Technology as a complement to the teaching-learning process of the recorder in the primary education stage

Abstract

Many countries incorporate the study of the recorder into the teaching of music in primary education. The students have a group class per week of no more than one hour in duration, being a complex that performs a real individualization of the learning process. After the collective class, the students have to practice at home alone, with the responsibility for their progress in the study falling on themselves.This work proposes the inclusion of a digital tool as a complement to the deficiencies that the teaching-learning process of the instrument presents, as well as a proposal for a study protocol to be followed by the student in their autonomous progress.TThe objective of the computer application is to offer the possibility of listening to the musical piece, showing the score, recording the performances and, finally, providing references and data on the mistakes made, both to the students and to the teaching figure. This information, until now unknown, causes the traditional teaching model to be completely transformed. After carrying out the inclusion and evaluation of both proposals in an educational context, positive conclusions have been obtained that show the substantial improvement of the teaching-learning process of this musical instrument.