Finally Circular Breathing on Whistles !!

hatao · Post by **hatao** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:27 pm

Hi,everybody.

I had been working on leaｒning the circular breathing for few years,
and finally mastered on Tin Whislte(also low whistles).

Here are some tracks I recorded recently.

1. Eleanor Plunkett
http://www.irishflute.info/mp3/01.mp3

2. Reels (Dunmore Lasses - Green Mountain)
http://www.irishflute.info/mp3/02.mp3

3. Jigs
http://www.irishflute.info/mp3/03.mp3

4.Air"Mna Eireann" to Reels (same tune as no.2)
http://www.irishflute.info/mp3/04.mp3

In my view,basically whistle/flute tequnique is built with
the idea of Piping technique.
We do cuts/taps rolls,so why not the Circular Breathing?

I tried it,and knew I could do any whistle/flute technique
'with' the Circular Breathing.like tounging,throating,of cource
piping ornamentations.

I also tried Circular Breathing on the flute ,but it requires
so much air to produce a powerful Irish tone,so I can only play
the long note on the high register.But in few years I will...

I am also trying playing 2,3 whistles with the Circular Breathing

Please let me hear your opinion about using curcluar breating in
Irish traditional music.

JordanII · Post by **JordanII** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:34 pm

Beautifully done! How did you learn to do cicular breathing? Thanks!

hatao · Post by **hatao** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:52 pm

>JordanII

I have read about it on the book (didgeridoo ,trampet or something) and
I knew the idea.

So,you can read much about how Circular Breathing works.
And I will advice that you should start with straw and then harmonica.
Whistle require much aire than them.

So,start from straw - harmonica - tin whistle - F low whistle -
D low whistle - piccolo - flute !!

Doc Jones · Post by **Doc Jones** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:58 pm

I turned blue just listening to that....amazing.

Doc

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:28 pm

すばらし！

Seriously!

There was a current discussion about this here not too long ago.

I believe the conclusion was that it wasn't useful for ITM and probably too difficult for flute.

I feel your experiment has proven that conclusion as incorrect at least for whistle.

Its one thing to talk... quite another thing to actually do.

I look forward to your flute experiments!

Bothrops · Post by **Bothrops** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:41 pm

That was incredible. Congrats man, you're so good!!

evenstr · Post by **evenstr** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:48 pm

Beautiful, that was incredible. Keep it up.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:51 pm

I would love to learn to do circular breathing, but I am already trying to do so many other things, it will probably remain a dream for me.

Hatao,
Your playing is an inspiration.

Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:11 pm

Wow! Great playing. I would never have thought CB was possible on a whistle. Do you have a video we can watch of your amazing playing?

Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:11 pm

Wow! Great playing. I would never have thought CB was possible on a whistle. Do you have a video we can watch of your amazing playing?

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:52 pm

Adrian wrote:Wow! Great playing. I would never have thought CB was possible on a whistle. Do you have a video we can watch of your amazing playing?

Hatao appears on YouTube... someone posted links not long ago. Great stuff! http://youtube.com/results?search_query ... rch=Search

bigwig · Post by **bigwig** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:09 pm

Wow. Now I'll have to do my best to forget that this is even possible. I just sat blowing into a straw for 30 minutes and still don't get it. Yup, just forgetting that it's possible will probably help restore some self-respect.

Blaydo · Post by **Blaydo** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:48 am

hatao wrote:
3. Jigs
http://www.irishflute.info/mp3/03.mp3

Pretty amazing stuff that CB you're doing. Are you also able to take breaths whenever you want and then continue back into the CB? It' just that I think it would be a handy tool to be able to use CB for long passages but I wouldn't like to eliminate taking breaths completely as they add interest to a tune, just like any other ornament or variation.

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:36 am

Hatao, my friend ... Please return to your home planet immediately. You are making the rest of us earth people look very bad.

That is amazing. World-class technique. Roland Kirk territory. I'm speechless, or at least breathless.

hydromel89 · Post by **hydromel89** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:50 am

Awesome! I dont get how you can do it....
I can figure out the concept for the air circuit in a car (although "breathing" would not be appropriate)... but not for a human being!

I thought breathing meant successive lungs inflation/deflation, but how can you inhale and exhale at the same time?

Anyhow, fantastic result on the whistle!

Pascal.

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