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How too play hot cross buns on recorder?

Here are the steps on how to play Hot Cross Buns using a recorder:

1. Hold the recorder with your right hand and the bell pointing upwards, and use left-hand fingers to cover holes and the right-hand thumb covering the thumb hole on the back.

2. First set of notes: cover right-hand hole 3 and left-hand holes 1,2,3,5

3. Second set of notes: move right-hand thumb from thumb hole and use it to cover right-hand hole 2 while retaining your left-hand fingering.

4. Third set of notes: move right-hand thumb back to cover thumb hole and remove left-hand finger 5

Below is the fingering chart for the song with the notes written below them.

| | H | O | T | C | R | O | S | B | U | N | S |

|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

| RH (right-hand) thumb 2 thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb|

| LH (left-hand) 1-2-3-5 1-2-3-5| 1-2-3|1-2-3-5|1-2-3|1-2-3|1-2-3-5|1-2-3|1-2-3-5|1-2-3|

Have fun playing Hot Cross Buns on your recorder!

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