Brought to you this hour by

Advertising and Web Hosting on Woodwind.Org!

Doublereed Archive - Posting 000059.txt from 2006/12

From: "Gerald E. Corey" <geraldcorey@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] BASSOON: question about Nutcracker Bsn 1 part
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:43:38 -0500

Dear Richard (et al) I have just tested this passage on my new Takeda
bassoon - It works even better than it did for 33 years in my orchestra,
Canada's National Arts Centre Orch.. Firstly I used my small finger whisper
key to hold the whisper key closed. Then, for each c3 down slur from the
normal high g3, I open the high c" key fully for the time of that note. Also
(!) I do not use any finger for left hand index for the g3's ! This aids the
quick acoustic legato required by Tchaikovsky.
If you write to me privately I will tell you how to get a copy of my book
"Bassoon Trills, Shakes and Skills" that includes all my workouts for the
Nutcracker-bassoon I. Good luck! Sincerely, Gerald Corey, Ottawa
geraldcorey@-----.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ramey" <rcramey@-----.edu>
To: <doublereeds@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:26 AM
Subject: [DR-L] BASSOON: question about Nutcracker Bsn 1 part

> Hi, everyone:
>
> I've got a question about our favorite piece, The Nutcracker. One
> annoying passage (of many), is at near the end of Waltz of the Snowflakes
> (the end of Act I). At the final Presto section, in 2/4 there is a
> difficult slur from high G down to Middle C (the actual passage is:
> eighth rest, G-sixteenth down to C-sixteenth, back up to eighth-G, then
> another G sixteenth down to C-sixteenth and finally back up to G-eighth).
> The C is difficult to sound cleanly with the tempo. Nothing seems to
> work 100%, even after practicing this a few hundred times over the years.
> The best I can do is apply the lock and "aim" my air for the C; the 1st
> slur seems to come out but the next one is hit or miss.
>
> Anyone out there have the definitive answer? And how 'bout those
> trills....(I've got a good solution to that if anyone wants to write me
> privately; no, it's not "tacet"!)...
>
> Richard
>
>
> Richard Ramey
> Professor of Bassoon
> University of Arkansas
> member, The Ramey Trio
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> For personal help: email doublereed-owner@-----.org
> Doublereed is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------
For personal help: email doublereed-owner@-----.org
Doublereed is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org