Playalong with Tali! La Bikina Playalong video

New Playalong Video: La Bikina


Hey guys! I'm happy to share my playalong version for La Bikina by Rubén Fuentes (as performed by Luis Miguel), accompanied by eight people I found that look like me and also play the recorder. No big deal.

What's that cat doing on in the video, you're asking? Well, I'm excited to present RECORDER CHALLENGE NUMBER 1: I invite all you fine recorder players (I know you're out there!) to record yourself playing La Bikina and upload it to Facebook / Instagram / YouTube using the hashtag #labikinarecorder (so I can find you 🤓).

My favorite versions will be featured on my social-media channels.

This is great for recorder beginners who just want to play along with the song - Angelo and I made this karaoke version with the melody outlined, starring our fabulous cat, Mustafa-Moishe Spampinato Rubinstein.

🎵[Click here to download the sheet music and play-along!](https://www.talirecorderlessons.com/book-bundle)
(feel free to embellish and improvise over the melody, anything goes).

[Click Here To Watch The Original Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYhRowVNubc)

Stay safe, get your vaccine, we got this ❤️

~Tali

New video performance: A Horse Busy Transporting Grain (揚鞭催馬運糧忙) by Wei Xianzhong

Video Release: A Horse Busy Transporting Grain


Hey guys, here's the last video from our "Tal and Tali in China" series - this is "A Horse Busy Transporting Grain" (揚鞭催馬運糧忙), a bright and joyful Chinese song by Wei Xianzhong, performed with Tal Zilber.

The best part about traveling, many say, is living for a while as someone else in an alien culture, with different food, different habits, scenery, climate, sounds and signs. The tension between the completely unknown and the remotely familiar - that chicken soup that is almost like the one I used to eat at home - but with a totally new, undescribable twist, which I don't quite know where to place on my palate. The ability to be curious about everything - trying to give it a name, relate it to a memory, make sense of that contradictory feeling - that is, to me, the best thing about touring.

This piece threw me right into that alternate reality. To my western-music accustomed ears, it sounds like a transformed and reconstructed version of such familiar music phrases. It made me think of what the Sopranino Concerto in C would sound like if Vivaldi was born in China. And of course the answer is - nothing like this at all. I wish I could hear this music through someone else's ears.

I hope you enjoy this, and looking forward to touring and discovering again in 2022!
[If you also want to play this piece, you are welcome to get the free score here](https://www.talirecorderlessons.com/book-bundle)

Until the next tour...

~ Tali

Recording and editing: Ariel Weiss
Audio recording: Rafi Eshel



New video of Here, There and Everywhere by The Beatles performed by Tali Rubinstein and Tal Zilber

Video Release: Here, There, and Everywhere


Happy to share another piece performed by Tal Zilber and I during our China tour in 2019 - Here, There and Everywhere by The Beatles (with a little bit of Chinese influence).

This legendary quartet that’s been the soundtrack of my childhood has left an immense impact on my life. Back then, I felt as if their songs were always there, and will always be - they were everywhere - playing at home in the evenings, or on Saturday mornings, playing in loops on our car’s cassette player for hours on our family trips, all of us quietly humming half-gibberish with whatever we could make of the lyrics. I especially loved the ballads - these perfectly shaped gems of sweet melody and gentle harmony. They had a beginning and an end, and in between, a little world of music that made all the sense without needing to explain anything. I think it was compassion that formed from the sound waves. Back then, when the world was a little frightening and nothing seemed certain - there were Beatles cassettes, and at least for the duration of the song, I knew I need never care.

Video recording and editing: Ariel Weiss
Audio recording: Rafi Eshel

~ Tali

⭐️Cybird⭐️ by the Maiello Rubinstein Duo is now out on all major platforms!

New Album: Cybird


[Click here to listen to the full album](https://ffm.to/mrduo) 

This EP, full of passion and goofiness, is a story of two people who always wanted to be cool, but ended up playing a harpsichord (or a recorder, in my case). Two people who love music so much and so fully, they won’t let having only two hands stand in the way of playing two keyboard instruments at once (or, two recorders). Two people whose minds love experimenting, but whose hearts are stuck deep in the 17th century. It’s a story about wanting to break free and return home, all at the same time.

I’m so excited to share our creation, composed so thoughtfully and intricately by Apollonio Maiello. Cover art and animation by the person who does not cease to blow my mind, Scott Siskind. Recorded at ATLAS Tonstudio (GER), Mastering and Mixing: Jürgen Losigkeit. Management by the real wonder woman, Floriana Maddalena Maiello.

~ Tali

Tali Rubinstein was featured in CMUSE.org's top 15 places to Learn Recorder Online.

Tali Featured in CMUSE


Thanks a bunch to [CMUSE.org](https://www.cmuse.org/learn-recorder-lessons-online/) for choosing me to be a part of their top selection of 15 Websites To Learn Recorder Online. There are a lot of great resources there and it's an honor to be featured among them. My site is less than 6 months old at the time of writing this article, and it's great that people are finding it useful, I had no idea if anyone would ever see it!

To get started with the basics, feel free to checkout my [Tutorials](https://www.talirecorderlessons.com/tutorials) page and get some short lessons on the fundamentals of the recorder. Once you feel comfortable with that material, you can [book a free trial lesson with me](https://www.talirecorderlessons.com/book-lesson) and we can work through things more in depth.

I look forward to teaching you soon!

~ Tali

Looking to learn the recorder? Tali Rubinstein teaches online recorder lessons to all skill levels and age groups, from beginners to advanced students.

New Playalong Video: La Bikina

Apr 01 2021

Video Release: A Horse Busy Transporting Grain

Mar 06 2021

Video Release: Here, There, and Everywhere

Feb 26 2021

New Album: Cybird

Feb 06 2021

Tali Featured in CMUSE

Sep 21 2020