Clearinghouse for bassoon resources.
Ask me anything! (Bassoon edition)
Videos
- Building a Bassoonist YouTube channel from Dr. Natalie Law
Really great videos about everything bassoon!
Downloads & Printables
- Bassoon Embouchure Boot Camp – from the American Band College
- Bassoon Fingering Charts – leveled for Beginner, Student, Pro, and Extreme Range
- The Four Bassoon Fundamentals – Band Directors Talk Shop
- Contranomicon – Contrabassoon Fingering Chart
- Bassoon Fingering Chart Paper
- Bassoon Basics – Janelle Ott, DMA
- A Compendium of Practice Methods and their Application to the Bassoon – Bruce Hammel, DMA
- Collection of articles and summaries
- Bassoon Maintenance, Care, and Materials – Ariel Detwiler, DMA (More Helpful Handouts)
Shopping
- Bocal Majority – instruments, reeds, gear, etc.
- Forrest’s Music – instruments, reeds, gear, etc.
- Blakley Bassoon Studio Reeds – Lil’ Asskickers (Whoopass Willies and Herzberg Hellraisers!)
Events
- IDRS 2024 – Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, July 21-25, 2024
- Loon Bassoon Workshop – August 9-11, 2024 (free 3-day workshop in Minneapolis)
- Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition & Bassoon Symposium, UNC School of the Arts, January 9-12, 2025
- IDRS 2025 – Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, June 10-14, 2025
Required Reading
- Solitary Refinement: Chromatics, Chords & Scales – Concepts for the Committed Bassoonist (updated with fingering chart), Nadina Mackie Jackson
- Breathing Book for Bassoon, Kristin Wolfe Jensen
- Sound in Motion: A Performer’s Guide to Greater Musical Expression, David McGill
- Spirited Wind Playing: The Performance Dimension, Kim Walker
Required Listening
Public Domain Goodies
- Weissenborn Bassoon Studies, Op. 8, Volumes 1 &2 (1885)
- Milde Concert Studies, Op. 26, 1-25, 26-50 (1891)
- 85 Bassoon Concertos on IMSLP
- IMSLP Works Featuring the Bassoon