Intro to CONTEMPORARY / EXTENDED TECHNIQUES for recorder! | Team Recorder
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- Ever wanted to get into contemporary music, but not sure how? Here is my guide to contemporary techniques on the recorder! Many modern compositions use so-called 'extended techniques' and here I give a full introduction to them - how to play, perform and read a bunch of the most common ones!
Including: fluttertongue, multiphonics, sputato, singing and playing, whistle tones, percussive effects, finger/tongue vibrato, extreme trills, air sounds, white noise, glissando, looooong notes and more.
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In this video I play on a Mollenhauer dream alto in pearwood.
How to hit the low notes on your recorder! Avoid squeaks and reach a clean and sonorous tone. I give you tips on your instruments, your fingers and your air stream to make sure you can acheive a rich sound!
OPEN RECORDER DAYS AMSTERDAM
25-29 October 2017
www.openrecorderdays.com/
Links to other videos I mention:
HAND POSITION
• RECORDER HAND POSITION...
HOW TO HIT THE HIGH NOTES
• HOW TO HIT THE HIGH NOTES
CLEANING YOUR RECORDER
• OILING and CLEANING yo...
In this video I play on a 440 alto by Yoav Ran, and a 442 tenor by Yamaha.
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1:45 Fluttertongue
2:32 Multiphonics
3:28 Sputato
4:00 Whistle tones
4:35 Singing and playing
5:07 Alternative fingering
5:40 Glissando
6:06 Long notes
6:34 Random fingering
7:07 Pitch bend
7:42 Finger vibrato
8:29 Blowing into different bits and white noise
9:39 Percussive sounds
10:21 Extreme tremolo
10:52 burbles
11:02 Labium vibrato
11:18 Tongue vibrato
11:30 shaking
11:45 Highest sound
Interesting how the recorder skipped the whole Classical and Romantic periods only to be adopted by contemporary composers and early music enthusiasts. We don't see this mix of ancient and modern with too many instruments. (Nor with many instrumentalists!)
Thanks to your videos, the old misconception I had about a recorder being a simple, monophonic instrument has been totally blown out of the water. You've shown me that it's a much more versatile and nuanced instrument than my music teacher would have had me believe.
All about extended techniques for composer...! Thank u so much!!
I am a recorder player from New Zealand and I am so pleased to have found your channel! I play in a consort and teach and your videos are a fantastic resource. Go Team Recorder!
I love how much you love to play the recorder. You inspire me everyday to practice. :)
wow....I am now obsessed with recorder. can't thank you enough. recorder is so flexible. and the extended techniques are so quirky I just love them. alas, I need to get my basics right first. I just picked up the recorder again after learning it very briefly in primary school.
Thanks Sarah. This video (and your channel) was very helpful for me as I just composed a suite called "Forest Scenes" for Recorder Ensemble comissioned by the Stuttgarter Blockflötenorchester. So I used many effects that you taught.
You are a great help, I'm going to purchase all the books you've talked about in other videos also
Great video
you've taught me so much sarah the recorder has so much depth
Thanks for such a passionate and merry demonstration of contemporary music, that's the way to inspire people and help reduce resentments.
I like to try these out as part of my warm down, helps raise a smile and I discover a whole new world of music making, and extending practise time. Thanks very much for all your inspiration.
One of your best I think
Really enjoy your channel and appreciate the time and effort you put into it.So nice to see someone who clearly loves the recorder and exudes such enthusiasm!
What a wonderful and useful video! thank you so much.
Great video - as usual! BTW: I always use “glissando” “longing notes” and “full finger vibrato” when I play such tunes as George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” on my Bb clarinet. They also come in handy on my alto recorder. 😉
Hi Sarah, thank you so much for your videos, I'm getting back into composing again and am writing an alto recorder piece for a friend. I love your explanations and enthusiasm
Your videos are excellent and this video is one of the best. I am amazed at the variety of sounds that are possible on the recorder. Also you have activated in me an interest in contemporary recorder music.
That's so nice to hear!
WOW! Just the boost I wanted!
Brilliant instrument - it can almost be made to sound like anything you want - love the contemporary possibilities - thanks Sarah for your enthusiastic animation 🎼👏🦅🍷
Amazing video. At the moment I am writing a piece for an ensemble including recorder, and I found this video very helpful. Also I have spent some time just sitting with the recorder, trying to figure out techniques I find beautiful on my own which to my surprise actually works (as I am not a recorder player by any means). Thank you, and keep up your good work!
Love your video ! Watched again so many times because you made me laught so much ! 'Sounds like the wind.... ohhh'. Very informative video BTW. Great job !!!
Thank you for posting this. I really wanted to try contemporary music when I saw your video for composers. My teacher recommended me to learn Fragmente by Shinohara. It is very hard but introduces a nice bunch of technical difficulties. It is fun to study and a beautiful piece of music. Playing it also helps to appreciate it more. You really should introduce this to us!
You are amazing!
Thank you!!!❤️
You should do a second part!
fantastic, thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing video! My child and I loved it! You are excellent at playing and teaching!
Thx keep ‘em coming
Sarah refuses to say frown, you’re not sad you’re upside down happy.❤
I have seen traditional whistle players speak extensively about vibrato. Many believe that the only legit form of vibrato comes from developing a form of flattement. They tend to discourage or condemn vibrato coming from the diaphragm. Which I find I bit odd seeing how certain notes do not present an opportunity for vibrato with flattement. Any way, you can look up some whistle players if you want to see musicians who really use the technique regularly. I would suggest Brian Finnegan of Flook for starters. Great video Sarah!
ahaha you are THE teacher!! thank you!!
Recommendations for contemporary pieces for all levels? Love your videos thank you for sharing
Thanks for this video! I was always curious about how those weirdly notated things sound :D Really interesting! ♥
Thanks for your advice. We'll let you know how we go!!
Thank you so much for your video! Very instructive. And you are very funny. :-D
Fantastic
very cool, TY
I've been following your videos for quite a while. Thank you so much, it's a great source of information about recorders! In this video, you relate to quite a few technics and show part of scores. Can you please mention in the description lines the name of the composers and the name of the compositions?
Thank you so much for this Sarah, I’m a composer at GSMD writing an opera right now for my MA and I chose to have two recorders in the ensemble and your video has been so transformative/life saving - the music’s so much more alive now!! Ps love your channel - I bought some recorders to test out sounds for the orchestration and you’ve inspired me to carry it on even after the opera 😁
Ahh that’s amazing! So happy to hear there’s recorders in the opera- let me know if there’s a recording I can hear? 😊 The main tricky thing is notation and clefs/octaves as each size of recorder has different conventions. Can’t wait to hear your work!
@@Team_Recorder yeah, I’ve been discovering by lots of trial and error that what’s on the page isn’t exactly how it sounds... 😂 and I will absolutely send you a link once it’s been performed - hey, if you’re in London in July and if we’re allowed an audience - covid allowing - I could even try and swing you a ticket if you’d want! The opera’s all about phones and how we present ourselves differently in person & through technology, so the recorders play a vital function bridging those two soundworlds. Thanks again, love your videos ☺️ x
Last week, I treated myself to a Mienl Descant recorder... I must say, it has a much lovelier tone than any of my resin recorders!
How do you get past feeling ridiculous or awkward with these methods?
VERY GOOD QUESTION and I'm going to tackle this in a Q&A very soon! But in the meantime - concentrate on the music of it. You are making those sounds for a reason, and find the beauty (or the ugliness, depending on context!) in them :)
Cool video mate Liked :)
Your pronounciation of Italian words is not bad at all for a native English speaker!
Grazie! :)
Nice vid. How do you notate when you blow harder a note and therefore sounds higher?
I LOVE your videos. Your delivery is captivating. I have an enquiry. One of my students is doing Marcussen's 'Bekkeblom' on tenor recorder for an exam in a couple of weeks' time. There are slanted up and down arrows above notes in bar 2 (and various other notes in the piece) that we're not sure how to interpret. Can you suggest a solution please? Thanks. Adrienne
Hi Adrienne, thanks for your compliments! Hmm, I don't know that piece but I see it's on the Trinity exam syllabus. Is there not a key that explains the technique? I\m not exact;y sure. As it's an exam piece I find it strange that the edition wouldn't explain it....
Some genres and composers also use a z for fluttertongue i do believe.
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Thank you so much, Sarah - I've been wanting to know about these techniques for ages - bought Music for a Bird after it was on YMOTY in 2012 - but no idea what so many of the notations mean!
Talking of notation, I just bought The Bird Fancyer's Delight for my student who has fallen in love with her sopranino, and some of the notes have an equals sign over them. Is that a trill or a repeated note or what?
I'm feeling like the luckiest person on earth because I've just saved up enough to buy a Helder Treble. Oh my goodness it is gorgeous, especially at the bottom - and higher up as well. Do I really need to limit my playing to ten minutes per day when it has a Synpor block? I just want to play it all day, but there doesn't seem to be much advice about it online. How do I balance the recorder on my thumb and lower lip when it's own weight causes the lip control to spring into action? And is there an easy way to get the piano key on while still retaining freedom of movement in the left hand? I used to play the oboe so I am used to having an octave key there but I don't remember that being so crippling on hand position! And if you know of any user forums for it, I'd love to know about them because I feel as though I'm floundering about in the dark at the moment and I would hate to damage my instrument through ignorance…
Nice video! Do you have suggestions for contemporary pieces? I've played Pete Rose's Medieval Nights and I'm looking for pieces with a similar difficulty level. Thanks!
Tom Arrow Pete Rose:Bass burner; and I'd rather be in Philadelphia for solos or tall P for ensemble. Gus Haverkate: various jazz arrangements for solo or ensemble Jaxzin' 1 and jazzin' 4. I love return of the pink panther in Jazzin 1. Van der Roost: I continenti for four recorders (listen to Flanders recordings- very weird and some more tuneful than others, but exactly what this video is about. South America is easiest. Paul Leenhouts' arrangement of return if the pink panther for 4 is awesome! Finally- Otfried Busing has some very edgy solos. One for garklein and a set of solos for different recorders: "animal society" . For just pretty and modern but not extended techniques look at Pieter Campo and Soren Sieg.
Thank you very much!
Hans Martin Linde: To a bird - th-cam.com/video/3Zd4cXeGCMk/w-d-xo.html
Hi Sarah, where is the best place online to buy that awesome alto?
Thank you for your inspirational lessons.I recently started listening to Yun's Chinese Pictures, which bring the recorder into the world of shakuhachi (or vice versa). Have you studied these pieces?
+selfunderstanding b Yes! They are beautiful- I especially like the 'actor with the monkey movement:)
it would interesting to hear you...maybe alongside shakuhachi clips..I wonder if anyone has attempted to actually transpose the Yun for shakuhachi...maybe impossible
Does anyone have recommendations for stuff to play for the Contemporary novice? Pieces, books, etc?
(I've been playing the alto for over a year, and recently started on the soprano, so I'm basically still an all-around novice ^^)
Sarah. Challenge for you: Beatbox and play something Baroque :)
Hows this?
th-cam.com/video/IrRRTiwoGx8/w-d-xo.html
hi there Sarah ! im a big fan of you , by the way can you make a recorder tutorial on Ed Sheeran's Nancy Mulligan song? I really love that song. thank you so much hoping for your positive response thanks!!! God bless
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You will never catch me playing these extended techniques. And it is not very often that I will listen to them. But was interesting to see this video about them.
Actually, some of the techniques, like glissando and flutter tongue, are not that "extended".
exactly! a lot are used in loads of genres of music and are pretty normal 😄
Also see this amazing demonstration: th-cam.com/video/Uh67UoIlFwE/w-d-xo.html
Have you ever heard about playing the recorder backwards by buzzing your lips into the bell, like on a brass instrument?
So I'be always know the recorder to have only two octaves, but I have seen in some places where there is a third ocvate in the recorder's register. Do you know these notes and can you show us them?! Thanks!!!
Hi Jake, oh yes the recorder can go to aaaalmost three octaves! I'll show that in a video one time. In the meantime try: www.americanrecorder.org/recorder_fingering_charts.php
Awesomeness! Thanks a bunch!!
'Twas interesting
can I use this on flute?
Yes! Some things may work slightly differently - multiphonics maybe, glissando may be harder with the keys, and flageolet tones... but the rest for sure! Let me know how you get on!
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Hello Sarah,
I was playing along recently with the video and I found out most things work. so thanks
sarah can you play flight of the bumblebee
so you can have chromatic technique
Good idea :)
For the blowing into different parts of the recorder, could you remove the upper joint and blow across to create a flute-y type of sound? th-cam.com/video/6zIOoaq_vbc/w-d-xo.htmlm34s the player does it here on a clarinet but could the same idea work with a recorder?
Defnitely! You make an embouchure yourself with your lips, a bit like the instruments kaval or ney.
could you please play little burnt potato on a soprano
a w e s o m e
Hi Sarah ! What about notation ? Do softwares like Sibelius or Finale handles such notation symbols ? And when you playback the score, is it realistic ? Otherwise, this jazz recorder player happens to use some of the techniques listed on your video : m.th-cam.com/video/wtCiZga3Yy0/w-d-xo.html
Good qu! I only know Sibelius and that has quite a lot of symbols you can add, but I havent really tried to notate it myself. I think the playback is ‘t so reliable...
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Unfortunately, there is no key to the terms .... and we can't find any recordings. At least it provides an opportunity for our imaginations to go wild. We chose the piece because we like the tenor sound. The price you pay .......
In that case, do let your imagination run wild! :D You don't to worry about what the examiner thinks in that case :) Interpret it in a way that fits your idea of the 'story' of the piece - it could be little glissandos or pitch bends up or down...
*angry cause I can’t play fluttertongue*
Contemporary? Like the way you speak is not contemporary enough 😁
Contemporary art sucks,in any form presented. It has no meaning, lacks beauty , symmetry, and leads to nothing without any spiritual benefit!