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Author: michael
Date: 2004-05-18 16:15
does any know how to perform circular breathing on a flute?
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Author: Theboy_2
Date: 2004-05-18 22:02
cyclical or circle breathing is a rather difficult technique and takes a while to master fluently. to start off, use a straw and and blow bubles into a cup of water. and blow a steady stream of air. the trick is blowing out through your mouth while breathing in with your nose. once you can do this for hours on end, move to the instrument. and do the same technique you developed, and refine it to the instrument. still blowing out and breathing in with the nose. the trick is to take short, quick breaths in. hope this helps.
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Author: d-oboe
Date: 2004-05-19 15:10
Circular breathing on the flute is very difficult, as you have to be able to maintain a tone, while pushing air out only with your cheeks. It's probably not a necessary skill on flute, as it's a lot easier to just sneak breaths in. Circular breathing is only useful on instruments that have a backlog of air (i.e. oboe, bassoon, alto sax) and that must exhale before breathing in.
In any case, I would just stick to finding ways to breathe, rather than dwelling on circular breathing.
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Author: Joel Clifton
Date: 2004-05-20 14:17
Wow, I didn't think circular breathing was possible on the flute. I'm learning it on the clarinet right now. It's not that hard, except so far I can only do it on long tones. But the flute has no resistance, which you need to fill your cheeks. I would think that if you closed your lips to get higher pressure, you wouldn't be able to play low notes.
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Author: Wes
Date: 2004-06-21 07:41
The problem with circular breathing on the flute is to keep the embouchure fixed while having a lot of air in the mouth. Many of us would distort the embouchure while filling the cheeks with air for circular breathing.
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