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Welcome to the wonderful world of recorder playing.
Your teacher has shown you how to hold your instrument
and make a sound on the mouthpiece. Let's play our first song!
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1. Our First Note
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2. Our Second Note
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3. Three's a Crowd
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4. Four In a Row
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5. A Funny Pair
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6. Skate Board Sam
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7. Catch That Note
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Whole rests get four beats of silence.
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11. Puppy Dogs
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28. Jingle
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A "time signature" tells you how many
beats there are in each measure of music.
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A "key signature" changes
certain notes throughout
a piece of music.
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When you see this key signature,
play all the Fs as F SHARP.
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