Moral of the video: our lovely Sarah wasn't born a master recorder player... she had to work to become one. And that's a lesson that applies to many different pursuits, I think.
I appreciate your humility while listening to your older recordings. Musicians are humans, and humans make mistakes. As a student, it validates my experience. I'm invigorated. Thanks for sharing.
I was impressed by how insightful and open you were about your "former self" - if only we could all react so openly to the way we used to be and what we've learned over time. Thank you for being so candid and reacting with your usual humor. It was a pleasure!
You are not only entertaining but inspirational! Your playing is good, your comments insightful and your facial expressions priceless! thank you for all you do for music and musicians!
I have a hard enough time listening to myself on a looper. Listening to older recordings of myself would freak me out. You handle this better than I ever could!
This was such a lovely video! I particularly enjoyed your reflection about 'the concert that felt bad but actually sounds ok on the recording' sometimes we get so in our heads!!
Hey fabulous video, lots of songs to check out. I just want to say that I feel like we’re getting a much more nuanced insight into you know, your more complicated emotions and worries and it’s really nice! To know that all musicians do have worries and “tendencies” etc and just our human worries about life. Love your work.
I am so glad I found you on UA-cam as a child I have played the flute piano and the soprano recorder. Since adulthood I have only sung and forgot all about notes. Since November of last year I lost 80% of my total vision and I was trying to find a hobby that doesn't require much eyesight. This week I bought an alto recorder. Looking for some inspiration on how to do this again I came across your channel. I totally understand where are you explain the nasal and too much air part. Your earlier instruction videos with the notes are slightly difficult for me to watch since there is hardly any contrast in the background and the letters. Making a screenshots of it all helps. Thank you for helping me out in this difficult part of my life! ❤️❤️❤️
I needed this video, having graduated a year ago! Just coming to terms properly with the ideas of "hey, music's more than the notes", and "what do I want listeners to understand".
I appreciate this video so much! It is so hard to be kind to ourselves and doing that on camera takes so much vulnerability. I also went to school for music and I am still healing from a lot of insecurities that festered during that time. I am trying to be kind to myself too.
Great video, nice perspective. I’m a recovering flutist learning to be a recorder player and I understand what you say about playing the recorder too much like a flute. Now I feel there’s hope for me yet!
Hearing how I've emotionally changed is usually my biggest takeaway, and I really related to how that stuck out to you. I like your more refined, confident, and relaxed playing now. You did keep the pleasant awkwardness that makes your channel and playing a bit more enjoyable. On a side note, I think that first CD didn't work because the dye in writables fades over time. It will happen to the others at some point if you don't rerecord them.
Ha ha! Just so you know, Sarah: Those pained expressions you make listening to your old stuff, are practically the same ones I find myself making when looking back at cringey moments in my own past. But it's fun (AND instructive!) -- the looking-back. Right? ;) Love ya! Thanks for being here! You're the most dedicated, friendliest, and most personable recorder instructor on UA-cam. :)
CD's *are* digital. Just that a lot of CD-R are not ageing well. So consider reading in yhe music before the discs totally stop to read. The CD player is slow because it's fighting to read out yhe data, struggling with read errors. It can get away with some read errors for the music - but not for the index of where the individual tracks starts. Edit: a really good CD or DVD writer is better than a normal CD player to read out data from old disks. Especially since many CD-R disks reflects less than a pressed CD - something a CD burner is designed to handle but plays with the margins for a CD player.
Yep I can second this - I lost a lot of my old work because I didn't realise that CR-Rs degrade over time, some as new as 10 years old have stopped reading properly... :-(
@@TheOrphicCreative There are multiole quality levels. Both for the paint the laser burns through and the paint (or actual plastic layer) on the top that protects the recording.
Cheap disks has the base plastic disk. On top, there is a paint layer to burn away. On top of that, is the metal film that reflects. And for the cheap disks, there is one more paint layer - with any text etc. So only a paint layer on upper side that protects from scratches. That's why special CD marker pends are sold. Felt tip to not give mechanical pressure. And special chemicals to not disolve the paint layer.
@@TheOrphicCreative Did you try to find best available DVD writer (the better the merrier) when trying to recover the data? Multi-layer DVD burners are way better to focus the light through scratched surfaces. And they support reading weaker reflections than a CD reader. And they often have mechanical improvements too to be able to better track when writing - and so also be better at tracking when reading. I have an Asus BD burner that have managed quite well to read disks many other readers fails with.
@@perwestermark8920 I only had access to one drive, but it was brand new with support for the latest multi-layer discs. Some of them I was able to recover by running them multiple times. But the problem was that back in the day I had no money so I just bought whatever discs were cheapest 😅 Anyway, I did manage to get a lot of my music back, but some was unfortunately beyond saving.
Trovo che sei una grandissima artista perché c'è passione, disciplina e grande umiltà nel tuo amore per la musica. Sono d'accordo in tutto con te cara. La velocità nevrotica , che sembra essere la caratteristica moderna del flauto barocco oggi, non è tutto. C'è la MUSICA e l'ANIMA da mettere in quella velocità tanto agognata. Anche la velocità deve avere un senso e non solo un esercizio fine a se stesso. Grazie
Sarah, you are unconscionably brave doing this post. Old recordings can indeed sound unnerving. I hear friends' recordings of myself playing in past pub sessions and outdoor gigs; some of them sound fine, and others sound flippin' 'orrible. Psychologically, whether it's me or not, it always feels like it's me who's cocking it up. It is valuable, though, to identify a genuine mistake. Instrumental tuning particularly; not every whistle or recorder likes playing in cold open air, and outdoor sessions or gigs show that up readily. Audiences don't seem to notice fluffs too readily, but lots of folks notice bad tuning, especially on high instruments. You're a hot player, with a great sense of humour. More, more, more, fair Sarah! 😃🎶
I love this! Especially the parts about enjoying playing the pieces, I tend to be very serious too, but now in my late 50s I am a lot more relaxed while playing. I also love the part where you talt about the air flow. This is very important to me. There are so many technically brilliant recorderplayers around, but hearing a free open airflow is more seldom. To me the airflow is more important than the finger techniques, to me the musicality lays in the tone and not in the fingers. Its almost like when a violinplayer plays a whole Bach sonata without vibrato. Sounds really strange and kind of flat.
I'm sorry Sarah, but your uncomfortable face while listening to yourself and the effort trying not to be so uncomfortable just cracks me up. Thank you for sharing!
Just playing the notes is a bit like the acting thing of say your words and do not bump in to the furniture. It's a case of how the music communicates to others its so easy too be harsh on ones own playing. I guess it's a journey of improvement. One persons perfect performance may not be another persons. Great videos!!
I need to know how you went from the nasally tone of the past to the sweet tone of now 😁 I liked listening to you from the past and seeing the progression
In all honestly, listening was the most important part! I used to be so focussed on hitting the notes, and not how they actually sounded. Getting to know my airflow and thinking of blowing warmand cold air helped a lot, as did playing loads of early music 😊
I just watched an interview with a rapper from Hongkong, they gave him fancy flutes and now I'm here. But honestly, after watching this I hate the recorder even more than before. Still entertaining tho
Hi Sarah! As an aside, might I inquire about your metal recorder at position 8:46 in the video? Who makes this one? Are there other metal recorders out there? Did you like it? Thank you!
@@Team_Recorder Ah! Thank you for that, Sarah! But ARE there any recorders made of metal, and would something like that sound okay, do you reckon? After all, the transverse flute seems to have evolved in that direction for use in modern compositions...
Moral of the video: our lovely Sarah wasn't born a master recorder player... she had to work to become one.
And that's a lesson that applies to many different pursuits, I think.
I appreciate your humility while listening to your older recordings. Musicians are humans, and humans make mistakes. As a student, it validates my experience. I'm invigorated. Thanks for sharing.
That's great to hear, Jorge! Yes, mistakes are valuable and essential, and we should all make them in pursuit of learning!
I was impressed by how insightful and open you were about your "former self" - if only we could all react so openly to the way we used to be and what we've learned over time. Thank you for being so candid and reacting with your usual humor. It was a pleasure!
Thank you so much Sarah for sharing this! It really helps to see that EVERYBODY has to work hard... :)
Seeing that last performance, I get why your tenor was in bad shape now 😂
Loved this video btw! So fun listening to younger Sarah!
Hahaaa I know, after this piece and Gets it didn't stand a chance 😅
You are not only entertaining but inspirational! Your playing is good, your comments insightful and your facial expressions priceless!
thank you for all you do for music and musicians!
I have a hard enough time listening to myself on a looper. Listening to older recordings of myself would freak me out.
You handle this better than I ever could!
This was such a lovely video! I particularly enjoyed your reflection about 'the concert that felt bad but actually sounds ok on the recording' sometimes we get so in our heads!!
Exactly! Sometimes a bit of time and distance really makes a difference!
Thank you so much Sarah.
Hey fabulous video, lots of songs to check out. I just want to say that I feel like we’re getting a much more nuanced insight into you know, your more complicated emotions and worries and it’s really nice! To know that all musicians do have worries and “tendencies” etc and just our human worries about life. Love your work.
Aww thank you.
Love your channel. Thanks Sarah.
I am so glad I found you on UA-cam as a child I have played the flute piano and the soprano recorder. Since adulthood I have only sung and forgot all about notes. Since November of last year I lost 80% of my total vision and I was trying to find a hobby that doesn't require much eyesight. This week I bought an alto recorder. Looking for some inspiration on how to do this again I came across your channel. I totally understand where are you explain the nasal and too much air part. Your earlier instruction videos with the notes are slightly difficult for me to watch since there is hardly any contrast in the background and the letters. Making a screenshots of it all helps. Thank you for helping me out in this difficult part of my life! ❤️❤️❤️
I needed this video, having graduated a year ago! Just coming to terms properly with the ideas of "hey, music's more than the notes", and "what do I want listeners to understand".
Thank you for sharing this.
🤣 just came across this on my fb…. that’s me next to you & Laura in the first picture🤣 🤪 love this video! Xx
Wow! This video was a blast from the past! It was interesting hearing your performances over the years :)
I appreciate this video so much! It is so hard to be kind to ourselves and doing that on camera takes so much vulnerability. I also went to school for music and I am still healing from a lot of insecurities that festered during that time. I am trying to be kind to myself too.
Great video, nice perspective. I’m a recovering flutist learning to be a recorder player and I understand what you say about playing the recorder too much like a flute. Now I feel there’s hope for me yet!
So this makes me feel nostalgic about my student years, this younger you.
Natural performer, with or without a recorder. Loved it!
Hearing how I've emotionally changed is usually my biggest takeaway, and I really related to how that stuck out to you. I like your more refined, confident, and relaxed playing now. You did keep the pleasant awkwardness that makes your channel and playing a bit more enjoyable. On a side note, I think that first CD didn't work because the dye in writables fades over time. It will happen to the others at some point if you don't rerecord them.
Ha ha! Just so you know, Sarah: Those pained expressions you make listening to your old stuff, are practically the same ones I find myself making when looking back at cringey moments in my own past. But it's fun (AND instructive!) -- the looking-back. Right? ;)
Love ya! Thanks for being here! You're the most dedicated, friendliest, and most personable recorder instructor on UA-cam. :)
Aww thank you
Thank you for sharing this xxx
This is your best YT video!!! you are amazing!! Beijinhos de Portugal!!
i love the piece of Luciano Berio, gesti.
CD's *are* digital. Just that a lot of CD-R are not ageing well. So consider reading in yhe music before the discs totally stop to read.
The CD player is slow because it's fighting to read out yhe data, struggling with read errors. It can get away with some read errors for the music - but not for the index of where the individual tracks starts.
Edit: a really good CD or DVD writer is better than a normal CD player to read out data from old disks. Especially since many CD-R disks reflects less than a pressed CD - something a CD burner is designed to handle but plays with the margins for a CD player.
Yep I can second this - I lost a lot of my old work because I didn't realise that CR-Rs degrade over time, some as new as 10 years old have stopped reading properly... :-(
@@TheOrphicCreative There are multiole quality levels. Both for the paint the laser burns through and the paint (or actual plastic layer) on the top that protects the recording.
Cheap disks has the base plastic disk. On top, there is a paint layer to burn away. On top of that, is the metal film that reflects. And for the cheap disks, there is one more paint layer - with any text etc. So only a paint layer on upper side that protects from scratches. That's why special CD marker pends are sold. Felt tip to not give mechanical pressure. And special chemicals to not disolve the paint layer.
@@TheOrphicCreative Did you try to find best available DVD writer (the better the merrier) when trying to recover the data? Multi-layer DVD burners are way better to focus the light through scratched surfaces. And they support reading weaker reflections than a CD reader. And they often have mechanical improvements too to be able to better track when writing - and so also be better at tracking when reading.
I have an Asus BD burner that have managed quite well to read disks many other readers fails with.
@@perwestermark8920 I only had access to one drive, but it was brand new with support for the latest multi-layer discs. Some of them I was able to recover by running them multiple times. But the problem was that back in the day I had no money so I just bought whatever discs were cheapest 😅 Anyway, I did manage to get a lot of my music back, but some was unfortunately beyond saving.
Trovo che sei una grandissima artista perché c'è passione, disciplina e grande umiltà nel tuo amore per la musica. Sono d'accordo in tutto con te cara. La velocità nevrotica , che sembra essere la caratteristica moderna del flauto barocco oggi, non è tutto. C'è la MUSICA e l'ANIMA da mettere in quella velocità tanto agognata. Anche la velocità deve avere un senso e non solo un esercizio fine a se stesso. Grazie
7:49 That was really beautiful. Heck w the teacher!!!
This was so lovely 🥰
Into cracked me up!!!! That was hilarious!!!
Sarah, you are unconscionably brave doing this post. Old recordings can indeed sound unnerving. I hear friends' recordings of myself playing in past pub sessions and outdoor gigs; some of them sound fine, and others sound flippin' 'orrible. Psychologically, whether it's me or not, it always feels like it's me who's cocking it up. It is valuable, though, to identify a genuine mistake. Instrumental tuning particularly; not every whistle or recorder likes playing in cold open air, and outdoor sessions or gigs show that up readily. Audiences don't seem to notice fluffs too readily, but lots of folks notice bad tuning, especially on high instruments.
You're a hot player, with a great sense of humour. More, more, more, fair Sarah! 😃🎶
Glad you can look at yourself....im a painter and hate ALL my works but yet they all sell....i love the baroque music
loved the video idea hahahahaha
Very brave! :) Entertaining and interesting.
"Music is a life-long journey. Music is a life-long journey."
I love this! Especially the parts about enjoying playing the pieces, I tend to be very serious too, but now in my late 50s I am a lot more relaxed while playing. I also love the part where you talt about the air flow. This is very important to me. There are so many technically brilliant recorderplayers around, but hearing a free open airflow is more seldom. To me the airflow is more important than the finger techniques, to me the musicality lays in the tone and not in the fingers. Its almost like when a violinplayer plays a whole Bach sonata without vibrato. Sounds really strange and kind of flat.
So good video you have made ❤️🎼🦋
I'm sorry Sarah, but your uncomfortable face while listening to yourself and the effort trying not to be so uncomfortable just cracks me up. Thank you for sharing!
Hi sarah! is that a new alto at 415
0:37: When did we get this slightly dark humor?
That was fun!👍😎
Just playing the notes is a bit like the acting thing of say your words and do not bump in to the furniture. It's a case of how the music communicates to others its so easy too be harsh on ones own playing. I guess it's a journey of improvement. One persons perfect performance may not be another persons. Great videos!!
It sounded great to me!
Your 'pain face' 💙😂
OMG the Telemann! Did he hate recorder players?
Your fire mixtape could've dropped in 2010?!
I need to know how you went from the nasally tone of the past to the sweet tone of now 😁 I liked listening to you from the past and seeing the progression
In all honestly, listening was the most important part! I used to be so focussed on hitting the notes, and not how they actually sounded. Getting to know my airflow and thinking of blowing warmand cold air helped a lot, as did playing loads of early music 😊
YEAH!!!! F-Bomb!!!!
You're so funny!
Nice lewitt mic
2:10 What funky staff you have
11:26, well if that's funky, hold my beer
12:15
I just watched an interview with a rapper from Hongkong, they gave him fancy flutes and now I'm here.
But honestly, after watching this I hate the recorder even more than before.
Still entertaining tho
Hi Sarah! As an aside, might I inquire about your metal recorder at position 8:46 in the video? Who makes this one? Are there other metal recorders out there? Did you like it? Thank you!
It’s a low whistle in D, by Chieftain 😊
@@Team_Recorder Ah! Thank you for that, Sarah! But ARE there any recorders made of metal, and would something like that sound okay, do you reckon? After all, the transverse flute seems to have evolved in that direction for use in modern compositions...
Just so you know, the timestamps in the video say 2021 and not 2012 on the last one.
Fixed! 😘
CDs are digital but we know what you meant 😂
spoilers alert at 9:40
(just joking)
I'll bet your high school boyfriend will hear about your request and send you the old recording, unless he is a bad person.
More than one recorder I find horrible!!!
honestly ... the modern music pieces ... were awful IMHO (not as performance, but it's not my piece of cake).
In this video you look older than in usual😅
But younger you was better as me now 🤣
Glrrrf argg what a comment but I guess in every new video I’m older no?
@@Team_Recorder lol i'm older as you. 😭 I must do a new playmobil video. With playmobil we are always the same 🤣
@@Team_Recorder Well, I'd say mature! You definitely look more at ease and confident when compared to the serious, past Sarah.
@@Team_Recorder I've seen you in a few early, pre-Team Recorder concert videos, and you look much younger now.