Breathing

[o.malhomme@laposte.net <o.malhomme@laposte.net>]

Of course breathing is as an important thing to work as one's instrument.
I am practicing martial arts for about 35 years and in that case, uneffective breathing is immediately felt as lack of endurance, injuries and so on.

And I must admit, for all my experience in that area, that when I play guitar, it arrives that so taken by what I'm doing, I forget to breath and "awakes" because lacking air. Or it arrives also that I will swallow my saliva to wrong way and end in chokes.

This a rather more important thing to work on than many may thinks because of this "new age" talk...


Regards

Olivier Malhomme


Le 8 nov. 08, à 12:39, Loopers-Delight-d-request@loopers-delight.com a écrit :

>
> > From: "Byron Howell" <howell.byron@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: OT: Music books that transcend technique...(was Re: semi-OT: i recommend Victor Wooten's book)
> >
> > I teach & practice T'ai Chi, which uses breathing as one of the
> > elements to bring about relaxation. Since I have found so much benefit for myself, I am wanting to share
> > this with others. I have played with the idea of doing local
> > workshops.
> >
> > A workshop like that is most needed. If I were anywhere near, i would
> > support. I primarily came to looping through an injury which prevented
> > me fro pursuing drum-set practice and gigging. <snip>
> >
> > The main aspect of my drumming that really sped up the injury was my
> > complete lack of awareness for my breath. Now that i have focused on
> > my breathing patterns i notice how really hard it is to keep a steady
> > pace while playing. My playing goes all wonky. Its like practicing new
> > breed excercises. The breath becomes the fifth limb. lately i have
> > begun starting my practice sessions by syncing my playing to my
> > breathing and vice versa.
> >
> > now that i am in the process of resetting my spine, i find that
> > failing to breath properly always ends up in some type of tension
> > somewhere in the body. Once you become hyper aware, its kinda a curse
> > tho...one ends up spending hours eliminating tension in the body in
> > order to play a note that not many notes get played hehe...but for
> > ultimate freedom of any injury its a nessesary process. musicians
> > playing freely now, should incorporate this aspect to make sure your
> > still doing so in 10 to 20 years. At age 26, I discovered very early
> > the perrels of improper breathing.
> > <snip>