Klarinet Archive - Posting 000624.txt from 1999/12

From: "Danny Ehrhart" <saxman105@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] circular breathing
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 19:06:17 -0500

Just how do you go about learning circular breathing. I tried to do it a
long time ago but was ill-informed on how to do it and failed to achieve the
desired affect. Of course I might just have given up too early to recognize
a wanted result. But I've seen it done and thought it was pretty cool.

Danny Ehrhart

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-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.edu>
Date: Sunday, December 19, 1999 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] circular breathing

>Well, **I** use it! I can play Debussy's Rhapsody EASILY because I don't
>have to worry about those formerly impossible passages at the beginning
>and near the end. All of a sudden, Rach 2 is a breeze (performed it and
>had a wonderful time putting all those fiddle players to shame with their
>"long lines"). I can also do justice to the long lines in the Brahms
>Sonatas and the Quintet, and I can even show off doing Paganini's Moto
>Perpetuo. Charlie Neidich uses it (you don't get much better than him).
>Oh, and the quote got it bass ackwards: you breathe in through your NOSE
>and out through your mouth.
>
>
>Fred Jacobowitz
>Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory
>
>On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, jim and joyce wrote:
>
>> >>Saxophonists, like other wind instrument players, all
>> >>use circular breathing - you fill your lungs and neck
>> >>with air and you try to breathe in through your
>> >>mouth and out through your nose," said Dr
>> >>Sanjay Kinra,
>>
>> Sounds like the drug smoker technique of choice.
>>
>> Seriously, who on the list uses circular breathing? or can even do it?
>> Not me.
>>
>> jim lande
>>
>>
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