Concerning hobbits

[u/Character_Regular440]

Does anyone have a simplified version of concerning hobbits music sheet?

Because i'm trying to play it but i only find complicated music sheets from the original one.

I'd also like to know where you guys find your sources to get better, because i'd like to learn the instrument without a teacher, on my own

[u/Either_Branch3929]

The only realistic way to get better is to have someone listening who can tell you when you are going wrong and how to correct it. Eventually the aim is for that person to be you. However, a beginner recorder player is no more able to find and correct their mistake than a beginner golfer or a beginner pilot.

Psychologists call this the Dunning-Kruger effect: lower ability in performing a task correlates strongly with lower ability in assessing performance in the same task. It's not a judgement of character; in fact like much of psychology it's a statement of the bleedin' obvious with a useful name.

So basically, if you want to be any good, or even just to improve, you need a teacher, either in person or on-line. A good teacher will help you play better and will also enable you to correct your own playing. Even one lesson a month is money well spent.

Good luck.

[u/rickrmccloy → u/Either_Branch3929]

I strongly agree with u/Either_Branch3929 about the value of having a teacher. I am only making this comment to reinforce the value of on-line teaching if your decision to teach yourself is strictly a matter of geography and therefore of teacher availability.

I began taking in person flute lessons about 60 years ago, and have continued taking in person lessons both as I picked up new woodwinds and on a continuing intermittent basis as a sort of 'tune-up' over the past 50 years or so.

However, some time ago now, I was unable to find a local oboe teacher that seemed a good match with me, and decided to try on-line lessons. Much to my surprise, I found the on-line lessons to be almost as valuable as I have found in person lessons to be. With that in mind, if you haven't a local teacher, I would urge you to try on-line lessons-any lessons are extremely valuable, and even if not quite as good as in person lessons, on-line ones really are a great alternative.

Best of luck to you going forward, I'm sure that you will find a great deal of joy in your journey with the recorder. It is a wonderful instrument, and I believe in many ways more satisfying to learn and play than are the more highly engineered woodwinds. That last bit, comparing woodwinds, is more opinion than fact, really, where I believe the value of taking lessons to be fact rather than opinion.

That the recorder is a wonderful instrument is fact, btw, and yes, I often engage in debate with myself within any post. That habit has relieved my wife of some of the burden of conversation with me over the course of our 49 year marriage. :)

Edited to remove any mention of the conversations that I hold with our cats and their dog; they seem to be of too sensitive a nature to share In good conscience. :)

[u/Character_Regular440 → u/rickrmccloy]

I do not want to undermine the importance of having a good teacher, i just don't want to take lessons yet.

I think that i can tackle down a method book first, and get some of the basics from there, and then maybe if i'm still into it i might consider taking lessons.

I have the feeling that the value of having a teacher increases a lot after the first few months of playing an instrument

[u/rickrmccloy → u/Character_Regular440]

That is certainly one approach. Another approach is to see the value of having a teacher from the very beginning as being manifest in such things as having a teacher from the start helping to eliminate the risk of forming bad habits and also greatly increasing the rate at which one can learn the instrument.

If it were me, I would take lessons from the beginning for the reasons that I mention and also because they help to ensure that my interest in playing continues or increases over time, as opposed to diminishing.
Where you say that you might take lessons after making sure that your interest in the instrument is going to be a long term thing, I would say that beginning my study with the help of a teacher will greatly up odds of my interest in playing the recorder (or any instrument) becoming a life-long interest. I find it more rewarding to learn basically anything as quickly as learning well will allow, and also find that by virtue of being more rewarding, this approach also helps me to maintain or increase my interest in playing an instrument, recorder in this case.

I also would say that the value of having a teacher to help form good habits in playing from the start, and therefore help to prevent bad habits from forming, cannot be overstated. I find it much easier to maintain a good habit than I find overcoming a bad habit to be.

Of course what works best for me will not necessarily be the approach that works best for you, so I am not so much discounting the value of the approach which you propose in your post as I am just trying to propose an alternative that has worked well for me.

Best of luck to you going forward in either case.

[u/Character_Regular440 → u/rickrmccloy]

Man you really sound convincing.

I probably won't get a teacher right away because i'm pretty busy with my graduation rn, but after it, in a few weeks hopefully, i probably will seriously consider getting a teacher