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Re: circular breathing

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2010-10-10 14:06

I don't think it's really necessary to learn, but some players use it, often even.

The water and straw can help a bit but the hardest step for me was moving from that to actual playing. The straw was easy to learn. The most helpful was watching someone do it on a clarinet just in front of me. That was the first day I actually managed to do it on a clarinet.

Then it took about 10-20 minutes of practice almost every day for about 2-3 months until I was able to use it for something I wanted. Then a few more months to have better control. By that I mean mainly stamina, at first I got tired after about 30-40 seconds, then can last a minute, then two minutes, etc. When I started using it a lot less and never practiced it I got tired faster again so IME it also needs apractice to maintain the level.

I think I've played sometimes up to about 5-10 mintues with circular breathing. Some excellent players play even 15-30 minutes solos with this technique. Although I often listen to those kind of solos, which can be very good, I never tried that, but I imagine it takes a lot more practice.

Here is a short example from one piece http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3A55X6XktI

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