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Re: Circular breathing - discussion

Author: mschmidt
Date: 2007-05-22 22:20

>A circular breath, by its nature, removes from music its
> most powerful feature: silence. Even if the silence is only a
> fraction of a second long, it fine-tunes a performance in a way
> that constant circular breathing can never hope to match.

One can certainly add soundless gaps while circular breathing, but they can be shorter than one caused by breathing.

>The
> main reason, I guess, why many people shy away from this type
> of playing is that it takes incredible skill to be able
> to let go of, and pick up a phrase seamlessly.

What kind of playing are you talking about? The consensus here seems to be that people shy away from circular breathing. The question remains whether they do this for fundamental musical reasons or whether the musical reasons are an after-the-fact justification for circular breathing being too hard to do well consistently....

>The circular
> breath just irons over that gap...but is it really the right
> way?

Circular breathing is about how the lungs refill with air, not about lack of articulation.

Mike

Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore

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