Tutorial: HOW TO PLAY FAST
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- Hi musicians!
Have you ever wanted to know how you can get your fingers to move faster, so you can play fast and difficult passages like they're a breeze?
Here I give a range of exercises designed to get your fingers relaxed, strengthened, confident with difficult note changes and running fluently! This tutorial is especially suited to the recorder, but would fit any wind instrument. And some of the exercises would fit any instrument!
[also, apologies for crappy lighting in places, in the Netherlands the sun sets at about 2pm and I continue to be surprised by this]
Thanks to Annabel Knight for teaching me a couple of these when I was studying with her!
Resources mentioned in the video:
'Three Exercises' by Kees Boeke, published by zen-on
'On playing the flute' by Johann Joachim Quantz, published by faber and faber
'Advanced Recorder Technique: Book 1, fingers and tongue' by Heyens and Bowman, published by Schott
Click here for my last tutorial: How to play duets!
• Tips for PLAYING DUETS
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Thanks Sarah, my 8 year old daughter found this tutorial very helpful. Her teacher was amazed with her improvement after she followed your advice in her practice. She asks me to pass on a big THANK YOU to you.
She also wants to ask how to play staccato clearly without sounding squeaky.
Hi, thanks so much for this message! I'm really impressed with your daughter - this is all material that we use at conservatorium level too! Good luck to her with playing in the future :)
I absolutely love this channel. I bought a tenor recorder several months ago to teach myself to play so I can play as an accompanist at church. Your tutorials have encouraged me to want to start teaching myself. Thank so much!
Thank you so much for your videos! You are a talented performer and a great teacher! Hooray, Team Recorder!
Thank you Sarah! I am enchanted with your explanations. You are making my days entertaining.
Thank you for creating this channel. I love the idea of learning and practicing the notes well - forwards, backwards, slowly, quickly - so the technique is well learned. I'm reminded of my typing class where the teacher would say learn the techniques well and the speed will come. By the way, I'm a new recorder player. I'm just learning the instrument so I'm very grateful for your channel.
That was great. Thank you Sarah. Off to put it all into practice now.
Hi Sarah, I've just had another look at this video because I now have to practise some fast passagi for my early music summer school and I am struggling to get it fast enough. Your video has lots of practical help and has given me fresh impetus to get going without pushing it too far. Thanks.
Great sympathetic teacher! Thanks for your lessons..
Hi Sarah! greetings from Venezuela. I watched your video and liked so much. I love how you teach, please never stop doing it!
I absolutely love your videos---this one on fast fingering is especially helpful. Moving my fingers quickly and precisely has always been a difficulty. I'm going to use your suggestions (and I already have a copy of the Boeke exercises----hurray!). Thank you so very much for making these videos. I love playing the recorder (and live a few hours away from Montreal where I take lessons when I can) but here in the States, recorder resources and teachers are few and far between. Again, thank you for your help and excellent suggestions. Best wishes from the Adirondack Mountains in New York State!
Very, very helpful! Thank you!
Thanks, been looking forever for something like this!
very helpful Sarah! Thank you
Great! I liked this video! It´s help me so much!
Thanks a lot for great information . The books are quite helpful ❤️.
I play Shakuhachi and Ney and your tips were equally valuable and helped me a lot. cheers
I love your lessons!
Lot of good stuff here, will have watch this several times.
Superb help...really find these an excellent addition to my daily practice ...and fULL technique suggestions.BRILLIANT. BIG THANKS
What about one on legato playing?
I play the piano and just love watching your videos! You are both charming and endearing! And believe it or not, some of your tips work on the piano!
This video really sinks into my heart. I really appreciated it much. Keep doing more for us and please if you can upload those music sheets on a website and send a link here for I can try it as part of exercise. Thank you
That's the way to teach methodically and with intelligence (not to mention your personal charm), my dear, quite impressive.
Please don't forget, when weather comes warm and beautiful again, to play something for the trees, somewhere in the woods or forest. The simple act of listening to a well played recorder makes them overjoyed and they will give you something wonderful in return. Maybe you will experience a pleasant surprise after a while, like two crows on a branch trying to imitate your playing with a stick in their beaks while making funny noises... I can tell you that's something unforgettable!
Thank you again, and may Big Kapok Tree be always with you!
Great tips! thankyou!
Thanks for this great video. My teacher, Gwyn Roberts, has shown me that, when practising a difficult passage, one is better off starting at the back end. E.g., start by practising the last two notes, then the last three notes, and so on. Works much better than starting at the front end.
Very helpful - thanks!!
Congratulations, interesting channel. I have a lot to learn from you
Epic Crossover
Your teaching is very interesting.
Please l digest you to follow this teaching please thank you.
Very helpful thank you!
Wow! Great video. Your channel helps enlighten me to things I never thought of. (Beginner to the recorder here.)
Another great video!!
such a great teacher. Fantastic. And thanks for putting the list of resources used in the 'about' section. Joining your facebook group. Fantastic teacher.
Thanks Sarah, that was really useful
I love this channel! I’m practicing the recorder again 🤓🥰
Very helpful. thank you
Fantastic video.
You say, almost as an aside, that one should isolate a difficult passage and play through it (slowly) till you've got it.
That has to be the boringly simple answer to "how to play fast" right there. It doesn't sound like impressive advice, until you've actually seen someone work that hard & reap astonishing results
Hi there Sarah! Thank you so much for these videos! I find them really helpful and you do it in such a lovely way!! Compliments!! About this particular matter, playing fast, I agree with everything you say in it. If I might say, I would add an important thing to me, which is be able to sing what you play. This is of course essential at any speed, but I find that sometimes fingers don't find their place just because the inner ear is simply not working fine. And in this case struggling only with fingers would not lead to success... This is my experience and like to share it with you! Thanks again and please go on with your wonderful videos and tips!!!
+Josep Maria Saperas Lafarga Hi Josep, I agree - the inner ear is so important! I sometimes like to challenge myself (and my ear) with weird note combinations, and make my fingers completely independent. But when making music, the ear is the most important, fingers are just your tools!
fenomenal! muchas gracias!! un fuerte abrazo desde el Zulia, Venezuela!
Sarah:
Thanks very much for your many video lessons. I just discovered them.
I started playing recorder in about 1960 but have been seriously backsliding in the interim,
playing guitar, mandolin, violin and string bass.
For a leaking recorder joint you might try teflon tape, a very thin tape used to keep threaded plumbing joints from leaking. You get it at a hardware store.
Chuck
Hi Sarah, I am a modern flute player but I love your videos and learned some good tips. Going to practice right now! :)
Great!
there are many teachers out in youtube but so far you have given the most detailed and comprehensible instructions! well done! your passion will influence thousends out there. Starting with me,my kids,the friends of my kids and so... can be a astronomic benefit to everyone who desires to learn and or improve their playing.
+NorthWind Wow, thanks! Feel free to send them my videos, and if you have questions/requests, let me know!
Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder thanks as well. I dont have resquests other than watching more videos from you as they enrich us all, but if you do not mind, how did you become a professional? I mean, did you study recorder especifically or did you study music OR made it into the pro life by being talented as you are? (Just if the question do not bother you, I wont be offended by not getting the answer). cheers.
+NorthWind Not offended at all! I studied bachelor and masters degrees in classical music specialising in recorder, first at Birmingham Conservatoire and then Amsterdam Conservatorium. Then making it in the pro life is a lot of hard work, practice, and.... sending emails! :)
Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder much appreciated ! :)
Brilliant, Sarah! @Carlos Villasenor, I play clarinet and while the two instruments are partly similar, they're also very different. Especially the embouchure, I think. Why not focus on one, get good at it and then move on to the other. They're both harder and easier in their own way. The thing I love about recorder is it's easier to tongue than clarinet!
Great video Thanks loads. Love your style! Wishing you lived next door so we could hang, I've been playing for about 6 months so this was a great lesson for me to develop some speed.
I have that book! Perfect.
very helpful thank you
Great tutorial! As a total beginner, I find your videos both useful and motivating. Also, as a teacher, I really enjoy the way you explain things (I'm going to show your channel to my 5th grade kids)! Thank you so much! :)
Ps. what about suggesting some entry level/ intermidiate/ advanced pieces or exercises and some tips about how to play them in your next videos?
Yes, and practicing singing the notes is good preparatory work! I'm an occupational therapist and recorder player and my husband is a music teacher. We love your videos, Sarah! The recorder is great to learn remotely like this!
You are awesome you are an inspiration to me your Chanel is awesome 👏
Thanks Sarah, this is really helpful. I've just had carpal tunnel surgery and the strengthening exercises will help. I've been struggling with fast passages too, so I'm going to try all these.
+Marianne Hulse Thanks Marianne, let me know how you get on with the exercises! I hope it helps.
You make it look and sound so easy
thanks im applying what you are saying to a whistle..!!!!! good stuff :)
My biggest obstacles (that I am currently aware of) when playing fast are going from (on an alto)
F - E flat - D - E flat - F
B' - A' - G'# - A' - B' (2nd octave)
F'' - D' - F''
Obviously, there are many more tricky ones, but these seem to crop up quite a lot in baroque pieces.
Thanks Sarah, I am loving all your info. You are inspiring this old grandma to get her fingers moving again. Loving it. I am also loving passing on the 'love of recorders' to my grandchildren. Keep up the fantastic work!
thanks Lyndal
+Lyndian may Great Lynda, keep enjoying it!
Hi Sarah, still having lessons with Nigel Martin (fab teacher!), we’re preparing for my grade 6, I’m trying to play Norman Fultons Scottish Suite, just the prelude but it has some brief but very fast passages. I’m looking for extra tips, already working from the Gudrun Heyen book ( which is excellent). Thanks for the video, congrats on the new job and all.
I like very much ur method of teaching I am a beginer of Flute.
It is interesting to come back to watch your videos again. You look so different in 2016.
I'm a guitarist, and started to play recorder a week ago, and I must say: you're really helping me! Thanks for the videos!
P.S.
There's a lot in common in guitar and recorder fingerings. That gave me a little advantage.
really!! I didn’t know they had a lot in common, that’s really cool
This is fab. I'd love to be able to play the semidemis in Vivaldi's c min Concerto at crochet = 75 but 60 will have to do for now.
Hi Sarah, i'm from Brazil and i love your videos.
I perform similar finger exercises on guitar. Interesting! All things being connected, it makes perfect sense! Likewise, I've done the "hole tap", but not in this context, rather more as an exploration of percussive sound.
New hair! Looks great. Really suits you. :) I'm still playing very slowly. Just got a student level wooden Moek soprano for Christmas. Learning to read music and play from scratch. Started with Jacob van Eyck. Almost there with my first interpretation of Doen Daphne -- just the simple melody. The modes are next! You switched me on to this beautiful instrument, and for that I shall be forever truly grateful. Thank you.
Haha. Just seen this is from '16. So that's old hair. Still, suited you! :P
Haha, thanks! 😄
I love you ,your so good!!! ,can you make a video ,how to play trinos
brava, brava!
Thank you for the tutorials Do you now a way to make the recorder play quietly?
hello,how are you, i love you, toco la trompeta y varias flautas, exelente lo que haces¡
I like these finger exercises.
The "how are you exercise" is also mentioned in Walter Van Hauwe's book vol 1 fingers. It's just given as a musical score so I did not realize until I saw your video, it's the same thing!
Gosh this feels overwhelming!
Thanks
I'm so sad 'cause I have no money to get a teacher and I also have no money to buy the books :( I really wanna know how to play recorder properly. I can play a lot of songs but they don't sound good as well... I dream one day I can become a professional recorder!
But I'm also happy cause I've found your channel! omg you are the best! I can't find something like this in portuguese so you are my light now! Thanks for the videos, never stop them, I like you much Sarah!!
same :,)
tentando aprender sozinho tmb. Vc ja ta pro?
No money to buy books buy enough to get an electronic
Hi Sarah - another great video. I was very interested in your comment about practicing accuracy and then leaving overnight and somehow you can play faster/more accurately next day. I had exactly this experience learning to play the piano as a teenager. I am now in my late fifties and have learned clarinet and now recorder....sadly it does not seem to work any more!!
Hang in there David I think the muscle memory is a young mans game I have to memorize everything to get it up to speed since a spinal injury my muscles dont "remember as well" I work it out though check it out th-cam.com/video/5wLlFVV0wAo/w-d-xo.html
Hang in there David I think the muscle memory is a young mans game I have to memorize everything to get it up to speed since a spinal injury my muscles dont "remember as well" I work it out though check it out th-cam.com/video/5wLlFVV0wAo/w-d-xo.html
I lolled so much on the sport music bit, gawd
Hi, Sarah.I'm soooo happy to hear that you will join the Royal Wind. Congratulations!!I really want to go and listen to the Royal Wind. I will go or would you come to Japan to perform?
Ooh, we have no plans to come to Japan at the moment - but if you do know of a nice festival that would like to book us, do let me know :))))
Hi do you teaching so well. Teach me! I live in Brasil.lol,lol..
grande lezione! sul libro THREE EXERCISES sopra alcune note c'è uno strano simbolo con dei puntini e delle linee. di che si tratta?
wow!
Have bought the 'three exercise' book which is fiendishly tricky! Where do you find out how to do all the variations of fingering? Have looked on line without success!
Hi Sarah! You are AMAZING! Love your videos. I've just bought an alto recorder (I've played clarinet for a number of years) and I'm not liking the 'no resistance' thing... I'm finding it especially difficult to play the lower notes louder?! Is this possible? Also, when I want to play staccato lower, it's SOOOOoooo difficult?! I keep playing the upper octave.... Is this just me?! (I hope not!). Please help?! AHHhhhh!
Be careful not to blow too hard or you'll go up an octave and make sure the thumb hole is completely closed1
Thanks!
I'm actually playing a low whistle, but the technique should be the same. I hope it will work out for me.
👍🏻
+Elad Eliav I think a lot of it translates pretty well!
Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder I'll tell you how it went... Just need to practice :)
But hoow do you read the sheets so fast? I mean, I know the FACE and Every Good Boy Does Fine method, but it takes ages to read a few notes and I just get frustrated
It takes time! Like learning any new language - in the beginning it's slow and frustrating and you're translating in your head, but over time it gets easier, and before you know it you're reading the notes without even thinking about it. A helpful tip it to read songs you already know by ear; folk songs etc. Keep at it!
I think you just need practice... Try playing piano, and it might become easier.
@@ahelbig4426 I could not play the piano, only "searching" the keys when I was fluent on the recorder.
I bought this from a yard sale. we had them in fourth grade. Im a guitar player and im wanting to develop my theory. i have c major scale down pat :) lol Of course i know the g major scale also. My question is what is the easiest way to learn the # and b's. Is this a good approach to learn the notes or should i just grind from the video where you showed all the notes? from low c to g is easy but then the half step fingering gets complicate after that. I guess im asking what do you think the easiest way to learn all the notes is?
That was a super lesson. Thank you. I am terrified of the lower c and c sharp note. I would pick music that didn't have them in. I haven't played for many years and came back to discover the lover c isn't so scary, but then I still cant get the sharp right. I have a short little finger! How do kids get it right?
I love your videos because I'm french but you speak with a good articulation ^^ and I can understand almost all. Could you tell me how we can evaluate our nivel ? I'm not a debutant but I think I'm not yet at the intermediate nivel because It's difficult for me to play very fast yet. Could you give some exemple of an intermediate nivel ? Thank you
tres sympa....
hi I have a plastic recorder that says B on the back hole but I am having a really hard time fingering so when I try to blow it one of the holes sound really wrong
hi sarah
i have been trying to learn rechorder.. playing earnestly but its just that i always end up using a very soft sound using syllable Th Th...i dont know what is the right sound and it ends up in a mess ...can you pls suggest something..lots of love from India
Hi Sarah!
That's an Awesome One there!
Please how do I hit the Note E, third 8va on a Soprano recorder clean?
Open the thumb hole only a very tiny bit, have a very thin and fast air stream, and give it a good articulation with your tongue!
Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder
Alright...
Thanks!...
But what about the other fingers?...
Are they left all open?
do you have videos for soprano recorder players
Hi Jazmin, good question! Most of what I say in my videos can be applied to any size of recorder. I often demonstrate things with ther alto, but you can do it on soprano too! So in the 'how to play fast' video, the finger exercises all apply to soprano too. Check out 'how to sound good on a soprano recorder' for some advice on playing the smaller instruments!
I LOVE UR TEACHING .....I NEED LESSON FOR BEGINER PLS ......U DOING A GOOD JOB
Do you have one on how to do cuts, rolls and crans on the whistle?
Dear Ms. Jeffrey, most Baroque compositions have an anchored 'pedal' note alternating with a moving set of notes usually scalar & in semi quavers. How does one practise these passages? Harry. By the way, it's not gravity that brings the fingers back but the state of equilibrium between flexors and extensors..I think!
How do I know when I am ready to move up from my Yamaha 300 series plastic alto to a wood instrument?
You can get a great tone from a wooden recorder. Plastic recorders are great, but wooden is even better, so if you can afford one, I'd say go for it!
You are gonna be a famous youtuber. :P This is so awesome.
+Dianne Heijstee Haha, thanks Dianne! Fame and fortune is obviously why I became a recorder player.
+Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder
Hahahahaha! ;D
all this is great but when you blow you use articulation?for me that is the problem to a fast piece.what type of articulation use and how?
Hi do you have any ways to help stretch the pinky finger for playing alto, for the 3rd hole towards the mouthpiece? Soprano is easy for my pinky placement but with alto it starts to hurt from over-stretching. Thank you!!!
Hi Andre, for this you can check my video ‘how to stretch the big recorders’!
Can you please post the title/author of that 3 exercise booklet? Thanks!
Press hard on B. If you can't play with your left at all, use your right hand.
Anchor the fingers that don't need to move. Why did I not think of that? It's the same breakthrough that allowed my chord changes on guitar to go faster. LOL. I'm making it harder on myself!
u rock Sarah
I am the absolute greenest of beginners. I simply can't figure how use my ring finger on those "tandem" holes. Do you have a video showing a scale for the soprano recorder, note-by-note. If you don't, could you recommend one?
how do you play the recorder if your double jointed? it hurts my hands alot :(((
3:16 Omg thats what i call hyperextensions '-'
Simply love your energy and enthusiasm.. You are such a happy soul :) Which is why you are able to play the recorder well..