Author: Laurelin
Date: 2011-11-30 22:47
Oh, he's doing that new thing. He isn't just singing and playing. He's using circular breathing - air in the cheeks - to play the clarinet, and singing with the rest of his air. So if you wanted to do what it looked like he was doing right there, you'd have to be able to both circular breathe and sing/play.
Sing/playing is actually pretty easy to figure out - I just sang with the mouthpiece in my mouth, and then added enough air to it so that I could play and sing. Requires a LOT of air, which is probably why Frost decided to go the circular breathing route. It also interferes with the actually sound you are producing - you can get a pretty nice growl if you sing close to what you are playing - but that doesn't appear to happen if you are circular breathing at the same time.
My major problem(s) with circular breathing right now is getting the note to sound - if I'm using my cheeks, there tends to be either no note, or an accented/loud one that pops out. I'm not sure if this is an embrochure thing, a cheek strength thing, or a 'you have to figure out the complicated part first' thing.
Complicated part would be where you switch from using lung air to using cheek air without breaking the note....
Of course, Martin Frost can apparently play without using lung air at all, so I'm going to take a leap and say it isn't because I'm not playing a note before trying to use my cheek air.
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