Any temporary use of inflated cheeks [facial muscles] during short inhalation means also a temporary loss of enbouchure controls and therefore, limiting use of this approach to the application of circular breathinmg on flute.
Bit late I know but what a wonderfully informative piece of film. I can just about do this on clarinet and sax but this is a whole new challenge. Many thanks.
there is a sort of circular breathing you can do while double tonguing. Flutist Patrick Gallios teaches this, it's very difficult to describe without showing, but it can be done.
Hmm I actually didn't practice in my actual flute, rather then that I Whistle, all the song that I might heard by chance, and I find I can almost imitating every kind of song by whistling in its tunes, so when I actually started learning flute I almost face no problem for any breathing techniques, inspite of this, I may yet not use to flute, I'm still learning, I want to ask should I continue with this continuous whistling of mine
Thank you so much. Very clear explanation. I play quena and i'm just beginning wtih the circular breathing technique. I can't manage storing the air in the cheeks but instead store it near the throat. I don't know if it is possible to use cheeks with quena's embouchure. May be not. Is it possible to articulate clearly while using this breathing technique ?
Can anyone explain to me what 'circular' breathing does exactly? I have had a flute for a while, but never a teacher, hence I am self taught and this is the first I hear of this technique and I am not entirely sure why you would use it? Thanks, Val
brytanny11 hello! It's 4 years later now but you probably would of found the answer googling it... circular breathing is when you are blowing in and out at the same time
brytanny11 The purpose for circular breathing in regards to using this technique with your wind instruments is to hold a tone or phrase for a prolonged period instead of pausing to take a breath and start over the tone in chopped up sections. Hope that makes sense.
@@xenofeild983 there are several things you can try at this stage: 1) experiment with the angle of the air you are blowing. Maybe the air is going too high or too low. 2) use your tongue to speed up the air. The motion of the tongue is very important in circular breathing which is why 3) make sure your throat (and the base of your tongue) is not too tense.
ojtibi it’s impossible to breath in and out at the same time this is simply just another breathing technique, your storing air in your checks and using your facial muscles to push that air out while taking a breath in
