Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-04-17 22:24
SunnyDaze wrote:
> Chronic hyperventilation is largely just a habit of taking
> frequent small chest breaths instead of infrequent diaphragm
> breaths.
Are you sure your lungs have actually emptied when you take those frequent small chest breaths? Some players take frequent breaths without using up the air that's still in their lings. The result is an amount of stale (oxygen-depleted carbon dioxide rich) "air" taking up space in the lungs but incapable of supporting the player's oxygen needs. You can feel out of breath because you are in an important way lacking oxygen. This isn't, as I understand the term, strictly "hyperventilation," which involves actually hyper-oxygenating the blood.
In any case, whatever you call it, your first task probably needs to be an analytical one: why is playing in the clarion register causing you to change your breathing in any noticeable way. When I studied voice as a college student, I was taught, as you describe, to produce "mask" resonance, which involves something similar to the idea of "voicing" on a clarinet. But resonating my voice was separate from "supporting" it - i.e. providing the air flow to move my vocal chords. You probably need as you play the clarinet to consciously separate the production of air flow ("support") from the shapes you form with your mouth (embouchure) and oral cavity (including tongue position and relaxation of the soft tissues inside your mouth) to influence the quality of the sound you produce.
Maybe if you play clarion register music that is more lyrical and sustained (and/or legato scales) as a bigger part of your practice routine, you'll be able to keep more focused on breathing less shallowly as you go higher.
Karl
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