Breathing exercise #4
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John O'NeillJohn O'Neill's fourth breathing exercise, with your hands on your rib cage to feel the sideways expansion of your lungs as you breathe.
What's in the course
25 lessons (2h 10m) · 1 free
01. Posture
13:20
02. Fingering
4:10
03. The breath
4:12
04. Breathing exercise #1
3:24
05. Breathing exercise #2
4:34
06. Breathing exercise #3
2:29
07. Breathing exercise #4
You are here1:27
08. Breathing exercise #5
2:27
09. Embouchure & your first note
9:46
10. Troubleshooting your first note
9:34
11. Developing your sound
3:43
12. Tonguing exercise #1
4:36
13. Tonguing exercise #2
6:49
14. Final thoughts & practising
1:57
Lesson transcript
Exercise: Expanding Breath Awareness
So the next exercise is with your hands at the sides.
Understanding Lung Expansion:
What's happening here is that your lungs expand, which causes a necessary displacement.
- When the lungs expand, the floor of your chest cavity , your diaphragm , moves downwards.
- This results in an all-round expansion:
- Front
- Back
- Sides
Instructions:
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Hand Placement:
Put your hands on the sides of your rib cage. -
Breath Exercise:
- Breathe in through the mouth, making sure it's not too big a breath.
- Focus on feeling the expansion.
This time, we're concentrating on the sideways expansion and then making your whispered R sound.
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
John O'Neill is the saxophonist behind The Jazz Method for Saxophone - the Schott series that has taught a generation of players around the world to improvise. First published in 1991, it remains one of the best-selling jazz tutors ever written, alongside his companion methods for clarinet and flute.
He came to the saxophone at twenty, while reading French and German at Trinity College, Oxford, after hearing John Coltrane. He went on to study with British tenor great Don Rendell, and took improvisation from Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh and Peter Ind - direct heirs of the legendary teacher Lennie Tristano. A professional musician since 1979, he specialises in jazz and bossa nova and has played London's leading venues, including Ronnie Scott's, while also writing music for film, television, theatre and dance.
A qualified teacher with decades of experience, John has taught saxophone, clarinet and flute privately and in schools, on the jazz course at Trinity College of Music in London, and at summer schools in Spain and the Czech Republic. He still performs and teaches from his home in North London.
