Firstly I'd just like to say thanks for the help people have given me with a few questions recently. Hopefully as I become more experienced I'll be able to reciprocate!
I've recently started playing in a recorder group. I belong to the SRP also. There is a safety in numbers at the SRP and if I am solo on one line within the smaller group (I tend to play treble) I have issues with timings. This may be due to the fact that my main instrument is the piano and I've always kept in time with myself!!
Are there any books with accompanying CD which would help me with my timings or any other suggestions for learning to play like this. Sometimes listening to the other parts helps, sometimes it puts me off if off-beat with each other.
Many thanks!
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There are a fair number of music minus one type things for recorder out there.
Dowani do publications which have the CD with the accompaniment at three speeds, so you can build up to where you want to be. These tend to be only single works in each book though (e.g. a single sonata).
Schott have a series called Baroque Recorder Anthology - now four volumes availabe (here is a link to volume 1). Each comes with a CD, and they move steadily up the grades so you can start at the level you are happiest with. I own volume three, I may just be about to buy volume four now I see that it has been published
Recorder Music Mail can probably help you out too - I don't immediately see a "with CD" category, but there could well be one
Dowani do publications which have the CD with the accompaniment at three speeds, so you can build up to where you want to be. These tend to be only single works in each book though (e.g. a single sonata).
Schott have a series called Baroque Recorder Anthology - now four volumes availabe (here is a link to volume 1). Each comes with a CD, and they move steadily up the grades so you can start at the level you are happiest with. I own volume three, I may just be about to buy volume four now I see that it has been published
Recorder Music Mail can probably help you out too - I don't immediately see a "with CD" category, but there could well be one
QUOTE(Maizie @ Jan 24 2012, 01:36 PM) 
There are a fair number of music minus one type things for recorder out there.
Dowani do publications which have the CD with the accompaniment at three speeds, so you can build up to where you want to be. These tend to be only single works in each book though (e.g. a single sonata).
Schott have a series called Baroque Recorder Anthology - now four volumes availabe (here is a link to volume 1). Each comes with a CD, and they move steadily up the grades so you can start at the level you are happiest with. I own volume three, I may just be about to buy volume four now I see that it has been published
Recorder Music Mail can probably help you out too - I don't immediately see a "with CD" category, but there could well be one
Thanks Maizie...some great ideas there. I feel a little shopping trip coming on!!
It may just be down to being relatively new to ensemble playing.
Even if you are pretty adept at playing on your own or another instrument it's not unusual to find keeping track in an ensemble difficult.
Hopefully you do play in time on the piano though if timing is a problem for you it may make things a little more tricky to start with.
Even if you are pretty adept at playing on your own or another instrument it's not unusual to find keeping track in an ensemble difficult.
Hopefully you do play in time on the piano though if timing is a problem for you it may make things a little more tricky to start with.
QUOTE(sbhoa @ Jan 25 2012, 11:33 AM)
It may just be down to being relatively new to ensemble playing.
Even if you are pretty adept at playing on your own or another instrument it's not unusual to find keeping track in an ensemble difficult.
Hopefully you do play in time on the piano though if timing is a problem for you it may make things a little more tricky to start with.
Even if you are pretty adept at playing on your own or another instrument it's not unusual to find keeping track in an ensemble difficult.
Hopefully you do play in time on the piano though if timing is a problem for you it may make things a little more tricky to start with.
Agreed. I don't get to play viol in consort vey often and if I don't concentrate on it, my timing wanders (i.e. molto difficulto = rallentandissimo). I don't have this issue when singing in choirs.
Just for a bit of fun - not as serious a tool as the admirable Dowani editions - I have a book of "Celtic Music for the Recorder" with guitar accompaniment. It doesn't have separate accompaniment tracks, though. You have to turn down the L or R channel that the recorder is on to leave only the guitar audible.
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