I would try to look as much as possible around, listen to a lot of recordings, try to get as much material as possible. Playing in an orchestra is going with the intonation of your colleagues, with the rhythm of your colleagues, the dynamic of your colleagues, going with them and them going with you.
You have to go with the flow. The more you practice things, the safer you feel because you know you can play it. So better prepared you are, the easier it gets, but you are always nervous. At the end of the day we are musicians because love playing and we love the audience. Thank you for reading and keep on spreading the word about how wonderful the bassoon is.
Signup Login. Nov 25, Thanks for the information. The answer is to accept that learning is a lot harder than you initially envisaged not helped perhaps by viewing children on YouTube playing your selected instrument to an incredible standard! Make sure you enjoy the learning process and take satisfaction from small, incremental improvements with the occasional big breakthrough.
If you find that your improvements are too small for weekly lessons to be worthwhile, then have fortnightly ones instead. It is also worth bearing in mind that learning how to learn an instrument — how to practice, what to play, how long to play, and so on — is important.
And no two people are the same, so you have to find the best way for you to practice rather than just relying on what works for others. The bassoon is a complex instrument with a big range and therefore has lots of keys to press, with lots of fingerings to be learnt and practiced repeatedly. So to begin with it will be more of a challenge than a simpler instrument, and therefore the initial stages of learning will take longer.
But what are the specific challenges for middle-aged and older adults learning the bassoon? The most obvious is the physical size and weight of the instrument. Seat straps, harnesses and balance hangers can help with handling the instrument when playing. A case with back straps helps with carrying it. And plenty of cork grease to allow easy disassembly will not go amiss. As the bassoon is such a big wind instrument it is unsurprising that it also needs plenty of air to make it work.
Its warm, dark, reedy timbre has often been compared to that of a male baritone voice. The bassoon is a double reed instrument. Because of its size, it plays very low notes , giving it a lower sound than the other woodwind instruments.
The bassoon's double reed produces a characteristic nasal quality, two octaves lower than the range of the oboe, that lends distinctive color to the woodwind instruments. The number of keys on a bassoon can start from 22 up to 28 ; extra keys on the bassoon will allow the player to use alternative fingering. A short reach Bassoon is built for smaller hands, so the keys on the bassoon are either extended or some holes closed to make it suitable.
Reed: A double bassoon reed. Milan Turkovic. Antoine Bullant. Bill Douglas. Judith LeClair. Julie Price. Asger Svendsen. Asger Svendsen is a professor of the bassoon that received early training from the prestigious Royal Danish Academy of Music, which is also where he teaches. Bassoon wood typically needs to be aged for years, and every year taxes paid on it. That's one factor in the materials.
But they also require an exceptional amount of labor to make well. That kind of labor isn't cheap. Why is the bassoon so hard to play? Fewer people play the bassoon than most other standard orchestral instruments, which means that it is usually much easier to get into orchestras playing the bassoon than with more common instruments.
This opens up lots of opportunities for bassoonists to play and makes for a less competitive environment. Want to join an amateur orchestra quickly? Take up the bassoon and your competition for entry will be relatively small. In conclusion, the bassoon is a top choice for any aspiring musician, and if this article has piqued your interest in learning the bassoon, then take a look at some of our secondhand bassoons here and get in touch for advice.
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