Bassoon Summer Camp
Tuesdays beginning June 14 at Rockwall Heath HS

10:00am - 3:00pm Tuesday, June 14, 21, 28 & July 12.  We are unable to meet on July 5 due to campus closure for that week.

I am very excited to again be able to start our bassoon camp.  It will be fun to have my students together for a summer of learning.  This camp is open to all bassoon students of all ability levels. We will make reeds and learn the art of adjustments.  We will play ensembles of varying levels so everyone will have fun participating. We will learn the important tenor clef, which is used for high notes and the All State Etudes that everyone 9th grade and up will be playing from July - December. We will get into more difficult materials, but that will be scheduled for the last part of the day. I encourage younger students to stay and observe, or they are free to leave early.

What Will We Do During Camp?

Reed making & adjustments
Students must have their own basic tool kit (we can share forming tools.  You may order a tool kit below)

• Tool options
• Tube cane or GSP?
• Different profiles of cane
• Make reeds - 4 pieces of cane included, more is available for the ambitious or reckless at an add’l charge of $3 each piece, while supplies last.  If you want advanced cane it is $5.50 each, Herzberg or Christlieb, order below or at class.

Ensemble playing

• Choosing music 
• How to balance
• Are the dynamics written in stone?
• Let’s play them. I have duos, trios, quartets & octets

​Ear Training
Practice Techniques 

• Finding a practice tempo
• Breaking through a seemingly impossible passage

Music Theory

• Pitch
• Scale & Modes
• Chords (importance of 2nd bassoon in tuning role)
• Harmony 
• Timbre
  • Dynamics
  • Articulation 
• Form or structure 
• Expression
• Notation

​​Music History

• Major Solos for bassoon in symphonic literature (including DYSO audition material)
• Major Solos for bassoon (also included on PML, grades 1 & 2)

Reading Tenor Clef 

• How to read tenor clef
• Milde etudes

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Bassoon Camp

$250.00

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​The bassoon camp fee includes all music and 4 pieces of cane.
​You must have a reed making or adjusting kit.

Deluxe Bassoon Reed Making Kit

$189.50

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Deluxe Bassoon Reed Making Kit
Wedge style knife, Chiarugi (Rigotti) Bassoon Mandrel, Spiral Reed Reamer, forming pliers, cutting block, Chiarugi (Rigotti) Contoured nickel plated  Arrow Plaque, brass wire, stainless steel ruler, all stored in a 4" X 8" X 1 1/2" zipper top tool bag.

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Basic Bassoon Reed Adjusting Kit

$85.90

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Basic Bassoon Reed Adjusting Tool Kit
​All the essential tools to begin making reed adjustments contained in a tool bag: mandrel, knife, cutting block and arrow plaque. Shipping included.  This kit does not include pliers

Get a $7 refund if you buy the Basic Kit & Pliers together. 

Bassoon Forming Pliers

$39.45

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Bassoon Cane

$3.00 - $5.50

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