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Re: Another post of circular breathing

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2008-06-27 04:27

A techinque is only essential depending on what you want to do. Theoritcal example could be somoene who only ever want to play in C major scale. Learning D major wouldn't be essential for them, but it would be for somoene who want/need to play in D major.

IMO there are two reasons to learn circular breathing (and maybe any technique). One is technical - you want/need to play pieces that require it. The other is philosophical/emotional - it becomes a natural part of the music someone is making (i.e. the player is also a composer/improviser). Though sometimes it's both, and sometimes neither.

Koo Young Chung, it is basically how mrn explained it, though if I remember right I did hear a singer do it, or something similar to it. It was a singer of a local ethnic group (what ethnic I don't remember, sorry) and he did sing a very long phrase and said it is a way of breathing while singing. It is definitely not the same exactly as circular breathing though (maybe learned to sing inside somehow).

Here is one example of circular breathing you can hear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiOcFklfqdY&feature=related

Or here one of my favorite players/musicians, starting at about 7:15 in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hAn9LghULA

You can hear one example on clarient on my MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/nitailevi it is the song called Improvisation (short improvised clarinet solo).

Post Edited (2008-06-27 04:37)

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