Activity 4: Playing with Appropriate Techniques
1. Every instrument has specific techniques to be applied while playing. For example, for strings there is bowing, plucking, strumming, fingering; and for wind, there is tonguing, blowing and fingering.
2. All the techniques when well applied ensure good tone quality.
How To Produce a Good Tone on The Descant Recorder
Blow gently into the descant recorder as you make the sound ‘du’ with the tongue. This is referred to as tonguing and it helps to produce a clear sound.
Do not blow too hard into the recorder because it will make a high pitch sound.
If you are having trouble producing a sound after lots of practice, clean your recorder. Cover the air hole below the mouthpiece and blow in hard.
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