VIDEO: Flute fingerings for the recorder

This is how you learn the flute fingerings

• Learning to play the recorder is not difficult. The normal recorder, the soprano recorder, is tuned to the key c. That means the deepest volume a c is. You grasp this by placing all your fingers on the holes and closing them.
• With your left hand you grip the bottom with four fingers, the thumb supports the flute at the back. With your right hand you close the upper holes, the thumb closes the so-called overblow hole at the back of the flute.
• Hold the flute at about a 45-degree angle away from your body, put the mouthpiece in about the upper third in your mouth and blow gently into it. By briefly tapping the piece of mud with your tongue, you contour the played notes and ensure that they stand out from each other.
• On the Internet, e.g. B. on musiceum.de, find a fingering chart easily and free of charge. There you can see which tone is created when you cover which holes. Beginner's booklets for recorder, which you can get in specialist music shops, give you a few exercises to get you started.

Her first song on the recorder

• The song "Alle Meine Duckchen" is easy to learn even for absolute beginners and will help you keep the flute fingerings. Start with the lowest note. When all the holes are closed, the column of air is the longest, as you remove finger by finger, the column of air in the flute becomes shorter and the tone higher.


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• All my ducklings, c d e f g g, raise your little finger first, then your ring finger, the one, to the rhythm of the melody Middle finger and index finger of the right hand (the thumb continues to support the flute) and then the little finger of the left hand. Repeat the last note.
• Swimming on the lake, swimming on the lake, a a a a g, a a a a g, raise your ring finger left hand, play the tone four times and then close the previous hole with the Ring finger.
• Head into the water f f f f f e, tail up, d d d d c. Cover the holes four times with the index finger of the right hand, once more with the middle finger of the right hand, four times with the ring finger, once with all fingers.

With this simple song, you'll quickly get a sense of achievement and go up and down the scale a bit. In this way, even small children quickly gain an understanding of how the flute fingerings work on the recorder.