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Re: Breathing

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-09-01 05:04

If you just sit (no clarinet) and breathe comfortably, what moves? Does your chest heave up and down? Your abdomen? Try it lying on your back. Don't try to breathe one way or another. Just relax and breathe. Try to yawn. What expands?

Chances are that your chest isn't moving so much in any of these experiments. Just breathe normally. Don't try to do anything in particular. Your diaphragm will drop as it flexes and air will rush in to fill the expanded space. To get exaggerated chest expansion, I suspect you'd need to make a deliberate effort.

CO2 build-up is a real thing *if* you're constantly topping off the air in your lungs and not exchanging it all for fresh air. So, you may be best off if you only take in as much air as you need for the phrase you're about to play. If you have time, by all means exhale before you inhale a new lungful of air. But not being stuck with a lot of unexpended air is also a useful approach.

Breathing through your nose has two drawbacks - your nostrils provide a smaller aperture to take air in and there's more likelihood of mucous blocking the passage further. Nasal breaths can be noisier. Still, sometimes you can get just enough extra air with a quick nasal breath to make an extra few notes without upsetting your embouchure in the process.

No rules, just some common sense.

Karl

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