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Re: Air support exercises

Author: Roxann
Date: 2017-05-28 06:25

My teacher hit on this just yesterday. She laid down on the floor, took a really heavy book (big dictionary) and laid it on her stomach. Then she demonstrated how we would normally exhale (the book descends towards the floor as you breathe out), then she demonstrated how the book SHOULD behave. It SHOULD rise as we tighten our core muscles and exhale. Then she took the book, put it horizontally at her naval and stood against a wall with the book between her and the wall. As she exhaled, her body actually went away from the wall because her abdomen (and ribs and back) all went outwards instead of inwards. Then she had me do both exercises. Then we transitioned it to the clarinet. What a difference in sound it made!

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