This is a simple and colourful guide to playing the descant recorder, for absolute beginners of any age. Friendly cartoon characters explain how to play each note, and provide an entertaining introduction to reading and understanding music. Carefully graded tunes - including well-known tunes, folk songs and Christmas carols - help players to develop their musical and technical skills at a steady pace. There are games and puzzles throughout the book, as well as fascinating facts about the recorder.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Usborne, Usborne First Music .

This book has been graded for interest at 6-9 years.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published in 1997 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

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