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