Unfortunately, anyone with acute hearing will be able to tell that the little finger is missing because the note your recorder produces will be noticeably sharp. Once you are happy with this exercise, try a more extended work, piece 7b which places the note B flat in a more general context.ī flat is no more difficult than F but many recorder players are tempted to miss off the bottom little finger in a desire to make the fingering easier. These three progressions form the basis of our exercise, piece 7a. The more difficult movements, those between B flat and A and between B flat and G, require considerable control, even more if you try the progression slurred rather than tongued. Try moving back and forth between these two notes several times. Next, moving the hand as a block, lift all the fingers on the right hand off the recorder to give a C and then replace the first, third and fourth finger to return to the note B flat. Now, raise the second finger of the right hand to produce B flat. Using the standard nomenclature, the fingering for first octave B flat, or for the enharmonic equivalent A sharp, is written 0 1 2 3 4 6a 6b 7a 7b.Ĭover all the holes and, if you are not tonguing too strongly, you should be able to produce a clear bottom F.

Below that we give the standard fingering for this note, theįingering you would use under normal circumstances. The note A sharp is B flat's enharmonic equivalent, that is, it has the same fingering and in the equitempered scale is at the same as B flat.Ĭlick on the play button in the Sibelius score The seventh note we learn, B flat on the treble (alto) recorder, lies on the middle line on the treble clef with a flat sign either in front of it, in the key signature or on a B flat earlier in the same bar. Home :: resources :: music theory & history :: recorder lessons :: music dictionary :: physics of musical instruments :: e-monographsĬontents :: help page :: first things first :: fingering charts :: glossary of recorder terms :: Quick C :: Quick F :: comments or queries?Į :: D :: C :: A :: G :: F :: B b/A# :: B :: E b/D# :: F#/G b :: C#/D b :: G#/A b :: Second Octave :: Third Octave Dolmetsch Online - Recorder Method Online Treble/Alto B flat / A sharp

B flat is the same as