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Author: nellsonic
Date: 2016-09-09 00:02
If you don't have any use for it, don't. I can think of several reasons it would be nice to be able to do - maybe as many as one less than the number it would take to make me invest the time to learn it.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2016-09-09 06:38
nellsonic wrote:
> If you don't have any use for it, don't. I can think of
> several reasons it would be nice to be able to do - maybe as
> many as one less than the number it would take to make me
> invest the time to learn it.
lol. Love this!!!
You'll be just fine without it. Myself? I work on it. I've used it a VERY small amount of times while performing, and no one has noticed (so far). Although honestly, I'm not sure anyone would care either way whether I sneak a breath or play continually over the places I chose to use it.
I use it when I'm playing phrases that would be considered "color" to a piece. Not the melody, not a countermelody, but places where the clarinets are just trilling for a very long time, or noodling up and down in a scalular fashion in the background just to add "color" to a piece. Think of the violins in the main Harry Potter theme song noodling in the background of that 3/4 pattern. It's not like every note is needed to be heard exactly where it is, all even and precise....it's just colorful runs in the background. But a BREAK in that background noise would be heard more than a small decrease in volume during a circular breath.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: JonTheReeds
Date: 2016-09-09 16:34
This is one reason to do
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=811512925598118
Not that I am at level where circular breathing would really help me - the fingers still let me down!
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2016-09-09 21:17
The Facebook clarinetist is impressive but still sounds like he is playing a demonstration exercise rather than performing music. Anybody know his name?
A more mainstream performance using circular breathing is Istvan Kohan's very musical and well-phrased Bach Sonata in g minor for Violin. His technique is even throughout and his tone is consistent:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Istvan+Kohan+clarinet+Bach+sonata+in+g.
Several clarinetists who make their living mainly as solo performers use circular breathing routinely. In most performances by Martin Frost, he employs the technique regularly, even when the phrase length could easily be played without it. Julian Bliss and Jose Franch Ballester are other soloists who come to mind. Because they have so thoroughly incorporated the technique into their style, one cannot tell aurally when they are using it, but the puffed cheeks are a visual giveaway.
Ballester makes good use of the technique here to weave some very long lines in the Adagio of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet (with the Camerata Pacifica):
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jose+Ballester+Brahms+Quintet+Adagio.
Post Edited (2016-09-10 19:02)
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2016-09-10 16:55
I can only do it without playing. It takes many many hours for most people to learn to do it properly while playing. You fill your cheeks with air and while you let the air out of your mouth that way you breathe in through your mouth. I was told to practice with a straw, then in a glass of water with the straw, and slowly learn to do it with your clarinet. That may be simplistic but that's how I saw it demonstrated in my clarinet class by a student of mine that could do it rather well. I never thought I really needed it in my career though a few times it would have come in handy in some very long passages. If it knew about it while I was a student, or not overly busy playing and teaching I might have spent the time learning it but not in my later career. Good luck and be patient.
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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