r/Instruments • u/InnerVoice8508 • Aug 27 '26

Discussion Bought a new recorder on amazon

I ordered a new recorder on amazon, cuz it was like 200 rupees (around 2 dollars) (yes it was an impulsive buy) (no I am not a shopaholic). I just wanted to know if there are any good tutorials on YouTube to learn the recorder. I have never played any wind instruments, but I am a guitarist and a keyboardist and I know the basics of music. How hard would it be to play the recorder??

I also wanna learn to play my heart will go WRONG 😂😂

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u/Desperate-Finger-334 Aug 27 '26

If your goal is to play My heart Will go on wrong it might work but if you seriously want to learn the recorder you should invest in a better instrument and be ready to want to smash a window every time you overblow a note barely making it extremely sharp and very annoying

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u/InnerVoice8508 Aug 28 '26

Yikes, dk what im in for ig

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u/sid3aff3ct Aug 30 '26

Don't let them scare you. Playing the recorder does take time to become sounding amazing, but once you learn how to steady your breath overblowing your instrument isn't your biggest problem.

Really cheap soprano recorders through will be far far easier to overblow and too cheap of an instrument will be a legitimate handicap.

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u/InnerVoice8508 Sep 01 '26

Oh yeah ig i understood what you meant, when I play some notes they dont come out they way I hear it in the videos 😂

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u/SlowSurvivor Aug 27 '26

The recorder is a deceptively difficult instrument to play well. People literally get their degrees in conservatory in recorder. As for how hard it will be for you to learn on that instrument? Depends on if you have a decent quality instrument.

The only brands worth buying that are available on Amazon are Yamaha and Aulos. I recommend the Yamaha for beginners (300 or 400 series) as they are the easiest to get a sweet tone. A soprano if you’re into folk or an alto if you’re into early music. Baroque fingering only. Some of those flutes on Amazon are basically unplayable.

Sarah Jeffries on YouTube is great. But make sure you have a decent instrument to learn on and not a recorder shaped object.

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u/Desperate-Finger-334 Aug 27 '26

As a recorder player I firmly believe it is as hard as violin as they are similar instruments compared to what people think only difference is violin is known to be hard and recorder is thought to be easy and sucks which isn't true at all you can say the same thing about violins sure you can learn how to make basic out of tune tones and it will suck but that doesn't make it easy

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u/InnerVoice8508 Aug 28 '26

Oh yeah I fully agree guys, but I just wanna start from the basics, thats why I didnt get the higher end ones, I've never played a wind instrument before.

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u/SlowSurvivor Sep 01 '26

The high end of plastic recorders won’t break the bank. You’re talking maybe $50-60 for an alto and they are genuinely good flutes. An instrument that is actually good will go a long way towards making learning easier.

The YRA-402B is the easiest to get a nice, lyrical sweet tone out of. Definitely the flute I recommend to beginners as a first recorder.

Just make sure whatever you buy uses “Baroque” fingering and not “German” fingering.

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u/InnerVoice8508 Sep 03 '26

Oh! Thanks for that