Episode Synopsis "Weissenborn Lesson IV Allegretto"

This is the second Allegretto in the lesson. This piece demonstrates what bassoon players have to do a lot: make it sound like there are two bassoons instead of one. Give more weight to the first note in every three-note grouping and back off the F-E. Sometimes in lessons I will play this one with a student as a duet; I play the first note and the student plays the F-E. Then, I have the student play all of it, while I continue to play the first note, giving it more emphasis.

Listen "Weissenborn Lesson IV Allegretto"

More episodes of the podcast Bassoon Lessons Podcast

• Fixing Bassoons on the Cheap
• The Secrets of Auditioning
• Books I Like to Teach From
• The Bassoon's "Octave Keys" and "Flicking"
• Difficult Notes on the Bassoon
• Selecting a Student to Start on Bassoon
• Bassoon College Search
• 10 Ways to Help Your Bassoon Player
• Bassoon Buying Guide
• Techniques for Mastering the Half-Hole
• How to Play Trills
• Practicing
• The Secrets of Fast Tonguing
• Bassoon Vibrato
• Weissenborn Lesson IX Andante sostenuto
• Weissenborn Lesson VI duet - teacher part
• Weissenborn Lesson V duet - teacher part
• Weissenborn Lesson VI duet - student part
• Weissenborn Lesson VI Andante
• Weissenborn Lesson V duet - student part
• Weissenborn Lesson V Allegro moderato and Meno allegro
• Weissenborn Lesson V Allegretto
• Weissenborn Lesson IV Allegretto
• Weissenborn Lesson III Andantino and L'istesso Tempo
• Weissenborn Lesson III Andante
• Weissenborn Lesson II Andante Duet
• Introduction