Hey,
Can any of you guys circular breathe? and if so, got any tips? i`ve started learning and i know it doesnt happen over night, but a little faster would be nice. When I start blowing just C#, I can`t suck the air up my nose..is there like a special technique or something you have to do to get that?!?!?!

Thanks for your time/posts
~scarlett

I haven`t quite mastered it, but you use a straw and water and try to drink the water and breathe at the same time. That`s the key to it.

this might help
1: blow through mouth keeping steady note
2: fill your cheeks while blowing
3: block your through from blowing air by lifting toung and use cheeks to push the remainging air out your mouth slowly
4: while doing step 3 take a quick breath through your nose
5: easy gently to blowing out your mouth with your lungs.

the things i found hard and had to just practice was keeping a consistant flow using cheecks, and easing the flow of air from cheeks to lungs again smoothly.

once you can do that constantly for as long as you want you gotta start playing around with playing melody`s at the same time

Thanx a lot, i`ll try those things and hopefully i`ll have it up in a few months. yay

ok, i got everything but step 3 is REALLY hard because everytime that i try to take a breath through my nose, i stop blowing out through my mouth... tips please anyone???

practice by filling your cheeks with air and then building up pressure and forcing the airs slowly out of your mouth with your cheeks and not blowing from your lungs atall..
then move on to doing this and breathing in through your nose at the same time...
then once you can do this just before your cheeks are completely empty and cant push any more air out open your through to let air from your lungs out of your mouth to, then once your lungs have not much air left fill up your cheeks and close off your through for a repeat of what yoyu did first.
in practice this makes your cheeks ache alot but they will slowly get stronger, also crossfading the air being pushed from lungs and then from cheeks smoothly is the tricky part as well as getting a good quick breath in

left out the word throat there once and also spelt it as through another time... sorry if it seems a bit garbled, let me know how u get on
Luke

Thankyou so much!!!! I actually got step 3 that time!!!!...now I just need to apply that to la saxophone...grrr

I just found out that my teacher can`t circular breathe and can`t teach me that!!! Oh woe is me.

*sigh* I guess I will just conquer on all by myself.

Thanks so much for all you guys help.

s`cool, if u wanna contact me again its lukus_@hotmail.com and u can get me on msn messenger with that address
Cheers