Recorder
The recorder is unforgiving in a way few other instruments are. Too much air and the note squeals, too little and it disappears, and everyone in the room hears exactly what happened. The pictures below split breath and grip into two things.
Recorder
Two hands hold a wooden recorder.
Recorder
A wooden recorder.
♂Recorder
A boy stands playing a recorder.
♂Recorder
A boy plays a red-brown recorder.
About this visual support
On a recorder every mistake is heard immediately and clearly. There is no volume control to hide behind, and the note reveals both fingering and breathing at once. That makes the instrument one of the most exposed things to practise at home, because the errors do not stay with the player but reach everyone in the flat or house straight away.
Visual support lets the two parts be practised separately. A picture for the finger positions and one for the breath means the grip can be trained without sound and the breathing without the grip, which removes half the difficulty at a time. It also makes practice less charged, because a silent step cannot sound wrong.
A concrete tip is to practise the fingerings without blowing, just the fingers on the holes. The hand learns the pattern before the sound is added. In Routined the practice can sit as a short step a few days a week, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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