Does anyone else have major problems with this? I can only do it for bout 45 seconds to a minute and then its like "dear god im dying!" i always feel really light headed and sick afterwards. anyone else get that?
I heard this was possible but since I`m self-taught I had no idea how to do it.
I talked to a guy that played digeridoo to see if I could pick up any tips, but he said most of it comes from the pressure of pressing into the instrument. This didn`t seem appropriate to flute somehow since you blow across it rather than into it.
As a listener, I find circular breating much more of a distraction than traditional breathing in a flute performance. Just listen to some of Sharon Bezaly`s recordings and you`ll hear what I`m talking about. She has one of my favorite flute sounds, but I find myself paying more attention to that recreational-drug-usage-like sniffing.
Re: circular breathing not good 21:11 on Thursday, February 16, 2006
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I agree with you on that Tim, I also own one of her CD`s. She plays on a gold Muramatsu and has a very dark and beautiful sound. I always felt that circular breathing was a bit unnatural sounding. You don`t hear opera singers or others for that matter doing this or it would sound kind of strange. I have never learned how to do it or tried because of this reason.
I never managed to get the hang of it, either on flute or oboe which one would assume would be easier because it uses so much less air than does the flute. I too have quit trying.
I also suspect that the ability to flutter tongue is a genetically-inherited trait (sort of like being able to curl your tongue) that was not passed on to me. Never have been able to do that either. The closest I can get is a sort of growl which I can`t sustain for long passages.
I circular breathe in a lot of pieces I play. The only thing is...you use it as a usage to get through difficult passages where there are no breath marks or ways to breathe. I don`t think anyone is meant to play a flute like Kenny g plays a sax. I do it quite often on my clarinet also along with my sax. It`s very natural sounding when you get the hang of it.
You can do it on reed instruments too... go figure!
I can`t believe while I was being taught Clarinet and Sax upto grade 7/8 that my teacher never mentioned it and I never came across it. But then again he never mentioned that you gliss/slide all the way up on a Clarinet. I worked that out myself after hearing Rhapsody in Blue.
There`s something to practise in the car on those long drives to and from work then. Thanks to whoever supplied the link to th tutorial.
I always knew that circular breathing existed, but never had any idea how to do it until yesterday (coincidentally) when an RAF band came to my school and ther was an amazing saxophonist who played the solo part in riverdance without taking a breath for ages. Afterwards he showed me how to do it. I was very impressed, but I wish I had found out a few years ago when I first started playing clarinet because it would be very useful in some of my pieces!
I find this technique fascinating. I wish I could do it. Will try in a few years... My teacher cannot do it, so she cannot help; no doubt it`s not easy.
Aurele Nicolet can play a Vivaldy Largo for say, 40 seconds and I cannot hear the minimum clue that he is breathing circularly.. or in any ther way. That was magically perfect.
I do it alot With my flute in band when we play jazz and sutch music and with my tenor Sax When we play Slow and loud music.
Even true its hard I have to do it a lot sins my band derector likes Slow, Loud ,Jazz, and Marchis.
I had problem duing it on my Sax, but now with flute.(I dont have this problem anymore)
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Mok wrote "I talked to a guy that played digeridoo to see if I could pick up any tips, but he said most of it comes from the pressure of pressing into the instrument."
I can circular breath on diggeridoo, and I totally disagree with him.
It is a lot easier to do on digg because the player incorporates a `jerk` of sound when changing to and from `squirting` air from the mouth, into the rhythm of the playing. On flute, one must make these changes imperceptible.
Tim wrote,"As a listener, I find circular breating much more of a distraction than traditional breathing in a flute performance. "
If it is done well, then there there is nothing to hear, and very little to see, just a slight movement in the throat area, that you would have during normal breathing.
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