Tuba Playing Breathing Techniques

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Hi, well now that we've made some sound with our mouthpieces, we're going to do some breathing. And breathing, when you're playing a wind instrument, or an aerophone, is the most important thing. Breathing, if you feel your chest move up, you're not breathing deep enough. You have to make your belly fill up first, so you put your hand on your belly and you breathe in through your nose and you fill up your diaphragm and your belly, and then...from top down again. Kevin will demonstrate how to buzz his lips, and to breathe properly through the instrument while he plays some notes! Oh, I think maybe you could play some notes with the instrument, Kev. Now Kevin is getting low notes by loosening his lips slightly and he gets his higher notes by tightening them together and pushing more air through the instrument. Everything comes from the diaphragm out, all the breathing comes from in the nose, fills up from the bottom to the top, and then out from the top to the bottom. And you can think of your diaphragm as a balloon. If you want to see if you're doing it right when you breathe in, feel it swell up like a balloon that's getting blown up. And as you press it and play notes you should feel it starting to reduce the swelling like a balloon with the air coming out of it. Breathing!

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