Harry Potter Selections

I bought this lovely recorder and book for my grandson. The recorder is surprisingly good quality and the music is beautiful. What I did find interesting about the book is that the songs contain many challenging notes beginners find confusing when first learning the recorder and is not a beginner recorder book. As a beginner recorder player, I even felt challenged learning to distinguish some of these flats. In saying this, there are much better beginner books that methodically help beginners learn the notes I would highly recommend parents buy with music that is fun and much easier to play. However, I found this book particularly helpful in learning flats and that has helped me move into other areas of learning recorder music.

Wie bei amerikanischen Noten für Anfänger sind die Notennamen in die Notenköpfe gedruckt. Das kann hilfreich aber auch störend sein. Leider sind in den Liedern sehr viele Halbtöne, was bei Anfängern noch nicht so gut funktioniert. Die Titelauswahl ist gut und bekannt. Bedingt empfehlenswert.

I've been playing the recorder for 20 years and recently got a tenor recorder. I needed to begin stretching my fingers to reach the lower notes, so I wanted to get a song book that was very simple with songs I was acquainted with but that weren't boring, and since I'm a big Harry Potter fan, this seemed perfect.Seeing some mixed reviews on the difficulty of the songs, I can say that for me, it was very easy. It's labelled in the corner as "Easy Recorder Songbook," and in those terms I believe there was a mix of difficulties. Some have no flats or sharps, some have only one, some have two, and some have three, but no more than that. Compared to other music books (like Les Mis music, for example), it wasn't very difficult. For someone relatively new to the recorder, it may take some time to play the half covered notes with ease and to recognize how to read which notes are labelled in the beginning of the music. Some of the music was very, very easy.Somebody else noted that they didn't recognize half the songs and were disappointed. Now, I've seen the movies many, many times, and recognized all the songs except one. Then, when I rewatched The Chamber of Secrets a few days later, I said, "Oh, there it is!" So I think it really depends on how much you pay attention to the music being played during movies. Also, many songs sound differently without the accompaniment, but I think this was a great selection of songs. For those wondering, "Hedwig's Theme" is, I believe, the song most widely known, and it's included and beautiful.All in all, this book suited my purposes exactly. There are some songs that are very easy that I can play to warm up, and then I can move to the more challenging songs to work on stretching my fingers to play my tenor recorder. There are only 7 songs in the book, so I play through all of them. For a kid, I think it would be the perfect amount of music to get them started without making it too overwhelming. As someone else stated, they also have 7 pages of easy instructive guides that including holding the recorder, understanding the music, a couple non-Harry Potter practice songs, and a complete fingering chart.

Creo que a mi hija le encantará....ya seguiré editando cuando lo tenga ella,y pueda ver el resultado de las canciones.A priori,se ve bien explicado y completo..

Les portées et notes sont énormes ce qui oblige à tourner les pages sans arrêt.Les transcriptions sont justes mais pas pour autant les plus simple qu'on pourrait faire pour la Flute.Pas vraiment pour débutant.