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Yes, it can be confusing! 2reed.net has thousands of files created from decades of Terry Ewell's work. Here are important items and indices to the website:

Online Course of Study for Bassoon with materials in sequenced order for beginning to advanced students.
Método: Music of the Americas for Bassoon (Método: Música de las Américas para fagot)--Beta Testing. This contains over 80 lessons. Levels 1-4 each contain studies, ear training, echo playing, melodies, duets, and excerpts.
Topical index to videos and other materials.
And don't forget the search functions for materials and YouTube videos.

New Items:

Oc. 2024 Weber Andante and Hungarian Rondo videos 1-3 in Hungarian, Reed finishing videos #5 completed in Ukrainian.

Sep. 2024. Reed finishing video #6 completed in Hungarian, Reed finishing videos #3&4 completed in Ukrainian. Método level 5 was started, the draft of Modules 1-1& are completed. Fixed the accompaniment files for the 1st mov. of the Schreck Sonate.” or "basso continuo."

Aug. 2024. New websites and materials created for Hungarian and Ukrainian languages.

July 2024. Updated Spanish translations for Método 4-17 to 4-20.

May-June 2024. Duet accompaniments completed for Método 1-1 to 1-10; 4-12 to 4-19. Created mp3 files for Petrovics, Passacaglia in Blues, and Vivaldi, Concerto in C, RV 473.

April 2024. Recovered the Contrabassoon Fingering page lost by the International Double Reed Society. Updated the website for Método.

March 2024. Performance of Galliard's Sonata No. 3 and other links: https://2reed.net/bdp/bdp_baroque.html#Galliard

Feb. 2024. Continued work on Método.

Jan. 2024. Phase 1 of Método was completed on January 5th. It contains over 700 pages of materials. Phase 2 will be completed in later years with practice files for the duets.

Oct.-Nov. 2023. Método now contains over 550 pages of materials. All of the 80 lessons are now completed with futher updates possible.

June-Sept. 2023. Numerous updates to Método have been made.

May 2023. The first drafts for all of the lessons in Método were finished. Russian and Spanish translations of the video on fingering technique.

April 2023. Russian and Spanish translations of the video on counting rests.

March 2023. Beta Testing begins for Método: Music of the Americas for Bassoon (Método: Música de las Américas para fagot). Chinese Beginning Bassoon Lesson 6.

February 2023. Chinese Beginning Bassoon Lessons 4 and 5. Chinese, Russian, and Spanish videos for Orefici's 17th Melodic Study.

January 2023. English video for Orefici's 20th Melodic Study. Chinese, Russian, and Spanish videos for Orefici's 16th Melodic Study.

Past Updates Since 2018

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This website is developed for double reed musicians, teachers, and performers throughout the world. In this site you will find many aids to helping you grow as a performer, teacher, and person. We hope that this site will greatly encourage you as you continue to learn more about double reed performance and living as a musician. Here we are sharing our talents, knowledge, and life experiences. May God richly bless you as you visit this site.

Terry B. Ewell

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