Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2019-06-26 16:05
Looking at bar 20, where you breathe, through bar 27, when you've run out of breath, hmm. That's not very far.
At your given tempo, can you take a breath and then hold a single sustained note for the length of those seven bars? If not, then you would undoubtedly benefit from practicing long tones. (Note, I'm assuming you're not blasting at top of your lungs during this passage, but playing mf to f.)
If you can sustain a single note that length of time, but run out of breath playing the printed notes, then are you articulating with puffs of air? If so, don't do that. Articulation is done by stopping the vibration of the reed when required with a light touch of the tip of the tongue - the breath is not involved.
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