Hi, I’m Michelle Williams. We’re at Foxes Music Company and I’m teaching you how to play the recorder. And we’ve already learned the notes B, A and G and we’ve learned how to play "Hot Cross Buns" and "Merrily we roll along." Now we’re going to learn "When the saints go marching in." In order to do that we’re going to need to know a few more notes. So fingering G, now, I think it’ll be easy, just put all the fingers on the recorder. Right hand also, remember your pinky goes over the -- there’s two holes down there and you need the pinky to cover both holes. And then if you put all the fingers down, this is middle C. So middle C is -- okay. Then the next note we need to learn is E. So E is just the first and the second finger in the right hand and everything in the left hand. That is E and then you add one more finger and that's going to be D. So everything but the pinky, all the fingers, that's D. And then, last but not least F. Now F is a little more tricky to remember. But it's -- the index finger in the right hand and your pinky and your ring finger. So the only thing that you’re not using is your middle finger and this is not the proper way to do it, I’m just demonstrating, that’s the F fingering. If I’m not using it, I’m just holding it over the key normally when playing.
So again once more C. D, we release the pinky and then E and F. Now we are ready to start playing "When the saints go marching in" and it starts off with quarter notes. And that is "When the saints go marching in."
Now next I will show you how to play the C major scale.
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