Beginning Bassoon Basics: Embouchure

This video will teach you the basics of Bassoon embouchure and how to produce the first sound on your reeds.

[forkliftman]

Well what a coincidence my band teacher is teaching me on YouTube now

[joanna]

Any tips for a flute player trying to transfer to bassoon?

[indiaroane]

I’ve been playing bassoon for five years, I’m about to start playing for my college, and I just had my last lesson with my highschool bassoon teacher. He told me I didn’t have enough reed in my mouth. I’m now watching this video and realizing wow holy shit I’ve been doing this wrong for five years. I was muffling the sound by having not enough reed in my mouth and now I’m working on this huge adjustment lol

[twinkelidiggs]

Tips for a trombone wanting to play bassoon??

[JustClaude]

Could you please translate "air support" and "jaw support" into English?
I have a plastic medium to experiment with and I get a thin sound with a lot of air. Or a strangled duck if I'm doing really well...

[thefaegrove]

Hey, any tips for a French Hornist who is learning bassoon as a second instrument?

[lhing.h]

Ummm i cant get the crowling at all and my embouchiure is not tight at all. I think my double reed hole is too small. Whenever i pinch it to make it the hole better i get the beautiful crowling sound

[royjaskowski]

Was just listening to shorts while doing so chores. I must have been heavily influenced by the classical music because when you pronounced the creature ability I swore you said embouchure and I had to stop what I was doing to figure wtf was going on.

[Yooolius]

this video is great but that abrupt cut to the crow sounds made me laugh harder than it should have.

[shrekwazowski]

I only looked at this because I wanted to hear what it sounds like when only the bassoon reed is being played because I have a friend who plays and it’s funny how pathetic it is compared to the full instrument

[KydTheMinion]

Also to all bassoon players coming for a high school basson player avoid jones like the the black plague buy from florida reeds or learn to make your own please 🙏