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Author: Benjamin
Date: 2002-01-24 11:49
What do you mean by breathing deeply from your lungs? How do i train to blow notes for 20 seconds without breathing?
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Author: jez
Date: 2002-01-24 12:07
When you breathe in, don't expand the rib-cage, the lungs have more room to expand downwards than outwards. The diaghragm is a dome shaped muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen. To pull it down & really fill up with air push the stomach outwards (try to burst your belt)
Keep pushing as you blow to control the flow of air.
For a special long note breathe OUT as much as possible and then fill up with air several times to get as much oxygen into the system as possible before you play. (hyperventilate) I think that actually running out of air rarely happens. More often it's the brain telling you that it's short of oxygen. If you're really running out of air after 20 seconds try a more resistant mouthpiece/reed combination.
Good luck
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Author: William
Date: 2002-01-24 15:52
"If you're really running out of air after 20 seconds try a more resistant mouthpiece/reed combination."
Don't confuse "more resistant" to mean "harder reed" --which may be your problem in the first place. Too hard a reed will not virate efficiently on your mpc and consequently, you will waste a lot of air producing a "breathy" sound in the process. A reed of proper strength (not too hard nor too soft), will vibrate more efficiently--with more resistance or resiliency--and produce the sound without wasteing your breath. My middle school beginning clarinetists (second semester) could easily hold long tones (like open G at MP-F volume) for 30 secs. using beginning strength reeds (VD 2.5s) and all they knew was to "sit tall and breath deep." So, select a good reed, use a firm (but not biting) embouchure, take a deeeeep breath, fix your eyes on the second hand--and, Good Clarineting!!!!!!!
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-01-25 04:29
It is perfectly OK if you want an extra big breath to fill up the chest area as well. The best singers do it - often as imperceptible as possible.
See my post in the other 'breathing' a little up the list.
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Author: Emms
Date: 2002-01-25 08:37
Jez -You have to be careful with hyperventilating - it can cause you to faint, or go dizzy. If the brain tells you you're short of air, you need to breathe!
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Author: graham
Date: 2002-01-25 16:35
Following from Emms, the reason hyperventalting is dangerous is that it does not materially increase the oxygen in the blood, but it does flush out CO2. It is the build up of CO2 in the blood which triggers the desire to breath. By artificially reducing your CO2 you fail to breath before running low on oxygen and the result is that you faint.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-01-26 10:37
Over the years I had a number of flute pupils who got dizzy when playing.
Within 6 months or so the problem had gone, so presumably the body adapts to conditions to which it is regularly subjected.
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