How to Play the C Major Scale on the Recorder

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Michelle Williams
Flute & Recorder Instructor, Foxes Music Company
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Michelle is a local music teacher in the Falls Church area, joining the Foxes Music Faculty four years ago. She is also an active musician in the Washington D.C. area and internationally, performing in various ensembles and as a soloist. She is currently a member of the HOTS Jazz Orchestra, the Columbia Flute Choir, and forms one half of a local Flute and Guitar Duo, as well as one third of a Flute, Violin, and Cello Trio. Her playing has taken her as far as Israel and Mexico, where she has entertained as a soloist, and to France and Northern New Zealand performing with the HOTS Jazz Orchestra. Locally, Michell has performed for the Victorian Historical Society in Falls Church, at business meetings and conventions. Ms. Williams graduated from the Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Science degree in Arts Management where her applied major was in Flute. She has been teaching since 1992 and she is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity, the National Flute Association, and the Washington Flute Society.

How to Play the C Major Scale on the Recorder

This video will show how to play the C major scale on the recorder.

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Michelle Williams: Hi, I am Michelle Williams. We are at Foxes Music Company and we are learning how to play the recorder. We have learned how to play "Hot Cross Buns", "Merrily we roll along" and "When the saints go marching in" and now we are just going to learn the C major scale on the recorder and to do that we will just learn one more note and which is a higher C. We learned those C with all the fingers down and high C which is Octave higher is --So now and it's just almost the beginning, you are playing low C, raising your pinky for D, raising one finger at a time till you get to F by that other finger. Auto fingering kind of but anyway I will show. The C major scale is -- that is the reason why I wanted to teach you the C major scale because when you play "When the saints go marching" it does include part of the scale just when you start off with "When the saints...", this leaves out the D but otherwise the C major scale once more is - and that concludes the recorder lesson for the day.

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