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FREE Online Recorder Class for Beginners with Marea Chernoff (alto recorder)
6/21/2022 - 6/30/2022

Event Description
ARS introduces a Free Online Beginners’ Course! The recorder is a fantastic instrument for people who want the social experience of playing with others, wish to play a variety of repertoire, and can learn to do so at a basic level in a relatively short time. Whether you’ve never played recorder before, or if it has been eons ago since you have played, can or cannot read music, this is the course for you!

Build a solid foundation for learning through the American Recorder Society’s 4-part beginners’ course for alto recorder. Professional recorder player and teacher Marea Chernoff will lead you through this course and help you learn fundamentals of making a beautiful sound from the start: blowing, hand/finger position, articulation, basics of note reading and rhythms.

This course will use the following method book which provides excellent methodical exercises to learn fingerings, while providing simple tunes to musically satisfy! The Sweet Pipes Recorder Book: A method for adults and older beginners by Gerald Burakoff and William E. Hettrick. Alto, Book One. SP02318.

Dates:
Tuesday, June 21, 7:30 p.m. EDT (6:30 p.m. CDT, 5:30 p.m. MDT, 4:30 p.m. PDT)
Thursday, June 23, 7:30 p.m. EDT (6:30 p.m. CDT, 5:30 p.m. MDT, 4:30 p.m. PDT)
Tuesday, June 28, 7:30 p.m. EDT (6:30 p.m. CDT, 5:30 p.m. MDT, 4:30 p.m. PDT)
Thursday, June 30, 7:30 p.m. EDT (6:30 p.m. CDT, 5:30 p.m. MDT, 4:30 p.m. PDT)

For this course, you will need the Sweet Pipes Recorder Book and an alto recorder. Consider purchasing these from one of our business partners, and please allow ample time for mail delivery! If you have purchased the Sweet Pipes Recorder book online but are concerned that you may not receive it in time for your first class on June 21st, we can provide you with a "temporary" copy for download. Instructions will be in your emailed registration confirmation notice.

Do you need to purchase an alto recorder? You cannot go wrong with the best plastic recorders on the market. Yamaha, Aulos, and Zen-On all make fine sounding and in-tune plastic recorders. Consider purchasing an instrument from one of our business partners (the names in quotes below cite the original 18th c. recorder makers from which the plastic models are modeled):

Von Huene Workshop (The Early Music Shop of New England), Boston, MA: (617) 277-8690
Yamaha "Rottenburgh" alto recorder 
https://www.vonhuene.com/p-115-yamaha-rottenburgh-plastic-alto.aspx
Aulos "Haka" alto recorder 
https://www.vonhuene.com/p-126-aulos-plastic-haka-alto.aspx
Zen-on "Bressan" alto recorder 
https://www.vonhuene.com/p-6331-zen-on-g1-a-440-bressan-alto-recorder.aspx
Sweet Pipes Recorder Book 
https://www.vonhuene.com/p-3689-burakoff-gerald-hettrick-sweet-pipes-recorder-book-book-1-adults-and-older-beginners.aspx

Honeysuckle Music, St. Paul, MN: (651) 644-8545
Alto recorders 
https://honeysucklemusic.com/show3.php?cat=Alto
Sweet Pipes Recorder Book 
https://honeysucklemusic.com/showf.php?item=5289

Lazar's Early Music, Carson City, NV
Yamaha "Rottenburgh" alto recorder 
https://lazarsearlymusic.com/collections/recorders/products/yamaha-abs-resin-recorder-alto?variant=29092748591186

RecorderForge.com Happy Valley, OR
Alto recorders
https://recorderforge.com/Shop-by-size/F-Alto/