Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2019-04-17 09:53
Hi,
I wondered if I could ask a question about breathing while playing above the break?
I am an adult beginner and I have just started ABRSM Grade 3, which means that all of the tunes that I'm playing involve repeatedly crossing the break legato.
In my grade 1 and 2 pieces I was mostly playing below the break and I found it very intuitive to use slow, controlled diaphragm breathing.
However, now that I am playing above the break I find that I instinctively move to upper chest breathing. I think this is a habit I have brought from soprano singing in which I use my head and upper chest to form the sound (possibly I shouldn't have been doing that, I'm not sure.) The result of that is that I am getting hyperventilated when I play these high tunes.
I have a feeling that I ought to change this habit so that I am still using diaphragm breathing even for the high notes but I just wondered if I could ask if that is right?
I'm really keen to get this right, because I am partly learning the clarinet to cure habitual hyperventilation, so if I could get the breathing really right that would be fantastic.
Thanks so much for thinking about it :-)
Sunny
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