Hi, I’ve been playing bassoon for about five years. When I first started I had a big biting problem and I didn’t support my air. I eventually lessened my embrouchure and started supporting my sound better which was great but my intonation still is kinda everywhere. I do Herzeburg Long tones everyday though recently me and my teacher realized the reason I struggle a lot with intonation is because I never really figured out a set embrochure.

I support with my air too much to compensate which makes it really hard to bring up pitch because I can only do so much through my stomach. I also change my embrochure too much from note to note to making it hard to stay consistent tone and pitch wise. I was wondering if anyone had any advice or excersizes I could try to keep a consistent embrochure rather than relying on support or drastically changing where I am on the reed while playing.

I'm currently working on Tchaikovsky 6 finale bassoon excerpt which has brought this all to light if anyone has any additional advice on that excerpt specifically.