🏖️ Ages 6–8 · Your First Recorder
RecorderPals
Play a real recorder with Piper the sandpiper — play a note and Piper flies up and down to your note, and shows you exactly which holes to cover. If it squeaks, Piper tells you why — you blew too hard, or a hole isn't covered. Learn Hot Cross Buns and watch the music score peel back from dots to real notes as you play by ear first.
Let's play
Play a song Play your recorder and Piper flies to your note — learn Hot Cross Buns and more! My playing See the notes you can play and how far your music score has peeled back.
Meet the friends
- Piper — flies up and down to the note you play, and shows you the right fingers
- Breeze — reminds you to blow soft and warm so it never squeaks
- Shelly — the fingers — cover the holes all the way for a clear note
- Tide — the score that peels back from dots to real notes as you learn
🔒 Piper listens right here on your device. Your playing is never recorded, never sent anywhere, and never saved — RecorderPals only remembers the notes you've played, so you can see how far you've come.
Meet the cast — the characters who teach this
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Piper (Hero) flies up and down to the note you play, and shows you the right fingering (play-by-ear, embodied) -
Breeze blow soft and warm so the recorder never squeaks (breath control) -
Shelly cover the holes all the way for a clear note (a full, soft seal) -
Tide the score that peels back from dots to real notes as you play by ear