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Re: Breathing

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2018-09-06 16:12

I think it's worth unpacking Brad's advice 'Yawn, and put some velocity into it' a little bit. He might disagree, preferring to leave it aphoristic, but in my view a small explanation makes a useful connection.

What do you do when you yawn, that is different from just breathing in normally? The answer is, you breathe in against – and therefore overcome – the resistance of your flexed abdominal and back muscles. Those are the muscles that we use together variously to blow, defecate or give birth.

At the end of your yawn, the opposition between diaphragm and abdominal/back muscles that constitutes support is already in place, and can continue as you begin to play.

Notice also that there are different TYPES of yawn, corresponding to different degrees of support. That is, your abdominal/back muscles can be flexed to different degrees as you yawn. You can choose your type of yawn according to what gives the desired playing result as you go on – corresponding to the different degrees of support.

Tony

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