Description

150+ Easy Tunes for Recorder with Chords

 

150+ Easy Tunes for Recorder is a perfect first sheet music book for beginners and improvers of all ages playing soprano (descant) recorder. It includes over 150 familiar songs with simple chords and free downloadable play along tracks.

A bumper compendium comprising popular traditional songs, tunes from around the world, Christmas carols, famous classics, lullabies, work songs, songs of praise, family songs, campfire songs, sad songs, and happy songs. Starting with the easiest, using just three notes, the book progresses to melodies that include notes from Low D to A above the stave. The pieces towards the end of the book are more difficult and there are a few challenging melodies scattered throughout, so the book will last!

 

Featuring:

• • Large easy-to-read notes.
  • Fingering diagrams are shown as new notes are introduced.
  • Downloadable tracks so you can hear how a tune goes and play along.
  • Chord symbols written above the stave for guitar or keyboard accompaniment.
  • Useful Tick Chart to help keep track of progress.
  • Musical Glossary. Brief explanation of music theory.
  • Rhythm Chart. Showing note lengths.
  • Note Names are written inside noteheads when a new fingering is introduced.
  • Diverse collection of music for beginners to around Grade 3.
  • Ideal for group music lessons, individual learning or teaching yourself.
  • Fun to play and learn.
  • An ideal gift or stocking filler for the recorder player in your life!

 

Includes:

All Around My Hat • Amazing Grace • Auld Lang Syne • Autumn • Away in a Manger • Banks of the Ohio • Barbara Allen • Brown Girl in the Ring • Can Can • Carrickfergus • Chopsticks • Down by the Riverside • Dry Bones • Famba Naye • For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow • Greensleeves •Happy Birthday • Hatikvah • Hava Nagila • House of the Rising Sun • Hush Little Baby • Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring • Jingle Bells • John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt • Kumbaya • La cucuracha • La cumparsita • Mexican Hat Dance • Molly Malone • Morning Has Broken • My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean • My Grandfather’s Clock • Ode to Joy • Oh Susannah • Oh When the Saints • On Ilkley Moor Bar T’At • On Top of Old Smokey • Peace Like a River • Pop! Goes the Weasel • Portsmouth • Scarborough Fair • Shake the Papaya Down • Shenandoah • Silent Night • Simple Gifts • Skye Boat Song • Spring • Streets of Laredo • Ten Green Bottles • The Blue Danube • The Dreidl Song • The Holly and the Ivy • The Lord’s My Shepherd • There’s a Hole In My Bucket • There Were Ten In a Bed • The Wheels On The Bus • The Yellow Rose of Texas • This Old Man • Three Blind Mice • Tumbalalaika • Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star • Wellerman • We Wish You a Merry Christmas • William Tell • Yankee Doodle • You Are My Sunshine • and many more.