Breathing & Air Support Tips
How do you work on breath control and endurance
Good brass playing starts with great air. What breathing exercises do you swear by? How do you practice breath efficiency, dynamic control, or recovery during long phrases? Share your insights — and ask your fellow players for new tricks to try.
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Hello, sorry for my english
Try to inflate your lower abdomen as much as possible until you feel the air rising to the diaphragm.
Once you're completely full from your lower abdomen to your diaphragm, relax all your muscles and breathe only with your diaphragm (you've already created the path for the air in your body).You can then take a full breath with your diaphragm as quickly as possible without tensing any other muscles and release the air for as long as possible.
Example:
A 1-second breath for 8 seconds of releasing the air
then 1 second of breathing for 16 seconds of release
then 1/32', 1/64', etc.