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Re: When can I exhale?

Author: Clarinet4hire
Date: 2007-06-20 22:10

This is what I've been taught. You take a deep breath low into your lungs. as soon as you fill up, take another deep breathe. At this point, your diaphram is pushing the air out automatically. When there are rests (short ones) don't exhale. When you run low on air take another long deep breath. I was to practice this especially in my scales in thirds very slowly. The reality is that this always keeps pressure at the back of the reed. Add that to the embouchure style, which forces you to stop closing off your throat, and it fixes a lot of bad habits, instantly.

This did in fact help my intonation, and it pushed me up to a harder reed. Both of which added to my pitch. But...... Now I can't exhale in time to refresh my air supply when I need it.

This philosophy came straight from Anthony Gigliotti ( I didn't study with him, but one of his students.). So I can't help but think the problem is with me, and how I understood this style of breathing. I can't be a problem of who taught me and how he teaches to breath.

I am a large man, so maybe my lungs are too large to breathe that deep. But so was my teacher. When I get my horn back from my repairman this week, I'm going to work on my Brahms middle movement from the Sonata#1. It's been killing me there. I'll put the advise given to me here to use. (I wish I had more time with my teacher in Denver, I know this could've been fixed before I moved here.)

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