Bassoon Troubleshooting - Elizabeth Rusch Fetters
Citation: Fetters, Elizabeth Rusch. Bassoon Troubleshooting. The Instrumentalist, Nov. 2010, Vol. 65, no. 4.
Article Title: Bassoon Troubleshooting
Author: Elizabeth Rusch Fetters
Magazine or Journal Title: The Instrumentalist
Summary:
Article Title: Bassoon Troubleshooting
Author: Elizabeth Rusch Fetters
Magazine or Journal Title: The Instrumentalist
Summary:
- Problems
- Trouble with the strap on the seat
- Playing flat
- Playing sharp
- Difficulty playing low/high notes
- No sound
- Squeaks
- Unclear articulations
- Solutions are described given each situation.
Starting on the Bassoon - Alex Davidson
Citation: Davidson, Alex. Starting on the Bassoon. Music Teacher, May 2012, Vol. 91, no. 5, p. 50.
Article Title: Starting on the Bassoon
Author: Alex Davidson
Magazine or Journal Title: Music Teacher
Summary:
Article Title: Starting on the Bassoon
Author: Alex Davidson
Magazine or Journal Title: Music Teacher
Summary:
- When can you start the bassoon?
- Usually around the age of 11
- Sizes of beginner instruments have changed though
- Can start younger
- How do you know if a child is suited to the bassoon?
- Patience is key
- Counting is important
- Size of child matters
- I know they are expensive, but how much are we talking about?
- Quite expensive
- Rental is always an option
- Secondhand market is an option too
- What about reeds?
- Ordering them from online is a good option
- Find a local reedmaker
- Is it worth all the effort?
- Players are few and far between
- They are always needed
- Beautiful repertoire exists
Bassoon Low Notes - Katie Holland
Citation: Holland, Katie. Bassoon Low Notes. The Instrumentalist, Jan. 2011.
Article Title: Bassoon Low Notes
Author: Katie Holland
Magazine or Journal Title: The Instrumentalist
Summary:
Article Title: Bassoon Low Notes
Author: Katie Holland
Magazine or Journal Title: The Instrumentalist
Summary:
- Difficulty in controlling the bottom fifth of instrument
- Problems exist in a few areas
- Accidental uncovering of tone holes
- Caused by hand contortion
- Leaky boot joint or faulty mechanism
- Pads
- Reed is too closed
- Embouchure is too tight
Teaching the Beginning Bassoonist - Terry B. Elwell
Citation: Elwell, Terry B. Teaching the Beginning Bassoonist. The Double Reed, p. 35-43.
Article Title: Teaching the Beginning Bassoonist
Author: Terry B. Elwell
Magazine or Journal Title: The Double Reed
Summary:
Article Title: Teaching the Beginning Bassoonist
Author: Terry B. Elwell
Magazine or Journal Title: The Double Reed
Summary:
- Selecting Bassoonists
- Large hands
- Afford reeds
- Be an individual
- Independent
- Ten Lessons
- One
- Care of bassoon
- Assembly
- Seat strap
- Beginning fingerings
- Embouchure
- Reed care
- Two
- Posture/breathing
- New fingerings
- Lesson materials
- Rubank
- Three
- Articulation
- Attack
- Four
- Long tones
- New Fingerings
- Five
- Review
- Six
- Flick keys
- New fingerings
- Seven
- Introduction to drive
- Musicality
- Eight
- Articulated long tones with dynamics
- New Fingerings
- Nine
- Refine pitch control
- New fingerings
- Ten
- Review
- New fingerings
Staring A Student On A Bassoon - Janet Polk
Citation: Polk, Janet. Starting a Student on a Bassoon. Bassoon Clinic pp. 1-13.
Article Title: Starting A Student on A Bassoon
Author: Janet Polk
Magazine or Journal Title: Clinic
Summary:
Article Title: Starting A Student on A Bassoon
Author: Janet Polk
Magazine or Journal Title: Clinic
Summary:
- Bassoon Basics
- Assembly
- Position
- Embouchure
- Breathing
- Tonguing
- Reeds
- Dynamics
- Fingering Charts
- Beginner Methods
- Learn to Play the Bassoon
- Breeze - Easy Method
- Resources
- Let’s Play Bassoon
- Teacher’s Guide to Bassoon
- Bassoon Reeds
- Basic tools
- Problems and Solutions
- Diagrams
- Reeds and Tools are included
WoodWind Notes: Strategies for Teaching the Bassoon Embouchure - Michael Burns
Citation: Burns, Michael. Woodwind Notes: Strategies for Teaching the Bassoon Embouchure. North Carolina Music Educators, Spring 2004, pp. 22-23.
Article Title: Woodwind Notes: Strategies for Teaching the Bassoon Embouchure
Author: Michael Burns
Magazine or Journal Title: North Carolina Music Educator
Summary:
Article Title: Woodwind Notes: Strategies for Teaching the Bassoon Embouchure
Author: Michael Burns
Magazine or Journal Title: North Carolina Music Educator
Summary:
- Basics
- Neutral lower jaw positions
- Lips cover teeth and are rolled slightly
- Two types
- Drinking Straw
- Lips seal like drinking out of a straw
- Round rolled in lips with pucker
- Whistle
- Make embouchure like whistling, round pucker
- Issues
- Watch for amount of rolled in lips
- Don’t bite reed
- Play on wrap of reed
- Play C with whisper key
- Move lips up to wrap and play again
- Encourages air support
- The “Dying” Cow
- Play C
- Relax embouchure and support
- Try to raise note with abs and not embouchure