In middle school, my band teacher told me that he didn`t use bassoons in the band, so I decided to play trumpet. I`ve been playing trumpet since 6th grade, but now that I`m in high school, I want to play the bassoon. Is it hard? Do you think I`ll be able to play it? Please share some tips. Thanks

You should pursue playing the bassoon. It`s a great way to get scholarships into college. There are great resources available on the web including bassoon.org, idrs.org, or just type in bassoon in a search engine like google or yaho. You could continue on trumpet for marching band if that`s an interest.

The bassoon isn`t that hard to play once you get the hang of it, especially if you can already play another instrument. The only thing that`s hard is the bass clef if you can`t read it already. Good luck anyway.

I love playing bassoon, and not being a freshman yet, am not sure if it will be a career, but as to how hard it is, the bass clef part i feel is only a minor detail, it is mainly tone, intonation, and fingering (almost everything) if you start, do not be discouraged due to a bad tone. You just need to keep working at it, and remember, every bassoonist is having the same trouble you are with fingerings etc.

Bob

A bassoon is all about daily consistent hard practice. If you are having fingering problems, play scales and arppeggios involving the fingers at varying tempos until you are smooth with everything. After you accomplish that, find something else to correct and keep going.

i just began playing bassoon in October and i found the hardest part was switching my embrochure..

I`ve been playing saxophone (all five) since fifth grade and I`m in seventh or middle school. So I`ve been playing saxophones for three years. I`ve always played treble cleff, but I found out that to use the bass cleff you just take it a note lower on the line or in the spaces. I`m really worrying about that the reeds are going to be hard to play through, since bassoons have 2 and saxophones only have 1. I would like to know; is it harder to change to the bass clef or is it the reeds?

i played the bassoon for like 5 years. and before that i used to play violin. it was really hard to switch from treble cleff to bass cleff, and now i`m learing tenor cleff. i think the hardest part of playing the bassoon is the highter octaves

I have been playing basson for a merely 6 months now and I have to say that it is quite a change and takes awhile to get used to. I love it now though and I would never think about changing back. Before that I have been playing sax since 4th grade and I`m a junior in high school now. Just don`t do what I did and switch instruments into different groups because I play bari sax in jazz band and tenor sax in marching band and bassoon in concert band and it`s really hard trying to jump around and still have a good embrochure. Good luck and have Fun!!!!

I was playing trombone for three years before my friend who plays oboe got me into bassoon. I borrowed one from my middle school teacher and learned it in a flash.

How long did it take you guys? It took me about a month of long, hard, practice.

PS. My friends call it a giant bong

Definately pursue it. I had to play the clarinet in elementary, because you couldn`t play bassoon then (your fingers are too small i think). It takes a little bit to get used to streching your fingers so far. For you the biggest difference would probably be the form of your mouth, but if you stick too it, it`ll come.

When I first started playing bassoon, I read the treble clef notes instead of bass clef. I saw a B instead of a D. I practiced for hours when I first got the bassoon home. I played though books and scales. My arm go tired a lot but then I just took breaks. My arm doesn`t get tired anymore. I could play with my concert band in about three weeks.

i play bassoon it`s kinda hard

i paly bassoon if u wanna play it go ahead but justk now it takes a lot of hard work and practice it`s all about the bassoons! i use to play oboe but i got switched cuz they needed a good player to switch i guess it`s okay .man scales r hard to play well not really just the fingerings.

i play bassoon to and i switched from clairinet. you have to study a lot if you are switching clefs but if not then you will have fun. also,if you are good and you are the only one playing it then you usually get a lot of attention. well, im only 11 so it might be different for you but other wise i think you`ll have fun unless you are the person that doesn`t likem to be unique.