Help with recorder tabs

[Standarduser]

Im a guitar player, played for 2 years and can reproduce some songs from hearing. This song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXUm2YS-mM has some really beautiful flute playing which i would very like to produce, yet i dont have the "normal" flute but a recorder, so copying from what other people play wont work, and i dont know which holes are which notes, so i need tabs. I know that in piano and guitar you can produce a single note through strumming or hitting one string or a key. Now with the flute, it seems that you MUST always play some kind of chord. Can i in a flute play single notes, or because of the design i must play always chords? I know from the guitar that scales can run on every string from anywhere - but how you play scales on a recorder?


Thanks in advance.

[pied_piper]

When learning a new instrument, especially when switching from the string family to a wind instrument, it takes a different mindset. First, tabs for the guitar are more-or-less the equivalent of fingering charts for wind instruments. Second, the flute is a melody instrument while the guitar and piano are chordal instruments. Melody instruments (normally) play only one note at a time while chordal instruments can play multiple notes together. It's a slightly different approach. On the guitar and piano multiple fingers "down" produce multiple notes. On the flute, multiple fingers are required to play ONE note. It's all related to the way the instruments work.

Here's a link to a fingering chart for the recorder:
http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/recorder/

Try that and then come back with more questions!