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Recorder Karate Program

So, I have seen a TON of good ideas on Pinterest for Recorder Karate. So, I thought to myself, why not compile them all in one place? :) ...

Teaching Recorder: Top Tips. Organized Chaos. Compilation of all of the best ideas and tips for teaching recorder. Tips for getting a recorder program started, which instruments to buy, organization tips, teaching strategies, lesson plans, and more.

Music teachers, if you’re like me – you have to teach recorders at some point in your curriculum. It takes a lot of time and patience, but it can be a wonderful learning experience for students. As many of us, I use Music K-8‘s Recorder Karate framework for music learning. The premise behind the book […]

I started Recorder Karate a few weeks ago with my 5s and 6s. I thought I would share the songs that I use for each belt. Below is a copy of...

It's easy to figure out what songs, notes, and skills I need to learn to earn new belts with this simple Recorder Karate hallway display!

I love the idea of tracking and celebrating student growth and progress in a public way. With a task as complex as playing a melodic wind instrument, there are a lot of variables to master. It takes real practice and work to learn to play the recorder in a fun, […]

MZE3101: Recorder Rubric - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The document describes a rubric for evaluating recorder playing skills, including hand and finger positions, posture, note attack, intonation, tone, melody, rhythm, and musicianship.

Welcome back to Teacher Tuesday! Earlier this year I shared my current system for organizing and storing the students' sheet music for the Recorder Karate program. I've included the link to that post at the end of this one so you can read more about it if you're interested. Today's post is about my new recorder belt storage solution! Last year I started using loom bands as my "belts" and it was the best.decision.ever. No more cutting little pieces of yarn, no more tying things onto hundreds…

Part of my job is to mentor the instructors that teach beginning strings in the elementary schools in our district. Our elementary orchestra classes meet before school only 2-3 times per week. We have been doing a karate strings program and the students really enjoy earning the belts. This year, we will be using a different method book and I am totally re-structuring the curriculum. I just finished making a new karate strings pass-off sheet and curriculum guide. Students will staple the…