[TPIN] circular breathing

[Orion Development Corp - D. Arndt]

Yep.   Like I said - I don't find a "lot" of practical application - but some.

I personnally find that I sometimes do it "intuitively" in cases where I have to hold a note, softly, for a lot longer than expected.  Catch a quick breath through the nose, while continuing the airflow, in order to sustain a bit longer.   But I can only pull it off in the middle and low registers.   And I don't use it a lot.

- da

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:11:41 -0400, William Ash wrote
> At 01:51 PM 3/25/2008 -0500, Orion Development Corp - D. Arndt wrote: 
> >I don't find a lot of practical application for it [circular breathing], 
> >quite honestly. 
> 
> It can come in handy if the bandleader holds the last note a lot longer 
> than you were expecting! Also if you're playing an extremely long 
> continuous line, such as those sometimes written by arrangers who play 
> keyboard or guitar and don't really have the ins and outs of wind 
> instruments down yet. 
> 
> Bill Ash 
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