Reddit mentions: The best books about bassoons
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1. Bassoon Fundamentals: A Guide to Effective Practice
- Bassoon Fundamentals (A Guide to Effective Practice) Schott Series Softcover
- Concentration on individual aspects of playing the bassoon will make it easier to identify and correct errors and imprecision
- By working steadily through these exercises you can acquire a basic technique that will enable you to tackle difficult passages in the bassoon repertoire
- Such meticulous attention to detail will help you achieve the freedom to follow your intuition in a spontaneous musical performance
- Georg Klütsch, b
Features:
Specs:
| Height | 12 Inches |
| Length | 9 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | February 2003 |
| Weight | 2.20462262 Pounds |
| Width | 0.2 Inches |
2. The New Weissenborn Method for Bassoon
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Specs:
| Height | 12 Inches |
| Length | 9 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Weight | 1.35 Pounds |
| Width | 0.428 Inches |
3. The Bassoon Reed Manual: Lou Skinner's Techniques
Specs:
| Height | 11 Inches |
| Length | 8.25 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | February 2001 |
| Weight | 1.0692419707 Pounds |
| Width | 0.33 Inches |
4. Bassoon Concerto, Op. 75 (Orch.): Part(s) (Kalmus Edition)
Bassoon Concerto Op75 for Bassoon By Carl Maria von Weber Book Solo bassoon piece, great for audition repertoireSolo bassoon piece, great for audition repertoire
Specs:
| Height | 11.5 Inches |
| Length | 8.5 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Weight | 0.217 Pounds |
| Width | 0.25 Inches |
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1. Bassoon Fundamentals: A Guide to Effective Practice
- Bassoon Fundamentals (A Guide to Effective Practice) Schott Series Softcover
- Concentration on individual aspects of playing the bassoon will make it easier to identify and correct errors and imprecision
- By working steadily through these exercises you can acquire a basic technique that will enable you to tackle difficult passages in the bassoon repertoire
- Such meticulous attention to detail will help you achieve the freedom to follow your intuition in a spontaneous musical performance
- Georg Klütsch, b
Features:
Specs:
| Height | 12 Inches |
| Length | 9 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | February 2003 |
| Weight | 2.20462262 Pounds |
| Width | 0.2 Inches |
2. The New Weissenborn Method for Bassoon
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Specs:
| Height | 12 Inches |
| Length | 9 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Weight | 1.35 Pounds |
| Width | 0.428 Inches |
3. The Bassoon Reed Manual: Lou Skinner's Techniques
Specs:
| Height | 11 Inches |
| Length | 8.25 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | February 2001 |
| Weight | 1.0692419707 Pounds |
| Width | 0.33 Inches |
4. Bassoon Concerto, Op. 75 (Orch.): Part(s) (Kalmus Edition)
Bassoon Concerto Op75 for Bassoon By Carl Maria von Weber Book Solo bassoon piece, great for audition repertoireSolo bassoon piece, great for audition repertoire
Specs:
| Height | 11.5 Inches |
| Length | 8.5 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Weight | 0.217 Pounds |
| Width | 0.25 Inches |
tl;dr - see bolded sections.
Welcome! It sounds like you match the profile of a lot of amateur/hobbyist bassoonists. You should absolutely keep playing if you want to. (One of us! One of us!)
If you're going to college for something else, it would be totally normal for a non-music-major to still hang out around the bassoon studio, audit some studio classes, take lessons, play in the lower-ranked ensembles, and so on. The universities I attended had 1-credit lessons for non-majors and loaner instruments as well. It's less money than a lot of college students spend on other hobbies, and it's an arts elective credit. If your school has loaners, that puts off the purchase decision another 4 years or so. (At which point, well, everybody has their own pick for best "value" bassoon. I'd say Renard 41 on eBay if you're on the tightest of budgets. Other folks disagree.)
A plastic Yamaha isn't terrible, but Jones reeds often are. You should probably find a teacher sooner (not later) and take a couple lessons - they might even be a student at the university you plan to attend. Any halfway competent teacher will help you find a reliable source of cheaper-but-hopefully-not-crappy reeds, which will make your Senior year... better. They'll also provide a "sanity check" to make sure you don't have any bad habits that are making it harder for you unnecessarily.
If money is a concern, intermittent lessons are enough, if you actually do what the teacher tells you to do. Get this book, bring it to your first lesson, and have the teacher help you develop a practice schedule. (Not unlike a training schedule for weight-lifting. Your trainer will help teach your proper form, but most of the work is on your own and consistency is key.)
Since you sound pretty self-motivated, I'd say get a copy of the Weissenborn method book too, to work through on your own, and learn those scale etudes. :-)
Good luck.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Weissenborn-Method-Bassoon-Instructional/dp/1423484770/
Luckily this is both the easiest to get and the most essential to have while finding the others.
A very helpful book for reed making - The Bassoon Reed Manual: Lou Skinner's Theories and Techniques