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Lesson Plans
Version 2
(Older Children)
- Getting to know one another
- Introducing the hand puppet Tiddelydoo
- Taking a look at the instrument
- Holding the recorder carefully
- First sound experiments
- Revision: long and short notes
- Distinguishing the right from the left hand
- Introduction to the b fingering
- Articulation using the tongue
- Controlling and intensifying the sound
- Breathing training
- Practising how to hold the recorder
- Listening to one another
- Loosening the fingers
- Stabilizing the notes b, a, g
- Improving sound quality
- Learning minims and crotchets and how to distinguish between them
- Playing alternating rhythms whilst learning to listen to the other players
- Recognizing, naming and playing pitches and rhythms in the notation system
- Playing long, pleasant-sounding notes
- Recapitulation of short and long notes
- Establishing homework as a fixed element of the lessons
- Recognizing minims and crotchets in the notation system, naming and playing the correct pitch (rhythm and pitch simultaneously)
- Becoming familiar with minims, crotchets and quavers
- Getting a feel for the different note values through movement, drumming and speaking
- Notation of these values
- The note values in the recorder language
- Conscious articulation with “doo”
- Practising fingering combinations
- Learning to distinguish between and to play minims, quavers and crotchets
- Working on a whole song so that it can be played in its entirety
- Recapitulation of rhythm
- Playing rain song
- Developing a chart of fingerings, notation and names of the familiar notes
- Being able to write down notes in the notation system and playing them with the correct fingering
- Learning to recognize and distinguish note names and note values
- Developing a sense of rhythm
- Conscious use of the tongue
- Reading and speaking rhythms
- Reading notes and playing them to the correct rhythm
- Heightening the children’s awareness of the role breathing has
- Improving sound quality
- First experience at performing
- Improvement of sound quality
- Improving the combining of note picture – note name – fingering
- Working on the song “--------------- ---------“
- Experiencing performance situations
- Echo game (exact repetition of rhythm and melody)
- Experience in performance situations
- Working on the railway song
- Repetition of note names and note values
- Expressing rhythm through movement
- Learning how the recorder is assembled
- Getting to know the terms fipple and flue
- Recapitulation: writing notes in the notation system
- Playing the railway song from music
- Remembering the new note e and finding its place in the notation system
- Improving sound quality
- Thinking up rhymes with the note e and playing them in the recorder language
- Recapitulation: activating and consciously using the tongue
- Learning controlled breathing, breathing games with cotton wool balls
- Using the recorder language “doo”
- Writing the note “e” in the five stave lines
- Writing “e” in the fingerings chart
- Playing “e”
- Posture exercise: puppet
Lesson 17: Railway song, E-rhymes, Tiddelydoo song
- Use of the tongue/ recorder language
- The note e: secure fingering, sound quality, recognizing it in the notation system
- Fingering combinations e-g, g-e
- Blowing dandelions and cotton wool as breathing training
- The Tiddelydoo song
- Rhythm
- Accelerating the tongue
- Accurate translation into the recorder language
- Repeating the Tiddelydoo song
- Loosening up and moving the fingers
- The new note “d”
- Articulation “doodelidoo” “diri” (“didi”)
- Listening to one another better and learning to react more flexibly
- Learning to control one’s breathing
- Practicing the b-c-b fingering combination
- Improving sound quality, especially with e and d.
- Recording language: using “diri”
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