Learn to Play Recorder

Amazing Grace

  • Count the opening silence.
  • Keep each quaver pair inside its beat.

Composer: Traditional; named historical reading below

Original: New Britain, middle tenor; C major; Walker 1847, p. 8

Prepare quavers and three-beat bars in Lessons 6–7.

Notes Used: D4, E4, G4, A4, B4, D5

Notes Used: G4, A4, C5, D5, E5, G5

Time Signature: 3/4 · Key: G major

Time Signature: 3/4 · Key: C major

Fingering Review

Published reading

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Practice exercises

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William Walker, The Southern Harmony (1847), p. 8; public domain.

Performance Goal: Keep the opening silence and changing quaver figures in time.