Music Centre meets every Saturday during term time
Early Days Recorders
Tutor: Brigid Frazer (sabbatical cover 2017-18 Paul Hunter)
Ages 5 to 7
9.00 am – 10.15 am
- Understanding pitch, pulse & rhythm
- Learning reading skills
- Playing simple percussion
Junior Recorders
Tutor: Jenny Acons
Ages 7 to 10
9.00 am – 10.15 am
- Becoming more fluent and playing smoothly
- Learning new notes and playing in new keys
- Learning to play in 2 parts – listening and counting
- Learning to sight-read
- Playing mostly well-known tunes, ragtime and traditional melodies
- Singing and playing rounds
- Experimenting with percussion, such as chime bars, to accompany recorders
Intermediate Recorders
Tutor: Nick Stacey
Ages 9 to 14 years
9.00 am – 10.15 am
- Playing in three or four parts
- Learning more adventurous keys and higher notes
- Experiencing treble, tenor and soprano recorders
- Variety of styles from Delius to Disney
- Branching out into more complicated rhythms and syncopation
- New arrangements, specially for this group, of well-known pieces
- Relaxed and fun atmosphere
Senior Recorders
Tutor: Christopher Dixon
Ages 14 upwards
9 am – 10:15 am
- Developing new techniques for playing more difficult repertoire
- Learning to hold a musical line
- Extensive repertoire from baroque and classical pieces to modern arrangements of Scott Joplin and Lennon and McCartney
- Playing the full range of recorders to a high standard
- Developing confident musicianship in a friendly atmosphere
