Music Centre meets every Saturday during term time
Early Days Recorders
Tutor: Paul Hunter
Ages 5 to 7
10.15am – 11.45am
- Understanding pitch, pulse & rhythm
- Learning reading skills
- Playing simple percussion
Junior Recorders
Tutor: Jenny Acons
Ages 7 to 10
9.00am – 10.15am
- 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
Senior Recorders
Tutor: Christopher Dixon
Ages 14 upwards
9am – 10:15am
- 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