Questions tagged [breathing]

Breath control as it relates to playing wind instruments, rapping or singing.

Breathing has always served to satisfy two competing objectives: the delivery of oxygen to the body and providing the medium for sound generation. In the latter, there are better and worse moments to take a breath, since one would like not to spoil musical lines. A special variant, circular breathing, allows quasi-continuous playing by inhaling during playing.

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What is breathing with regard to music?

I was walking with a friend some time ago, and it happened to walk near an open-air restaurant. Some woman was singing. While I considered her singing good-enough, my friend scoffed and complained about the singer not "breathing" (properly). Now I…
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