Recorder Hero

Music games

Music games for your recorder

Every note learned in the lessons becomes a power in a game. Here your real instrument is the controller: the game listens as you play, and practicing turns into an adventure.

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Practice that feels like play

  • The notes you know

    Each game asks only for the notes you've learned in the lessons. Every game is practice, and every new lesson gives you more to play with.

  • Your instrument is the controller

    Play a note and something happens: a sparkle flies, an orca answers, the potato runs through the maze. Ears and fingers learn without it feeling like homework.

  • Mistakes are gentle

    A miss is a wobble or a fresh start, never a scolding. Try again, and it sounds better every time.

  • Short rounds

    A level takes a few minutes: a reward after a lesson, or a warm-up before one.

The games

Orcarina

Orcarina

Dive into a deep blue sea where a young orca talks in whistles. Answer her on your instrument, learn her words, decode her messages and make music together, over three episodes.

You practice

  • Listening and playing back
  • Remembering short tunes
  • Notes in the right order

Play with: your recorderwhistlingthe controller

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Jelly Stars

Jelly Stars

Out in space, grumpy jellies drift down in rows. Steer the potato's little rocket with your notes and send sparkles up: every jelly a sparkle reaches turns into a happy star. Their grumpy bubbles only make the rocket wobble.

You practice

  • Switching notes quickly
  • Tonguing: doo-doo-doo
  • Playing louder and softer

Play with: your recorderwhistlingthe controller

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Tune Tag

Tune Tag

A garden maze full of note dots. Be the potato or Quill the owl: four notes steer you up, down, left and right, and playing louder makes you faster. Collect every note while the others try to tag you; a tag just sends you back to the start.

You practice

  • Finding four notes fast
  • Changing notes cleanly
  • A steady breath

Play with: your recorderwhistlingthe controller

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For grown-ups

  • Microphone only: the music games never use the camera, and nothing you play is recorded or sent.
  • Free with an account: a grown-up signs in once on this device, and the child plays.
  • No instrument at hand? Whistling works, and so does the controller on the screen.
  • In the browser, on a computer, a tablet or a phone: nothing to install.

New notes, new powers

Each lesson adds a note, and the games grow with you.

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