My Reaction to the Most Popular Bassoon Tutorial on YouTube
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- There is a lot of bad bassoon advice on the internet, so in this video I wanted to take a look at a really popular video for beginning bassoon and discuss some incorrect and misleading information that it shares.
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Dr. Natalie Law is an active bassoonist and educator based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As an orchestral musician, she has most recently performed with the the Lansing Symphony, the Grand Rapids Symphony, and West Michigan Symphony. Natalie is a founding member of the Lansing-based woodwind quintet, Pure Winds, which was recently named a finalist for The American Prize and released an album under the Orpheus Classical music label. She has toured the United States as a performing artist and clinician at numerous institutions and conferences such as the Midwest Clinic and the International Double Reed Society Conference. Natalie received her DMA from Michigan State University, where she also obtained her Master's degree in bassoon performance. She completed her Bachelor's degrees in both bassoon performance and music education at the University of Montana. Her primary teachers have included Michael Kroth, Dorian Antipa, Elizabeth Crawford, and Jennifer Cavanaugh.
Natalie is passionate about teaching bassoonists. Having grown up in a rural area without a bassoon teacher for hundreds of miles, she understands the need for high quality and accessible online resources. That's why she founded and created Building a Bassoonist: to help students feel confident, successful, and enjoy learning this unique instrument!
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Let's make this one of the most popular.
You do good work, and thank you for what you do. Not everyone does how-to videos well, and some are downright scary - power tool demos, for instance. On RUclips, anyone gets to be an expert. Results may vary. Greatly. Your approach is top-notch. Well done, Ms. Law.
He's def an oboe player. Soaking the tip and forming an “ooo”embrosure
Good points Natalie, and you are so kind with your delivery. Not condescending at all to the other, less experienced RUclips posters.
I’ve watched this video before but I never noticed how crazy the guy was to assemble the bassoon while on the seat strap until actually imagining doing it myself. It looks sorta fine on camera but if I were to try doing that myself I would immediately realize how awkward and dangerous it is. Especially if joints are tight, putting a lot of downwards force could cause the seat strap to slip out and crash the whole instrument on the floor. And that likelihood would increase for small kids because of their lighter weight therefore providing less friction on the seat strap
Totally agree with your comments. In the Netherland our teaching methods are the same as yours! Please continue your excellent job.
I almost died watching him assemble the instrument
I agree with most of your points, Natalie. THAT video is weird. But the reed part, there are all kinds of ways to make and perform on reeds. Over here in Thailand we've seen every thing from threaded reed, shrink tube, just wired, 4 wired, 2 wired, soaked it entirely, just dip the blade, just lick it, or just play them straight of box! In the end, it all comes down to the performance itself. If you can play well, anything goes. Just my two cents. Thank you for creating good videos, great insights, and easy to understand.
I tried some of those reeds with no wrapping; not even heat-shrink tubing. The claim is with modern substances (Duco) you don't need those add ons. I found I kept getting my fingers nicked by the wires.
Thank you so much for this! As a beginning bassoon player, I'm always on the lookout for accurate information. To that end, I do wish you yourself expanded a bit more. Instead of telling us how his embouchure explanation was incomplete and he should have "talked about this or that," I wish you had talked about those things. Where should I put my lips on the reed? How do I avoid "biting down"? And so on. I really appreciate your channel and have been doing my best to follow your advice in other videos! Keep up the great work!
She has a beginner video like the one she's reviewing that covers those things.
This is amazing, I literally just received a rental bassoon today that I’m going to learn to play for band. I found that exact video and followed along to learn how to assemble and play. Thankfully I didn’t have the seat strap on and assembled it like you described from the floor. But yes, the ooo sound helped me to produce a noise but it definitely didn’t sound like an F. I needed about 5-10 minutes of experimentation to produce a nice sound based on the limited info I got; never played woodwind before.
I’m going to watch more of your content to learn! Do you offer online classes by chance?
Congrats on starting bassoon, how exciting!
Check out my online course, Bassoon Jumpstart, it’s a comprehensive beginning bassoon course that might be helpful to you: building-a-bassoonist.teachable.com/p/bassoon-jumpstart
I’ve never soaked the entire reed, just the blade.
Huh, I always soak the entire thing, that’s how I was taught
theres a difference? does it matter?
I dip the turban into the water then flip it so the blade is under. Not sure if this does anything its just how I learned to soak my reeds
Soaking the entire reed is important because it helps create a seal around the bocal (more difficult to do when the butt end of the reed is dry). Also the reed is more likely to vibrate (function) more evenly when the entire reed is soaked. Overall it makes it easier to play. Thanks for bringing this point up!
@@BuildingaBassoonist Thank you for this explanation! Can you give any tips to those of us using synthetic (Legere specifically) reeds?
I was so shocked to see him assemble the long joint before the tenor joint! I think he has good general knowledge on woodwinds, but not bassoon in particular
Love the video! I was just wondering what the piece at the end is called?
@@robertan2927 Sonata for Bassoon and Piano by Nancy Galbraith - one of my favorites!
Thank you!
My father showed me the same video but I only payed attention to how the assemble it and when I truly got my bassoon, my director was so much better at teaching me than the vid😭
Helpful video! This one ought to drive you nuts in places, too I think: ruclips.net/video/XRwS4OE2wY0/видео.html
I've never heard of anybody trying to attach both the wing and bass joints to the boot at the same time! I'd also suggest (did I learn it from you?) that unless your wider side of the boot is also lined, don't pull the swab out that direction; place it in the large end and pull it through the small side of the boot so as not to bring the wet swab in contact with the unlined side of the boot joint's bore.
@@philrichards9761 haven’t seen this one - wild!