestation of white supremacy.

I loved the video! And I totally agree with you

YESS. I’ve wanted to see this.

I heard once that Waldorf education uses stories mixed with music lessons as their teaching method for the pentatonic recorder in the first grades, than they move on to Baroque in the other early grades later, they will still use stories for teaching - I bet the story progresses as they go into the Baroque . The idea of using stories as a teaching method, especially for music, is very inspiring to me for some reason.

You are so very great playing the recorder! Greetings Sarah!

Amazing!! Thank you 😁

That was really interesting to listen to. I've been playing recorder for a long time but never really knew what level I was at. I'm sure I could manage Grade 6 fairly well but now I want to find that Grade 8 piece and learn that.

@honeychurchgipsy6

3 жыл бұрын

RaraCygno - I have some old ABRSM books grades 4 and 5 for soprano but a lot of it can be played on either instrument if you transpose it. I reckon I could pass the grade 4 tomorrow, maybe the grade 5. I can play that first and second parts of the Sammartini (the grade 8) and disagree that it is not a particularly challenging concerto - the second movement is easy and beautiful - but the final movement is a killer!!

I’m level -5 I play the wooden thing with strings

@hollyzhang1418

3 жыл бұрын

Violin? Viola? Cello? Harp? lute? oud? mandolin? guitar? Double bass? Banjo? BAHAHAHAHHA

@ILikeBirds

3 жыл бұрын

Holly mochi V I O L A jk It’s violin

@hollyzhang1418

3 жыл бұрын

@@ILikeBirds bahahaha was about to pull out a SaCiLiGoUs card

@ILikeBirds

3 жыл бұрын

Holly mochi LoL

@BorislavVeselinov

3 жыл бұрын

The cello? That's great.

I love recorder music and have a few Michaela Petri CDs. I don’t know why more people don’t learn recorder?? Although I’m into piano and synthesizer myself and just love the range of pitch and timbre variety that these instruments offer, none-the-less, I truly envy the portability of the recorder, its happy sound and its wonderful ability to be used as a weapon on meeting hoodlums in a dark alley. Self defence with a piano is really difficult ... but poetry in motion with a recorder. Love all your videos Sarah and look forward to the next.

Any tips on hitting the higher notes. I find it very hard to get the high notes

That concerto was amazing!

Very nice, are these tunes in your favorite melodies book that you sell?

I've noticed that in the Adagio (3rd piece) the alternative fingering for C would have been smoother and more comfortable, yet you used the conventional fingering. Was there a reason, or was it coincidental? The alternative would have made the C/H trill "cleaner" too, as you yourself noticed.

Aarghhh! Advert break just before the last note!

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

Oh nooo! Youtbe 😖

Have you checked out the RCM (Toronto) list?

Really great video!

I agree with you about the diversity. I learned played piano for 8 years. The only pieces I was given from a female composer were Anna Magdalena Bach's exercises. I then did 3 years of organ and I only got a piece from a female composer because -I- got it and asked my teacher if it was ok to include it in my repertoire for the exam.

@mquietsch6736

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to disappoint you, but those exercises were written FOR A.M.Bach, not BY her. They were written by her husband, J.S.Bach, because she wanted to improve her playing.

@AndyKaulitz483

3 жыл бұрын

@@mquietsch6736 I didn't know that! Even worse then :(

@AndyKaulitz483

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrMarcec85 I was agreeing with what Sarah said in the video. What I find disappointing is that for me to learn a piece composed by a female I had to source it myself. They exist and I know they are rare but are not given to us by our teachers, that's the problem. How inspiring would it be my teacher saying "I've got a piece for you to play that was written by a female composer, she was one of the few female composers of her era". That would encourage me to look out for more. For a long time as a student I didn't even consider this.

@mysaria7641

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrMarcec85 I do think if you were a woman you’d have a very high probability of thinking differently. The only reason those things didn’t cross your mind was because it just wasn’t relevant or even observable to you as a man, you just enjoy the music and don’t think about it, you see all the male composers and think “wow yes they r talented love their music”, but as a female you see that none of those people look like you, or are like you, and even though no one is being directly exclusitory, the seeds of self-doubt and perhaps a mild form of inferiority complex can begin to form. It’s easy to reassure yourself by pointing out how this was how women were treated *in the past* , but as a woman in the modern age you begin to wonder why there is *still* so little representation.

interesting video. Question: Is the midi-accompaniment you used available online for download somewhere?

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

I found it on IMSLP :)

Hi dear Sarah, Many thanks for all your videos. Is it possible to make all videos in order(I mean that putting number for each video!). I started to learn the soprano recorder from last two weeks. I will be appreciate.

My eyes can follow the music well enough, unfortunately my fingers can not.

Really loved the Pete Rose piece!

Beautiful playing and tone. I'm somewhat discouraged that after playing for years with friends and with amateur ensembles i'm not sure i could pass a grade one exam.

Yay! Her Majesty Queen Sarah Jeffery uploads a new video! Hooray!

Well done. It sounds beautiful...Are you sight reading whilst playing?

Are these pieces from 'Recorder Anthology' Book by Trinity?

I'm just beginning to prepare for my Grade 8 exam through the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), a Canadian institution. Interesting questions about diversity and representation. There isn't much diversity in the RCM recorder syllabus (which is long in need of a refresh). There are some options for modern-ish composers, including Colin Hand and Brian Bonsor, but few (if any) women and non-European composers. But there is, as one might expect, a fine selection of pieces by Handel, Bach, and Telemann. I prepared two jazz pieces by Bonsor for my Grade 6 RCM exam, which were challenging and fun to learn.

@thpeti

3 жыл бұрын

I've resisted changing the recorder to the clarinet is mainly because the music style. I hate 20th century music, I don't prefer playing romantic pieces, and I love baroque. And a little of jazzy things. Nothing else. So recorder is my instrument, but without the 20th century and contemporary music.

Thank you for your comments regarding diversity. It is so important.

I like the grade 7 jazz piece you played and will try to play it by copying you. I wish there was a plastic alto renaissance recorder I could buy.

I am a latecomer to recorder playing. I have enjoyed doing Trinity Grades as it has allowed me to explore lots of repertoire and encouraged me to aim to keep improving. I like the Trinity syllabus, because it has greater flexibility than ABRSM. Although I am happy to practise scales, I don't want them to be part of an exam, so having the alternative of performing a study is much more attractive. I'm hoping to do an exam when lockdown finishes, whenever that might be.

Great vid!

Currently I am practising Vivaldi, RV 441, concerto in C minor, JS Bach, BWV 1032, sonata in G dur. Telemann, TWV 41: f 1 And on the soprano Van Eyck, verdwaelde koninghin, malle Symen and blydschap van myn vliedt. But I only play van Eyck in summer. I think that having heard Sammartini in this video, I will get Sammartini out again. Such happy music! Never in my entire life have I been bothered with levels. I am so grateful for that.

I play what I like to play and want to play. However, I am tempted to do these Grades. Do they do these in the U.S.? If not, I am tempted to do them anyway, just for the experience. How do other people feel about Grades who have done them?

Grades have changed a lot from 20 years ago. I did saxophone grades 1 to 6.

I did when I was younger the easy exams the royal Victoria ones 😂. I was told royal Victoria exam 2b is the equivilabt of Royal Irish recorder exam grade 1.

Far out.... Got me there with those 16th notes.

How do you play all of those songs, cause I have a recorder and I really want to know how to play those songs.

hey Sarah - your end screen links seem to have disappeared. :)

I'm so sad about that poor animal laying behind you chair. It looks like he's trying to sleep and I'm amazed that he can.

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

Haha that’s my daughter’s toy whale, forgot to move him 😄

@patrickchambers5999

3 жыл бұрын

You mean she didn't miss him?

@margaretx582

3 жыл бұрын

Hens "lay" eggs, I "lay" the table but when I go to bed I LIE down.

@joshuacoppersmith

3 жыл бұрын

@@margaretx582 Apparently one doesn't "lay the table" in the US. Is that setting the table?

@marypzdixon3142

3 жыл бұрын

Joshua Coppersmith Yes, it’s also setting the table ☺️

Just discovered your channel. I am a High School band director in California. I was wondering if you played if you play any reed woodwinds?

@Team_Recorder

3 жыл бұрын

No I don't! I tried my best with clarinet and saxophone on this channel (😅), but aside from the recorder I learnt flute and piano 😊

Sarah I'm thinking of doing an Alto solo for the Opera house should i

As a kid, entirely self-taught on recorder, I had a couple of tutor books - which I played cover to cover - and a book of 4-part Bach chorals which I couldn't make anything of (probably my dad over-estimating my abilities). But for the next few years, I just played every tune I heard - pop songs, theme tunes to TV serials, whatever I could hum I played. It strikes me that this is not a completely absurd system: start from the music your pupil knows and enjoys best, and try to achieve something in that style. Obviously not all music suits the recorder, but over an entire genre there is probably a thing or two that will "work" on the instrument. Later, by all means introduce him/her to as many different styles as possible.

Oh my god, I looove the Sammartini's concerto ! Is it possible to find the score for free ?

@Lilipolette

3 жыл бұрын

@@wojciechrothbard7393 Merci merci merci ! :)

i think the end of krahmer no.40 is REALLY hard for a level 5 grade. because before it we don't really train fast notes. how we can train to play this fast from the start of learning recorder? anyone recommends some book or exercise? or i just play scales over and over?

I was 3d printing an Alto recorder for my 3d printing practice and I messed up the winpipe, so I have to try that part again. Hopefully I get it right. But the other parts are quite usable, the sound is good and I want to learn to play it once it is finished, starting from the first beginner class. I love the instrument and I have some songs that I really want to learn and play along with the guitarists at campfires.

Grade 0: *Recorder playings on your school's class...*

@realreads747

3 жыл бұрын

Technically grade 3 😂 Cus it’s a school grade

Hi Sarah. I really like your video. I have a question. Can we play using plastic recorder during exam? Thanks :)

@bisknem1

3 жыл бұрын

no restrictions on plastic with Trinity Guildhall even for G8 or diploma

@rjay229

3 жыл бұрын

@@bisknem1 Thank you for the response

11:03 This makes me feel good about myself. I can play this whole concerto, which I was under the impression that it was less than grade 8. I thought it was a 4 or 5. :-)

Ooooo! Let's get Sarah to publish a learning curriculum for the recorder! Wouldn't that be Awesome?!!!

I'm grade 2 I believe. I've only been playing a few months and I'm simultaneously learning the Ukelele, Guitar and working on my singing, so I would say that's not too bad.

I really like that Krähmer etude!

@orthohawk1026

3 жыл бұрын

Michala Petri plays a really nice Intro, Theme, and Variataions by Krahmer on her CD Souvenir. I've managed to learn by ear the Intro, Theme and minor variation (around the middle one) but the others are so "busy" I think I'll need the notes!

@honeychurchgipsy6

3 жыл бұрын

@@orthohawk1026 - thanks for the info I will check it out - never heard it before (at least I don't think so) before today.

I used to be pretty good myself. I could totally rock some "Mary had a Little Lamb". :) I am curious how one decides to become a professional recorder player. That's really interesting. Quite unique for sure! Thanks for the great video. I thoroughly enjoyed it and even shared it with my sister (who never masters "Hot Crossed Buns").

@nytrayfl2

3 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering this as well. In the U.S., back in the 70's, it was a gateway instrument to generate interest in band or orchestra a year or two later. We had no recorder players in our band or orchestra at all. I'm wondering if it had been an option if I would've stuck with it or went to the French Horn like I did. Recorder would've definitely been more portable.

You are so amazing😍😍😍😍

i wasn't expecting u to bring up diversity in composers of music i'm so happy that u did that!!!