Author: vboboe
Date: 2008-06-08 04:14
<<next lesson>> ??? my 2-bits
EXHALE-inhale = basic oboe breath exchange technique
Breath mark in oboe music = EXHALE-inhale
Breath mark in everybody else's music = take a big breath in
Oboe music -- means the opposite!
use oboe breath exchange technique at (suitably long) breath marks in printed music, and pencil in other breath marks, meaning same thing, to suit own breathing needs. Keep practising this until re-trained mind and muscle can do it habitually.
to do the EXHALE, retrain the abs, chest & rib-cage muscles
normally these muscles work hard to expand the rib cage, and then relax to let the rib-cage collapse under its own weight, so it's a lot of willed effort to reverse things. For oboe breath exchange, the muscles have to work at squeezing the rib-cage smaller rather than expanding it.
Relax muscles to allow air to flow back in 'on the rebound'. Breathe through mouth opened around reed resting on lower lip. It's sort of like forcing a cough, but done very quietly and discretely!
This squeezing empties the lungs more quickly than normal breathing.
Normal breathing just isn't like this, so it has to be learned, and practised often
good starting exercise -- blow long tones 4 beats alternately with 4 beats rest for EXHALE-inhale, a tempo, very mechanically for duration of exercise
can lengthen the long tone -- and shorten the rest -- for next level of breath exchange exercise
practice count-in bar with a breath exchange in readiness for first attack, and after last note any piece finish up with one last official breath exchange before reverting to normal human breathing again
Of course, most breathing is done at rests, but when the music's long on blow and short on rests, efficiency is at a premium for expelling backed-up stale air, well, muscles used to normal breathing just aren't going to be so efficient at pumping the lungs out unless they've been exercised at it
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