Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2007-05-23 00:10
Re: Circular breathing is about how the lungs refill with air, not about lack of articulation.
I'd state it as 'Circular breathing is about how the lungs refill with air while playing and manage to continue the sound without a noticable change in timbre, volume or pitch.'
Even that assumes a place where no cresc. or decresc. is happening, and perhaps no vibrato, either.
Try it a while, I will, too, and after I can do it on a steady tone with no vibrato, will try it with crescendos, etc., vibrato and with other phrasing nuances and see how that goes. My prediction is this is where it will render itself pretty lame. But still, one needs to give it a good try. Admiting failure without a good effort should be considered a sin, if there is such a thing.
Semi-retirement is a wonderful thing (time to mess around and experiment a bit)... and in this case, I can do this in place of my usual long tones at start of day. I also think a 'catch-breath' (quick intake) will be needed to do it, so the rhythm of natural breathing probably will not work for this.
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