If you play successively the middle and bottom B flat you should soon find the finger movements you must make become instinctive. If you are moving from middle B flat down to bottom B flat you must remember to add the bottom finger of the right hand otherwise the low B flat will be noticeably sharp. You must raise the bottom finger of the right hand to produce B flat in the second octave, the note we will also call middle B flat. If you finger low B flat and then 'pinch' the thumb, and tongue a little harder than for the low B flat, the note your recorder produces is A in the second octave and not B flat. Unfortunately, B flat is not one of them. There are quite a lot of notes in the two octaves that have this similarity. When we introduced A in the second octave of the treble you will have noticed that it had the same fingering as for low A but with the thumbhole slightly open. How To Tongue The Note B flat in the Second Octave Using the standard nomenclature, the fingering for second octave B flat, or for the enharmonic equivalent A sharp, is written X 1 2 3 4 6a 6b, where X indicates a pinched thumb or vented thumbhole. Below that we give the standard fingering for this note, the fingering you would use under normal circumstances. Click on the play button in the Sibelius score to hear it. The enharmonic equivalent of B flat is A sharp, the note that has the same fingering as B flat. The eighteenth note we learn, B flat in the second octave on the treble (alto) recorder, lies above the first leger line above the treble clef. This section gives advice on the following topics: Home :: resources :: music theory & history :: recorder lessons :: music dictionary :: physics of musical instruments :: e-monographsĬontents :: help page :: first things first :: fingering charts :: glossary of recorder terms :: Quick C :: Quick F :: comments or queries?į :: F#/G b :: G :: G#/A b :: A :: B b/A# :: B :: C :: C#/D b :: D :: D#/E b :: E :: Third Octave Dolmetsch Online - Recorder Method Online Treble/Alto B flat / A sharp
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