![]() ![]() I would recommend though that if you yourself don't read music and know how to play recorder, that you get them the other, less exciting book to go along with this so that they can go through that with the promise of being able to play the more exciting songs as they progress. I also like that this recorder can be pulled apart into sections for cleaning, the other one she has can't, it's all one piece, which makes it much more of a challenge to clean. But right now, I think she's actually feeling a bit less critical of the other book ) unexciting as it is. I do like that the music is printed in a bigger size, that the songs progress in order of difficulty, and that the music is something she likes. My daughter was pulling up the wrong finger placements on things for the parts she was trying to do without my help. This may confuse them because the manufacturer chose to mark the letter names for the notes in the notes themselves on the staff, but the letter name doesn't change just because it went up or down an octave. I have been stepping in and helping her a fair bit, and unless your kiddo can already read music, they may find the fingering chart to be confusing and may pick the wrong fingerings to practice for their particular note, seeing for example, as how the fingering changes for a D that is an octave lower on the staff. I would agree that the other book is definitely better when it comes to that. Then the simplified songs from the movie are given with coloring pages of the characters, My daughter felt like there's not enough explanations, and she said this is not a good book to try and teach yourself from. ![]() Then you get a page with fingering chart that shows the other notes on the treble clef above the finger placement chart drawing. There is a very minimalized explanation of fingering technique and some basic music reading-it is so stripped down I personally don't think it will be sufficient for many kiddos without assistance from a grown up. This book has about 8-9 measures each of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Aura Lee," "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," and "This Old Man" to practice these notes. For this Frozen book, there is only a very brief section that goes over 6 of the notes, which doesn't seem too bad, except the other book we have goes over several more. From mine, I went through and used the entire thing, and found it to do a good job of progressing at a comfortable pace for teaching both notes and music reading concepts, and I highly recommend it, with the caveat that depending on your child, they may have similar feelings of boredom with the songs and plainness of the pages. There was a ton of dissatisfaction with that book from her end. My daughter is 10, she was a year younger when she was trying to learn using "It's Recorder Time." She had my assistance with that, as it was the instrument she chose to learn during the brief period of time we were homeschooling, but she found the song selection to be so boring, and the lack of illustrations to be no fun whatsoever, and she was putting up so much passive aggressive resistance, that I quickly decided it was unessential and doubled down on the essentials that needed to be covered for standardized testing. I am going to be comparing this book to "It's Recorder Time," which I think does a better job of teaching the notes at a pace that is more manageable for a child who is either being taught or trying to go through it themselves. We actually both agree on this rating, and even have similar reasons for it. Review:This is a book I purchased for my daughter, who really loves Frozen a lot, because since I took a bottom line position of "if you expect me to pay for guitar lessons you need to show me you can pull out the discipline by finishing learning the recorder," I figured it would be the decent thing for me to do to buy her a book geared more towards her interests. Date:Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017
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