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There are so many excellent books about recorder technique and so many good teachers around the world that it doesn't make much sense to treat this matter from scratch here.

However there are a couple of simple ideas that we should carefully consider when playing jazz:
  • ideally, a jazz player should totally master his/her instrument, including a large quantity of different scales, chords and melodic/harmonic patterns;
  • enhanced sound, articulation, intonation and special effects techniques are all basic elements to posses in order to play any contemporary music using the recorder, and this is also true for jazz.
We should therefore extend our traditional notion of recorder "technique" to include some estraneous elements.
Here is a list of articles I hope I'll be able to provide during the next few months:
  • Sound and dynamics (partially taken from a lesson with Heiko ter Schegget)

  • Breathing
    • Circular breathing
    • Didjeridoo (the world's oldest wind instrument)
    • Nasal (sinus) irrigation (the Yoga practice of Jala Neti)

  • Fingers/Tongue
    • Finger fitness (with and without the instrument)
    • New Scales
    • Chords
    • Patterns

Last update: 2007-06-04