A free interactive recorder teacher in your browser. It plays each new note, guides the fingers to the right holes (AR Guiding Rings™ on your fingers, with a camera), and listens as you play. Want more songs? Add a song pack.
You need a real recorder: Recorder Hero listens as you play.
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Three steps for every new note. All you need is a recorder and a computer, tablet or phone with a microphone. With a camera too, AR Guiding Rings™ on your own fingers guide each one to the right hole.
Recorder Hero plays the new note, so you know how it should sound.
A chart shows which holes to cover, and through the camera the dots are painted right on your own fingers.
It listens as you play. The right note gets a cheer; a wrong one shows which finger to fix.
Choose Free play and play anything you like on your recorder. Each note shows big, with its fingering, and is written on a staff as you go.
Recorder Hero is a free, browser-based app for learning the recorder (the soprano or descant recorder played at school). It listens to you play through the microphone, shows the fingering for each note and tells you which finger to fix, from your first note to whole songs.
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Use the notes you've learned in a game: you play your real instrument, and the game listens. No instrument at hand? There's a controller on the screen.
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Play17 notes and 4 song lessons, starting with B, A and G, the three easiest, and climbing from there. Every lesson ends with a short tune to play. Made for children learning at school or at home, and for grown-ups starting out.
Practice each song note by note, then play it through in time. Recorder Hero goes at your own pace, and slows down when a note is tricky.
Practice at home, without you standing by every note. Between lessons and in class, too.
Yes: Free play is in the lessons menu. Play anything on the recorder: each note shows with its fingering and goes onto a staff, songs from the library are recognized as you play them, a band can play along, and you can hear what you played. It's free, like the lessons.
A soprano (also called descant) recorder, the usual school recorder, with baroque (English) fingering. Most school recorders are baroque: look for a double hole at the bottom and a small "B" on the instrument. German-fingering recorders work too: switch the game to German fingering in its menu, in one tap (the fingering chart on this site switches the same way).
Yes: every lesson and the songs in the song library are free, and there's nothing to install. If you'd like more songs, there are song packs to buy (Christmas carols, children's songs from around the world, national anthems and more), each with a free song to try. Buy once, no subscription. Each pack comes with its songbook, a PDF ebook.
No. Everything works without one, and your stars stay in this browser. A free account is optional: it keeps your stars and progress, so you can carry on from any screen (computer, tablet or phone). Accounts are for grown-ups: children play with a parent's or teacher's account.
No. The microphone and the camera are only used on your own device, right in the browser, to hear the notes and see the fingers. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere.
Children from about 6, and grown-ups starting out. Younger children enjoy it with a grown-up nearby for the first lesson.
Yes: on a computer, a tablet or a phone with a microphone, in Chrome, Edge or Safari. With the camera on, stand the tablet or phone up on a table, so it can see your hands.
Blow gently, like a soft "doo", and make sure every covered hole is fully sealed with the pads of your fingers. Low notes need the gentlest breath of all. A quiet room helps too.
Short reads for curious players and parents.
The first lesson takes five minutes: you'll play your first note, B, right away.
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