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