| Re: Breathing exercises
With regards to the breathing gym, you'll find that it works best if you spread it out thoughout your practice session. 10 to 15 mins at the beginning is great for "breathing therapy" but you'll see much more of a differance if play a few warm up things, do some excersizes, play some more warm ups, and do a couple more excersizes. Then through out your practice session if you're having a bit of trouble, set the horn down and do a couple breathing things.
I havn't actualy seen "The Breathing Gym", but Pat and Sam are on staff with The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps in Phoenix and we do these EVERY DAY. I don't know if the DVD explains the "grouping" of the excersizes, for example Flow, Therapy, Relaxation, ect. But find an order to how you're doing the excersizes. Like, what we do is start off with some relaxation techniques, then work hard on some therapy excersizes to build up lung capacity and strength, then we spread flow thoughout the rest of rehersal.
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-David Jacques |