Bassoon rendition of Umbrella by Rihanna

[Jangofettlvr]

awww.... u sound so sad... :) but u rock!

[jarhead850]

Just blow dont squezze ur mouth peice with ur lips bob i had that problem when i just started ahaha

[bobobobatea]

I play bassoon and i have a problem, when i play my B flat it sounds like a C. How can i fix that problem??? ASAP

[JReed357]

The bassoon is such a strange thing but its amazing! Well played!

[dpalma123]

@bassoonrama, can you send me a copy of that arrangement?? I play bassoon for my school, and I've really been looking for some fun pieces to play, please and thank youu!!

[gr55222]

Stop breathing every phrase!!!!!!!

[Bowlinking]

@gr55222 You must have never played a bassoon. It takes a lot more hot air than nearly every other instrument. lol

[regulargirl3]

wow you are really good! im playing bassoon for band. i just started this year. ive been playing for about three months an di have already fumbled through the melody for a lady gaga song!

[Pupdawg9724]

that's cool. i was thinking about playing the bassoon. my dad would probably gripe about me playing one though.

[bassoonarama]

Please check out my other videos... they are much better than this one. My most recent video is Lady Gaga- Bad Romance, please take a look at it!

[animechick742]

I play the Bassoon too! I can't wait 'till I can ACTUALLY buy one!

Good job! :D

[alaskababy113]

I play the bassoon 2. At first it sounded soooo awful but later it sounded really heart warming! :) BASSOON ROCKS

[CedricRoy]

I have been playing bassoon for a few years now, and I have to say, I have yet to play anything this cool. Haha, the coolest thing I have played ie either "In the Hall of the Mountain King" or "The Imperial March."

[JasmerBoom]

i play bassoon, and i just learned how to play paint it black :)|

[KyleXChristophe]

Every parent tells their child that they're good at what they do. : /

[PanthergalHannah8713]

my parents dont!!!!

[justinking11]

wanna cookie?

[SORREHIRBAHD]

You're like 13 right?

[selgomezdemiROX]

wow ur good i am just now learning 2 play the bassoon! i play flute now!

[blubak]

My sis enjoys you she listens everyday to try to get it right :] she plays bassoon too

[sabyisawesome55]

WOW! your pretty good at bassoon! im in 6th grade and play bassoon! its fun

[NoLifeToAccountFor]

I just finished 6th grade, I'm thinking of taking bassoon in 7th....

I LOVE the sound the bassoon makes, it's so smooth =]

I have tiny hands tho...

[czar93]

Bassoon sounds smooth after you have played it for a while lol trust me when I started. Smooth was the last word you would use to describe the sound coming out of my bassoon. lmao XD

[wagnerortizg]

Do you believe that I lovely you!!! I am in love for you! You are beautiful, very beautiful!!!! Very Great!!!

[ohsocooljess]

i think the bassons a well easy instrument to play! and trust me i know, ive play 6 instruments (and counting)!

[yalwantasingle]

wow i also play bassoon it's not to bad but stil. . .

[fishayyy]

no offence but this is so shit. I'm a bassoonist and i can sight read better than that

[SamiWPrincess]

How long have you been playing the Bassoon?

Once again.....I'm Impressed :)

[zstickey159]

good! except you changed keys in the middle of it

[mrouse55]

yeah

[mrouse55]

wow! ur good! where do u find sheet music for modern songs? it even had the melody on it!

[bassoonarama]

I wrote out the melodies myself. If you want a copy of this, just say the word and I can send it to you via email.

[KyleXChristophe]

Ohhh, I think I would like this for my bassoon. :]] My friends and I in band like to try to find anything that we know about to play. I'm the only bassoonist in my school though! 8D

[blueoinker]

hey can you send me the sheet music

[burninbot]

@bassoonarama hey can you send me a copy of the bad romance sheet music plz? Thanks! Burninbot

[party82318]

@bassoonarama please send the music to smcc97@aol.com

[cowzrok789]

Haha you were right when you said bassoon wasn't easy! How long have u been playing?

[Sieg53]

no offense but you should only add the upper body movenment if your sight reading or you got a piece really well figured out. if you didn't move and focus more on controlling the air flow you wouldn't have the shaky low notes other than that decent job. Oh try some pieces that aren't a cover. Personally those are a lot more fun to play than something like a popular song on the radio.

[marginator007]

some people just automatically move while they're playing, it's not like she can control it

[HeatherStudios]

Pretty good, a little tuning problem, but nice job.

[Wiimaster95]

Yes that was awsome

[ZackQutia]

ya i play bassoon 2....(just 2 show off i got superior on solo and ensemble) and the beginning low notes are a little shaky

[gumdropj]

I bet the song has alot of flicking

doesn't that suck?

[KIMBOSCILE]

um ok.

[ILuvEdward1908]

dude you rock im a fellow bassonist but im in middle school so i just i can get that good.

[bently629]

wow i also play the basson but i cant play that i wish u could teach me! loved it! you r so talented!!

[edwardcullen728]

Oh! I found Britney Spears song "Circus" for the Bassoon today!!! I'm about to work on it after this,acutally. :)

[edwardcullen728]

Very good playing! I play bassoon also and I love it. I wish I could find songs like this. You sure used a lot of vibrato. Do you do that all the time? I do it on most songs, but not all of them, you know? But, GREAT playing! :)

[KK437]

Wow! Good Job O;

I would fail at this o.e

I play the Bb and Bass Clarinet

[iPodMaya]

is the bassoon hard? i mean, does it put

pressure on ur head? im a flute player and i

wanna switch to bassoon, a girl in my

class said the bassoon was easy. i played sax

for 2 days, i got a headache. does basoon do that? I MUST KNOW! p.s: im in begginning band 6th grade, never played an instrument before

exept my flute...

[violinistx100]

ipodmaya

the bassoon is a challenge if you have smallhands it will be difficult,but other than that nothing really is difficult

[clarinetbulldog1996]

Well my band director cant get a sound out of the bassoon and she is a flute player but today i switched to bassoon today and i know alot about the bassoon and i switched from b flat clarinet but i think should deffanatly try it doesnt put pressure on your head

[sapphirekitty564]

i'm in 6th grade band too!!!! the bassoon is really awesome you should think about it cus i play bassoon and im 1st chair in 9th period band and it doesn't cause headaches. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[edwardcullen728]

You guys have 9 PERIODS IN SCHOOL?? Wow....that would be a long day. I play the bassoon too btw. I'm in 7th grade.1st chair in Honors band(the best band) :)Oh-the bassoon is awesome.I agree

[JeffyJeffjeffm31191]

are you the only bassoonist?

[shinka1911]

Very Good!!!

[schuberu]

thats good, ive been playing for about 6 years now, and id say thats really good, but then again; you could have been playing for like 23 years, so idk

[bassoonarama]

lol, I wish... I've only been playing for about 4 years now.

[BerzerkNoodle]

So so pretty but girl you ROCKED IT

[Kkaskerrigan]

go bassoons!

[ZUR1MANE]

yo you pretty beast on the bassoon. i,ve been playin for bout four and a half months. I aint to bad at it either i can play grade six music. n e wayz how long you been playin?i switched from sax. i always thought bassoon girls were ugly though. o well. keep playin

[FabFemiNazi]

I like your choice of bassoon for the song and it adds tremolo to the notes during the chorus. Cool effect.I get the feeling your reading off a paper;as a guitarist,I highly recommend that you memorize the 'riff', verse,chorus..etc. and then jam with it. It'll sound more confident.. well, not exactly confident.. Are you appeasing or performing? (Play it or Cover it) One thing I like about nonacademic music;seldom does the group allow itself paper. All memory.We should co tour one day.

[dallasmarshmallows]

hey i play clarinet/bassclarinet/alto sax ur good i want to play bassoon now!

[shinka1911]

ROFL

I tought the same thing.

I also play clatinet, bass clarinet and alto sax. Now I am thinking about playing the Bassoon to. xD

[ccoasterdesigner]

u could I play clarinet,alto & barry sax, and bassoon. u r good

[bassoongymnast]

I switched from clarinet to bassoon,and ive been playing bassoon for 2 years.

[lilc0202]

this is really good but is there really all those key changes? but that's good i play as well

[bassoonarama]

no, there aren't... i put them in to make it easier on myself because the combination of keys i had to use was much more annoying in the original key of the chorus

[aviator11tkp]

do you notice you sway when you play, also watch your timing

[mollyphloot07]

Hahah, this is genius.

[groovygal24]

i play saxophone keyboard guitar and anywho i was thinking of starting bassoon any advice?? and awesome job on umbrella!

[FourWindsGypsy]

oh my god same here! except piano instead of keyboard

WEIRD coincidence

[LonelyPker]

Damn, you're good. Good tone, and everything. I wish I could play like you, but I'm not that good yet :( I'm still working on getting the fingerings down. Flute to bassoon: not an easy transition xD

[WelcomexToxThexNHK]

Hey! I also just switched from flute to bassoon! What a coincidence. I've been playing for a few months. I went to honor band tryouts today on bassoon and actually made it! I was surprised =P

[LonelyPker]

I actually made it to East County Select Band, which is like honor band for the entire East County (like 2 or 3 cities)...I was suprised too xD

[WelcomexToxThexNHK]

How many people tried out on bassoon? Not many people in Oklahoma play, so it was me and three other people.

[LonelyPker]

There's only two of us, but I was still suprised that they let me do it even though I'm this new at it. But I've been getting way better, so yeah. Amparito Roca though...that's a hard piece. So is Flashing Winds!

[onegeorgia2]

yo dat hard g stik wit da stuff dogg

[whatsthedifference10]

hey ummm are the fingerings and notes the same for bassoon as they are the oboe??

i really need to knnow

[aafrophone]

not even close. they don't even read the same clefs

[Alexstewart88]

Fingering wise, the bassoon is considerably more difficult then the oboe (there are 33 keys & 5 holes ^_^. I find the embouchure is easier however.

[bassoonboy1]

no...embochure is more difficult because u have to drop ur jaw and tighten it when you are playing in the upper range...bassoon is a very challenging instrument to play.

[Alexstewart88]

I totally agree with that, but being a player of both oboe and bassoon, I personally would have to say the bassoon embouchure was much easier to to grasp then that of the oboe. Fingering are incredibly more difficult on the bassoon, therefore making it a more difficult instrument overall in my opinion. :)

[aznpandabear13]

i really like your tone.

[bassoonarama]

thanks :D

[sisterlove0914]

i play the basson but im not that good.... but i dod get in symphonic band as a 7 grader! that is the first year of middle school in my county

[littlemonster333]

AHHH!! AND you have the same name as me!! how creepy does this get! lol...

This was so different, I LOVED it!! X

[bassoonarama]

haha, thanks monster! Nicoles rock my socks!!

[Elephunkielephant]

i have a friend who plays the basson and we are in a wind quintet and you sound really good and the mouth piece is so hard to put air through it you did a great job.

[girlnextdoor4ever112]

You did great bassoon is so hard but you were amazing!!!!

[smole133]

This isn't a song for the bassoon definitely. It's sounds like a rehearsal, or some scales. Lol ! bUT rIHHANNA IS HOOOT!!!

[sandree7]

nice

[InstrumentManiac]

Haha the sway is great! I always tend to do that as well. Nice vibrato aswell!

[gamohunter1985]

I play the bassoon at school. I play on the schools instrument and it is a piece of crap.I can't believe how expensive the reeds and instruments are.

[sckagh123]

i play to can you post the notes?

[elite862]

not to rain on your parade or anything, but why did you write it in two different keys?

furthermore, bassoon isn't more difficult to play than other instruments really.

[bassoonarama]

I wrote it in two different keys because the one key for the chorus area was easier to play in a different key.

Also... what do you mean it's not harder to play? Do you play any other instruments besides the bassoon, because I do! The double reed makes everything more difficult and all of the extra keys are definitely confusing to learn.

[elite862]

i (basically) started on clarinet so i've had to deal with many keys since about 5th grade. as for the double reed, i sometimes prefer it to single reeded instruments because you can control it so much easier. i'm a music major and i've been playing bassoon since 11th grade (i'm going into my sophomore year of college) and it's like second nature to me now.

i think that oboe, flute, and french horn are way harder than bassoon.

[Glazed1415]

yes it is harder, the fingerings can be tricky..

[DarkstarDeck]

I have 6 weeks to learn enough bassoon to play in a aband with all 2 and 3 year players!!! I AM FREAKING OUT!!!!!!!! DO YOU HAVE ANY TIPS?

[bassoonarama]

The best thing I can say to do is simply not to freak out. Just focus on learning all of the fingerings and try not to get nervous about the slightly daunting situation. What's this band for anyways?

[DarkstarDeck]

School. BUT MY SCHOOL WONT LET ME GO INTO THE 7TH GRADE BAND (even tho im going into 7th grade) Cause he thinks that Im rlly good, and that I can learn the bassoon in 5 weeks (Im not getting the bassoon till wednsday, and I cant practice till a week from monday)

[bassoonarama]

hold on... you mean that your school wants you to go into the 8th grade band instead?

[DarkstarDeck]

yea, my band teacher thinks that I can be in the 8th grade band when Im in 7th grade, and play the bassoon (me being a first year player) and I would be in a band with people that had been playing for 2 or 3 or even 4 years.

[bassoonarama]

Oh wow... you know someone I know was once put into a similar situation. A friend of mine that plays clarinet skipped over the 4th grade band and went straight to the 5th grade one. She turned out to be one of the greatest clarinet players I know. Who knows, the same kind of thing could happen to you! I know it might seem scary, but maybe you should embrace the opportunity and take it for what it is, a challenge.

[bassoonarama]

Yes, it will be difficult. Yes, it will be stressful. But... yes, it will be worth it. Just go into the situation with the right attitude and I think you'll be glad you did.

[DarkstarDeck]

okay thanks, and ne ways I will be getting a lesson to teach me basic notes and scales and stuff on wednsday, so ill have a headstart to learning it. How long did it take you to learn 3 or 4 of the basic scales?

[bassoonarama]

Not terribly long... if you're doing it over the summer, you can probably figure 2 or 3 scales in a week or two once you've got the basics down.

[DarkstarDeck]

ok, thanks 4 the help

[Tsukuyomi102594]

scales aren't. i learned all my major scales in about three days. just stick with it

[Tsukuyomi102594]

scales aren't that hard**

[litchick48]

haha i play the bassoon and i have to present it to one of my classes. i think i'm going to try to figure out this song.

[crazylj108]

nice!!! now i wanna learn how to play the bassoon!!!!

[megansoad16]

wow

give me the music sheet!

[crchkn]

LOL!!!! This is amazing

[CoMasta508]

this was nice just i dont think this song goes well with the basoon. But nice playing.

[gumdropj]

Awesome.

Make more videos plz.

[bassoonarama]

I will! Don't worry, I've just been very busy with AP exams and school! My new video should be out on Friday I think.

[KStrick92]

Haha!

This is so awesome :D