Lyons Rhythm Kits. Lyons Soprano Recorder. Recorder Songs. West Music - Your Source for Musical Instruments and Music Education - Recorders, Kids Percussion, Orff, Remo Drums, and more! Teaching resources for recorder. There are presently many available instructional books and a few really excellent web sites dedicated to the teaching of Recorders.
Feel free to visit the recommended links featured onthis web site. They are rich in content and you can learn much from the experts. As we feel that there are already adequate online content area being covered by other recorder sites, we'll not be duplicating that but instead gladly point them out to you. However, there are areas we feel have not been adequately addressed and that's what we'll be dealing with here. Teach the Recorder. Jennifer Mead Music Studio - Teaching the Recorder. Research shows that the act of READING music notation (not just making music) has a direct correlation to "academic" achievement.
Reading musical notation while perfoming on an instrument or singing is a cross-brain activity which builds brain connections and strengthens neural pathways. Research also shows that the neural pathways forged as a child should be used often to avoid the brain's "pruning" process that happens before adolescence has ended. One way to make sure the brain pruning doesn't happen is to provide plenty of notation reading experiences to kids--and the Recorder Karate program is a great way to accomplish this. This little gem of a teaching program is available from Plank Road Publishing (the same folks who publish Music K-8 Magazine) and is the single most successful recorder teaching method I have ever used. Basically, it works like regular karate--kids earn belts that correspond to certain skills.