The alto is a great choice if you plan to play in a group with other recorder players. We recommend that you begin on the alto recorder. Probably the two most common recorder voices that beginners learn to play are soprano and alto which one you might choose could depend on a number of factors. A simple comparison of the length of the soprano and alto saxophones shows that they are about the same, 70 centimeters long.

The alto saxophone is easier to play than the soprano saxophone, and so it is a good choice for beginners. The sizes most commonly in use today are the soprano (also known as descant, lowest note C 5), alto (also known as treble, lowest note F 4), tenor (lowest note C 4), and bass (lowest note F 3). Now when you blow into the instrument the air has to escape somewhere. And use it to cover the hole on the back of the recorder.Īnd you can hit different over time partly by changing your breath. Give yourself a thumbs up with your left hand and you're going to actually turn that thumb sideways. Whoo-hoo-hoo let's do that all again with the alto. And then half at the bottom hole with your knee. How do you play all the notes on a soprano recorder?Ĭlose all the holes on the recorder.

Its lowest note is c 2 (this article is notated using Helmholtz notation, in scientific pitch notation the same note is represented as C 5), the normal range is c 2–d 4. The soprano recorder is an octave above the level of the human soprano voice. What’s the lowest note on a soprano recorder? Place your mouth on the recorder’s mouthpiece and blow with a steady stream of air to produce low B. Place your right hand’s middle and ring finger over the fifth and sixth holes. How do you play lower B on the recorder?Ĭover the top three holes of the recorder with your left hand’s first three fingers (one finger per hole). All the other denominations can also go an extra semitone lower than MuseScore says by doing this.

On the soprano recorder, low Bs are very much possible and can be produced by covering all the holes and the one at the end by half.

Low d note recorder