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The Arts Unit @home Art Bites – Playing the recorder – 3. Pease Pudding Hot

[music playing]

SUSAN SUKKAR: Hello everybody are you ready for your recorder lesson today? Because you you're doing so well, we're going to learn a new note. So we've already learned B, A, and G.

Now we're going to learn another note higher than B called C. Now, this is a little bit tricky because your first two fingers have to do a dance. So from B to C, it should be a swap, a little dance between the first two fingers. Can you see B to C, B to C.

Be careful that you don't do this-- B, C, B, C. That's wrong and really hard to do, too. So C is played with the second finger, the long finger on the second hole, B, C. And the thumb just stays at the back, covering the hole at the back.

Let's practise that together. Let's play some B's, four B's and then four C's. And we'll go backwards and forwards in practise. Play along with me, four B's and then four C's. Let's go-- 3, 4.

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Did you manage that? Let's try it again. This time let's do two each so that we're doing the swap more quickly. Ready-- 1, 2.

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Well done. Let's start at low G and come up to C. So we're going to G, A, B, C, and then come back down again. That's tricky.

Let's go, starting on a low G, so thumb on the back, three fingers. And we're going to come up by steps to C. Let's play together nice and slowly, 2 beats-- 1, 2.

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Let's repeat from the top down.

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Well played everyone. Now I have a tune to teach you which has been around forever, for a very, very long time, hundreds of years. And it comes from England and it's called 'Pease Pudding Hot.' Now this tune uses the note C halfway through the tune and it goes like this.

[playing 'Pease Pudding Hot']

You may have heard it before. These are the words. Put your fingers on your recorder follow my fingers. Don't blow, but just listen to the words.

[singing] Pease pudding hot. Pease pudding cold. Pease pudding in the pot, nine days old.

Oh my goodness, image eating something that was nine days old. Second half of this song goes like this.

[singing] Some like it hot. Some like it cold. Some like it in the pot, nine days old.

Oh, wow.

Did you notice that that tune repeated itself? That's very handy for us as musicians because once you've learned that first phrase, you just repeat it and you finish the whole song. So let's try playing that together, and we're starting on the note G, which is a thumb at the back and three fingers. We're to play that first phrase--

[singing] Pease pudding hot.

Let's go, ready, and--

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Let's do that again, and--

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Now the next part of the phrase has a nice rest, which is handy for us, because we can use that rest to get ready to go to C, which is our new note, B swapping those two fingers to C. Let's see if you can play that first phrase and the second phrase together. Ready, and--

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Swap.

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Good. Back to the first phrase.

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So we start and finish on G. Let's put it all together, those two parts of the phrase, and--

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Swap.

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Back to G.

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Then we do the whole thing again from the beginning.

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And that was the tune 'Pease Pudding Hot.' Let's try it all again, whole tune, two phrases together.

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Swap.

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Back to G.

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And again.

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Swap.

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Well done. That's a much harder tune and we've learned so far. So if you're keeping up, you're doing very well indeed.

See you next time.