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Baermann 3 and endurance

Author: gregbaker112@gmail.com
Date: 2014-03-23 04:21

Whenever I am playing Baermann (particularly returning and interrupted scales) I run out of breath faster than I do otherwise. I think this is because I am playing them too loudly.

Short of telling myself not to play loudly is there another way to approach playing them? Would simply playing slower do the trick?

Thanks

Greg Baker
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Re: Baermann 3 and endurance

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-03-23 07:18

Breathing is essential, at least every 8 beats and at an appropriate harmonic spot. Leave out a sixteenth or even two or three.

Ken Shaw

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Re: Baermann 3 and endurance

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-03-23 17:06

Interesting, when I play scales I just stop, breathe, and pick up where I left off (I don't look at scales so much as a rehearsal for "performance technique" as much as it is a practice of individual technique i.e. note to note integrity). Since the object of the Baermann is to repeat over and over, I just breathe at the end of a random measure and pick up at the beginning of the next.

...........Paul Aviles

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