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Air gets stuck in lungs...?

Author: Lisa
Date: 2004-12-02 02:30

I know this probably happens to you too sometimes, but I'd like to know what the cause and solution is for those times that the carbon dioxide gets stuck in your lungs while playing. (Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I didn't know what words to search on.)

I know the problem is that I don't use all the air in my lungs before inhaling sometimes, especially when I take a quick breath in the middle of a phrase to make it to the end. Then I breathe with everyone else at the end of the phrase and I feel like my body doesn't like the "old" air that stays stuck in my lungs for longer than it should.

Besides laying out for a few seconds, exhaling fully then inhaling again, what can I do to prevent this from happening in the first place? I think I need to unlearn something I'm doing because I'm noticing that it's happening more frequently over the past few months. AND, it doesn't happen to me when I'm playing flute or sax. I don't get why that is, either.

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