Nah high notes are so fun, like how you never know if you’ve discovered a new one or not. Most I can say it’s hard to find # and b (My personal range is low Bb to C 2 above the staff) if anyone knows more fingerings please share the knowledge and a high fingering chart
I’m a bassoonist who is playing the bassoon for concert seriously and out of the three bassoons we have no one wants to play first, and seeing this video makes me want to play first part sleigh ride even more. 😭😭
I'm a flutist for 30+ years looking to give Bassoon a whirl. Excited to vibe it a try. I played it briefly in 5th grade but my GMA couldn't stand it and my cousin said it sounded like farts lol
As a bassoonist, I had to sight read this song and 1st part since our orchestra had one rehearsal and I had covid all the way up to the concert so I didn’t even try to play those high notes😭
I just switched to bassoon from clarinet im so excited to be on bassoon I’m the only bassoon player in my class I’m sure going to miss being one of the spotlight on clarinet but bassoon is so pretty it makes up for it! You sounds AMAZING!!
Contrafagot or contrabassoon would sound SO good on this song. There needs to be a rare low instrument Sleigh Ride, with Bari, Bass, and Subcontrabass saxophones, contrabassoons, contrabass clarinets, etc.
i hope i never need to play this peice, i play euph and we dont have a bassoon so i have to play bassoon parts alot, and this sound pretty difficult. great job!
They do hurt a lot when I play this piece to be honest, but you get used to it or find ways to alleviate the pain. For example, I some times will leak a little bit of air out through the sides of my mouth in a loud section of the piece so people can't hear it. It releases the tension in your embrochure!
Hey i play the bassoon in high school symphonic band and i also have to balance playing the bass clarinet as well. Any tips to continue practicing and managing discipline to get good on bassoon because im already set on the bass clarinet?
Just slow practice! The fingerings on the bassoon are so unique since it uses all 10 fingers, so just making sure each finger moves in unison is the best way to improve! Practice scales and thirds, which are definitely the best way to work on fingers :)
I WANNA PLAY SLEIGH RIDE ON BSN NOW SO BADLY BUT WE'RE STUCK WITH THE SAME ARRANGEMENT OF JINGLE BELLS AND A DIFFERENT SOUSA MARCH EVERY YEAR(plus we had our second band play sleigh ride last year... so i doubt i'll be able to)
I’m a bit late but I’ll try and answer anyway, basically for flute, bassoon, and even oboe you vibrato with your abdominal muscles. I’m really simple terms, you just flex and unflex them really quickly LOL. I know some people do vibrato with their throats and like shake them instead of using their abdominal muscles, but it’s a lot less efficient and kinda has a hard limit on how much you can control your vibrato, but if you use your abdominal muscles to create vibrato you have much more control on how aggressive or light you want your vibrato to be.
I didnt see this LOL but I'll try. Idk much about brass, but what we do is just as enrique said, use your ab muscles to change the speed of your airflow. I practice by just doing a simple in for 2 out for 6 breathing exercise and just try to change the airflow in a controlled manner when you are breathing out, start slow and speed up :)
Mouth on the tip of the reed. Also reed is important, some reeds are better at high notes, and some at low notes, it is all dependent on the lightness of the reed :)
@@duolingo5267 it doesn't really work the same on Bassoon, some people pull out their bocal to tune but you're really not supposed to do it. The bell doesn't really change the tuning that far down the Bassoon.
Yeah its only not on all the way because the strings were a little too tight and I didn't want to mess with it since it was the schools instrument and not mine :)
Embouchure and fuller air! I cannot stress how much air is needed to play the bassoon with a great sound! I would consider trying to play your warm ups at home forte or louder in order to get that full tone!
That's true for about 153% of all concert band bassoon parts! Even more true for combinations of tenor sax, bass clarinet, third clarinet, third horn, and second trombone parts. I once did a touring concert season - 18 performances. There were two of us on bassoon. We worked out that if we weren't there, we'd be missed for a grand total of 18 seconds, of which 14 seconds was a part the arranger really wanted on alto flute. So we then worked out that our pay rate was something like $25,000 per hour. Too bad we only worked for those 18 seconds. (On the final performance, we played the 14 second alto flute thing on kazoo. The arranger wasn't happy, but the conductor laughed, so we got away with it.)
great tone, but i feel like that 'vibrato' shouldn't have place in orchestra playing - it's just not for this purpose :) it shouldn't be masking the lack of air support - but keep going, playing on an instrument is a long journey :D
