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🏖️ Ages 6–8 · Your First Recorder

RecorderPals

Play a note, and Piper flies to it.

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.

The songs are all old enough to be free for anyone: Hot Cross Buns — an old English street-seller’s rhyme; traditional, in the public domain · Merrily We Roll Along — a nineteenth-century American song that shares its opening with Mary Had a Little Lamb; in the public domain · Au Clair de la Lune — a French folk song, sung since at least the 1700s; in the public domain · Mary Had a Little Lamb — words from an American poem of 1830, sung to a traditional nineteenth-century tune; in the public domain.

  • Piperflies to your note
  • Breezeblow soft
  • Shellycover the holes
  • Tidedots to notes
🎵 Play with Piper
For grown-ups

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.

The songs are all old enough to be free for anyone: Hot Cross Buns — an old English street-seller’s rhyme; traditional, in the public domain · Merrily We Roll Along — a nineteenth-century American song that shares its opening with Mary Had a Little Lamb; in the public domain · Au Clair de la Lune — a French folk song, sung since at least the 1700s; in the public domain · Mary Had a Little Lamb — words from an American poem of 1830, sung to a traditional nineteenth-century tune; in the public domain.

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.

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Meet the cast — the characters who teach this

Each one stands for an idea you’ll practice. Tap a character to read their illustrated story.

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