"Recorder_Classroom" on November 4, 2009 at
11:04 AM -0600 wrote:
>We use mathematical equations (I forget where I got this idea - it wasn'=
t
>mine, though) for fingerings:
>{ "Thumb + one =3D B, Thumb + one + two =3D A; Thumb + one + two + thre=
e+ G,
>etc." }
>My fourth grade students love to recite these!

I use this too, but I've changed it to be thumbs (plural) + 1 =3D B, etc.
I'm trying to stress to them to have both hands on the recorder. The
second thumb is important to support the instrument.

Beth Jahn
mailto: bjahn@yme.k12.mn.us
K-6 Music
Yellow Medicine East School

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