Learn to Play Recorder

Rain, Rain Go Away

  • Keep pairs of quavers even.
  • Count two crotchet pulses in every bar.

Composer: Traditional; published reading by Natalie Sarrazin

Original: D major; p. 154; Music and the Child (2016)

Prepare the lower note in Lesson 4 and quavers in Lesson 6.

Notes Used: E4, G4, A4

Notes Used: A4, C5, D5

Time Signature: 2/4 · Key: C major

Time Signature: 2/4 · Key: F major

Fingering Review

Published melody

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Rain, rain, go away,
Come again some other day.

Practice exercises

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Reading ©2016 Natalie Sarrazin, Music and the Child; transposed recorder adaptation: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Performance Goal: Keep the repeated notes even and the last note a full beat.