INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Don't wear any type of balm or cosmetics on your lips. Either brush your teeth first or gargle with mouthwash before you play your bassoon. Otherwise, food and bacteria residue can build up on your reeds and affect how they play. Keep your instrument at a 45 degree angle across your body. Holding it straight up can interfere with fingering and playing the lower register. Embouchure refers to the placement of your mouth, lips and tongue when playing an instrument. Place the reed in your mouth. Cover your teeth with your lips, keeping your lips relaxed. Don't bite down on the reed or flatten out your lips. Imagine that there is a drawstring in your lips, and someone is pulling the string towards the back of your mouth, forming a cushion over the reed with your lips. Your upper lip should almost touch the first wire. Keep your chin muscles stretched downward and your cheeks smooth. Practice in front of a mirror to make sure your embouchure is correct. Use the tip of your tongue for articulating; for example, accent and staccato. Think of the way you would move your mouth to say the word "dough." If you are playing very fast, there is a special method for that called "double tonguing." Repeatedly make the noises of the letters "d" and "g" in succession inside your mouth, up against the reed. Breathe in with your diaphragm and out with your abdominal muscles. To better grasp this technique, try relaxed breathing by lying on your back on the floor (without your bassoon). This is a simple way to observe how you properly breathe with straight posture. Consult a fingering chart and keep it nearby for reference while you are still learning. The whisper key is your left thumb's home base. Don't rest your right thumb on the bassoon. If you want to play sheet music, you'll need to learn music notations. You can learn how to read music and play the bassoon simultaneously by taking lessons. Practice fast and slow air flow. This will help you to observe how air stream affects pitch. Blow into the bocal slowly. Then increase your air flow without changing your embouchure. Practice vibrato. Vibrato is when you add pulsing to notes. Try not to use pressure from your jaw to make a vibrato effect. Use your abdomen primarily and your larynx secondarily to create vibrato pulsations.

SUMMARY: Make sure your mouth is clean. Position the bassoon. Practice embouchure. Place your tongue properly. Breathe comfortably. Learn fingering. Try different air techniques.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: You can use Google Calendars in conjunction with Gmail to create a digital tickler file that will remind you daily to check it. In order to do so, you will need a free Google account. If you want to make it a little easier to keep your tickler items and your regular calendar separate, creating a new calendar will let you add items that you can easily toggle on and off. It also allows you to set different reminder settings. Click the boxed arrow icon next to "My calendars" in the left menu. Select "Create new calendar" Title the calendar something like "Tickler". You can give it a quick description if you'd like. Click the Create Calendar button when finished. Disable your main calendar when creating filling out your tickler events. This will make it easy to ensure that the event ends up on the correct calendar. You can toggle calendars by clicking the colored box next to the calendar's name in the left menu. For each item on your daily tickler, create a new all-day event on that day. To do so, switch to Weekly view and look for the thin bar at the top of the calendar underneath the dates. Click the blank bar to open the New Event pop-up. Click the "Edit Event" link to open up the detailed event editor. Enter in all the details of the tickler item. Enter in a title, any pertinent locations, a detailed description including any email addresses or websites that you may need. You can even copy and paste excerpts from documents you need. Add a color code if you want to add an extra layer of visual organization. Remove the Reminder if there is one, You will be setting up a different reminder system. As with a physical tickler file, ensure that you put the item in on the day that you need to start it. Once you have all of your tasks entered into your calendar, you can set Google Calendars to send you a daily reminder email summarizing everything for that day. To do so, click the Gear icon in the upper-right corner and select Settings. Click the Calendars tab and then click the "Reminders and notifications" link for your tickler calendar. Check the "Daily agenda" box. This will send a list of all your tickler items for the day to your Gmail account at 5 AM every morning. You can then review this list as you start your day. As you gather more tickler items, make sure to file them on the appropriate days. Try to set aside a day or two a month to ensure that everything has been entered properly. If you find yourself repeating certain items a lot, you can schedule them to repeat automatically so you don't need to keep adding them.

SUMMARY:
Open the Google Calendars web app. Create a new calendar. Create all-day events. Receive a daily agenda. Continue filling out your days.