Harry Potter for Recorder

I bought this for my daughter, a recorder beginner, to try and persuade her to play more. It is, as another reviewer says, written more for the intermediate player.However, be aware that each note printed, rather than being solid black of the crotchet or quaver for example, has the name of the note inside, so does not necessarily support those trying to memorise notes!Great selection though.

Do not make the same mistake I did, this product does not include a recorder. 🤦🏻‍♀️

As with the Star Wars recorder book it is aimed more at an advanced recorder player rather than a class of children. However again a great recorder book if you love your Harry Potter music.

I didn't expect it to be for beginners, seen as I remember some of the music, however, the large print with notes written in makes it feels like it's intended for early in your recorder player career. Also there are actually only 15 pages of Harry Potter music which was a disappointment. There are 7 pages of how to read music, how to play the recorder, a fingering chart etc. as if it intends to give you everything you need to play the pieces, it really doesn't and it's a disservice to recorder players to present a book as if I give you all the fingerings you can play pieces.Let's look at Hedwig's Theme - which Team Recorder describes as deceptively difficult, due to big jumps and lots of sharps and flats. It's been rewritten in 3/4 time (from 6/8 time), which makes you wonder why they wasted space in the introduction showing what 6/8 time is. The transcriber did make the wise choice to use high Csharp not low Csharp in a few places, but also made 3 mistakes that I found. The range is low D to high F. Accidentals you need to know are Bflat (ok, that's an early one), Fsharp (also ok), but you also need to know high Csharp and high Eflat, two of the three notes on the recorder that don't use the thumb, so it takes more skill to play. The range of notes and the rhythms used in this piece places it around grade 2, but that high Eflat is first introduced in chromatic scales at Grade 3 - which is not at all the same as jumping to and from it.The other pieces are mostly harder, low Eflat (Dsharp) is commonly required, which is not an easy note, either to jump to or to switch to from low D as occurs in Hogwarts forever, low Aflat (Gsharp) also makes a regular appearance). Referring to Csharp as Dflat within the same piece also happens - which musically makes sense, but us confusing to inexperienced players. The rhythm in Hogwart's forever is not explained and some rhythm's Hogwart's March are tricky.Fawkes the Phoenix is probably the best pieces to start with, but the book is arrange chronologically.Overall, it is a mismatch as the playing level required doesn't need large print and letters printed in notes. Or the introduction. Sheet music is never cheap, but it would have save a but by not bothering with the introduction and using the space on the page effectively.Additionally it uses American music terms, fine, but may be confusing to an English player.

My daughter love it. Easy - for beginners.

Brilliant fun playing our favourite tunes from the films!

Has several of the themes in it, however it doesn't have the main theme from the HP films, which is the one that is played on a woodwind instrument and you hear all over the place. As this is the tune my kids were so desperate to learn I have to knock a star off for this blatant omission.

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