[Trombone-l] blogs, breathing vs. blowing

[Gabriel Langfur]

I tend to think that if you're doing breathing exercises with careful attention to form and timing, they are as much about exhaling as about inhaling. I recently bought a couple of breathing toys, including the "Breath Builder" - the ping pong ball inside a tube with breathing tubes attached. To keep the ball suspended over a period of time, you have to be blowing OUT steadily over that entire period of time, or it will drop before you are done. Interesting...I'm still figuring out how to use it effectively. 

Gabe

----- Original Message ----
From: Denton Thomas <dentonlt at usa.net>
To: trombone-l at samford.edu
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:43:09 PM
Subject: [Trombone-l] blogs, breathing vs. blowing


Ladies and Gents,

What trombone-y blogs/columns you all read?  I keep up with Jay's 
Reflections and some of Matt Guilford's blog.  Any others you recommend?

Second, I'm looking for information/exercises about blowing.  Not 
breathing, exactly, but blowing/exhalation & efficiency.  I know lots of 
good breathing exercises and I do some daily (keep moving, 4in 4out 
gradually longer, expand by holding/sipping, use intercostals not the 
glottis, many other jewels).

Blowing exercises seem somewhat elusive.  I know some concepts from Jan 
Kagarice, and bits from reading about hatha yoga.  Good reading and/or 
practice suggestions wanted.

Despite what some are thinking, I am disinterested in nsfw comments on 
blowing ... :p

Denton

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