Sometimes teaching days develop a theme. One day this week it was ”accept the blips”.
On the recorder, if one isn’t precise enough moving their fingers from one note to another, there can be an extra sound in between the desired notes.
One way to avoid hearing those blips is to play every note slightly short and move the fingers during the silence between. Beginners often do this, consciously or not.
But that way one can never play a smooth, singing melodic line. So one needs to practise blowing a continuous airstream from one note to the next, and accept that the blips will become audible. And work on finger precision. Anyway, lots of blips this week. :)
