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  • OMG! How in the world is this possible? I really need to know!

  • @SeriousFluteMan

    What brand/name of flute is that I love the gold finish and you made that like flute sound amazing! I would love to play the flute now.

  • o rany, świetne to wykonanie!:) chciałabym tak zasuwać na flecie jak ten pan... śliczne brzmienie fletu!

  • I have tried to do circular breathing on flute and have found it pretty impossible! I am amazed by this. Totally freaky and cool ability!

  • Wonderful

  • wooowww!!!

    

  • I had no idea it was even possible... I know what I'll be practicing this weekend.

  • On which notes is it easier to do circular breathing? I assume they are the notes with a wide, stable, range, but also with a good amount of resistance. So i would think notes that are fairly high are the easiest, like the D in third octave.

  • didn't think it was possible on flute. Thank u for proving me wrong... U=PRO I=N00B!!!

  • GOLD FLUTE!! i want it!!!

  • will i ever play the flute like that omg that circular breathing is just perfect!!!!!!!

  • Blow most of the air out of your lungs but fill up your cheeks with the last of it. Barely open your mouth with a pin-hole sized opening to slowly release the air in your cheeks. You're pushing the air out of your cheeks without using your lungs at all. While doing this you should be able to breathe in, and from there possibly learn to do it quicker and with more air to be able to play an instrument while doing it.

  • pretty good, but his flute is not straightly flat :| if you understand what i mean... :P

  • @Erinous When not performing in a marching band, it is not required for your flute to be parallel with the ground. Some people may prefer it to be flat while they are performing, but most people don't.

  • Quite good effort - but please, play Paganini's Moto Perpetuo + Caprices # 2, 3, 20 and Sitsky's Perpetuel Motion, perfomed by zdenek1113 on Youtube. I will be glad to discuss your approach, since I was the first flautist to perform Moto Perpetuo and also during my unaccompanied debut recitals [NY, London, Cleveland, Melbourne and American Flute convention in 1979 and 1997.

  • @zdenek1113 shut the fuck up

  • @zdenek1113 seriously stop tooting own flute asshole

  • Seamless! Kudos to you...

  • How do you circular breath without puffing your cheeks?

  • I'm making a request that you make a video how to do it. I'm a flute player and I'm dying to know! Please...?!

  • @1cakesz Robert Dick teaches circular breathing. I think he has a book about it. Look for his website.

  • Thats so friggin cool

  • cool

  • WOW!

  • Beautiful music and impressive technique!

  • *jawdrop*

    How do you do that? :O If only I were born with the ability to breath and blow at the same time.

  • @aishiteruarashi That's what she said.

  • very clever and talented, but music is as much about the rests and pauses as it is the notes (:

  • Nice video!! yeah! thanks for say hello!

    i got a question... How could you circular breathing with no puffing your cheeks?!?!

    Bye!

  • well im glad you can do it, but it would be 10xs more helpful to make a video explaining exactly what youre doing to make it work.

  • Nice work. I would love to learn how to circular breathe on the Native American Flute. It would be so meditative.

  • beautiful :)

  • nice improv man!

  • i didnt know that you could circular breath with a flut

  • i came to my friend's house yesterday and saw him suffocating on the floor. Before calling 911 i looked up at his computer screen and saw this video play :D

  • hm i learnt to circular breath on my flute last year after practising it for 3 hours a day every day for like 3 months but holy crap that guy is my new idol, im still not very good at it i can go for a minute and a half but i dont have very good tone and cant get high notes very well. man i LOVE your flute i have a solid silver open hole TJJ but i sooo want yours....(im 15) and i am sooo getting one of them in the very distant future when i have enough money to get one

  • i guess kenny g was wrong lol... well wasnt sure

  • That's awesome!!!

    I can circular breathe, but I can't get enough air in my cheeks to make noise on the flute. How did you learn to get enough air to make noise?

  • Wonderful sound and great on the circular breathing. Impressive!

  • how do u do it !

  • That's pretty cool that it works on flute. I'm glad you said "Hello" then started your videos. I hate youtube videos that don't get to the point.

  • @Nopulse1337 Your telling me about those stupid ones with 5 minute introductions with just talking.

  • Wow! I didn't know circular breathing was possible on flute! I play sax and you do it way better than me!...lol I never really practiced the technique though...

  • @ bwvbach what does that have to do with anything at all? o.O

  • Was wondering if it could be a possibility.

    Now I know :)

  • When I compose for chamber music, I create places for breathing my VST recordings. When you don't do that, it sounds very MIDI like. However, a guy like this could make any composer's job easier! Very nice.

  • Hi. Been playing flute for 18, have a degree in flute performance, and am on my way to becoming a professional (someday). Would you mind posting an instruction video on how to circular breathe? Thanks so much!  You sound great!

  • Awesome!

  • Holy good god, that was amazing. You are the MAN. I've been playing for over 12 years now and I know how to circular breathe for shorts bursts on the flute (much harder than any other instrument because you're not blowing directly into it), but it sounds like crap. Not only did you improvise a wonderful piece, and not only is your tone and your high notes rich and smooth, but you do it all while circular breathing. That takes mucho talent, man. Kudos kudos kudos.

  • seriously agreed. When I try to circular breath with a flute, I can't even GET a tone out :) He makes it look really easy. Bravo.

  • He's circular breathing guys....Im a sax player. Its not THAT hard. You simply fill your cheeks with the excess air in your lungs then use your cheek muscles to push the air in your mouth into your horn, and while you are pushing it out with your cheeks, you breathe in through your nose. lol

  • it is way easier on a sax....

  • yea, LOADS easier... easiest instrument to do it on......... except for string instruments... :P and percussion... heheh

  • um, flute is a whole different world

  • Omg! I would explode if I couldn't breathe for that long!

  • wow astounding i play flute but he makes e sound like shit lol but nice golden flute

  • whattttttttt?????????? hes good i dont know what your talking about haha

  • lol i didn't say he sounded like shit i said he makes me sound like shit lol

  • ohhhh hahaha i waslike What??

  • Astounding! I play flute myself, although certainly not this good! I am blown away (no pun intended) by that breathing technique, really! Not to mention the talent Mr. Schmitz and the beauty of the song that he played. Bravo, bravo!!

  • yeah, curcular breathing, same tech that didgeridoo

  • Hab dich erwischt!

    Aber echt genial!!!!!!!

    Was habe ich doch nur für tolle Kollegen... echt.....

    liebe grüße!

    w.......

  • Some 'how-to' please?

    Pretty pretty please, with stevia and fresh fruit on top?

  • now what would be generous of you, would be to explain everything of how you do it and how you practiced

  • watching this video makes me feel out of breath because i keep expecting him to pause for a second and breathe haha

    f-ing crazy

  • Yeah, I get the same feeling.

  • @celentanoad I second that! and thrid and fourth ect.

  • @celentanoad A tuba player at our High School (Who graduated a few years ago) Circular breathed for 7 minutes...

  • @celentanoad ikr!!

  • woow circular breathing on a flute amazing how would you even begin to do that. Impressive i like you should totally put up a video on how to circular breathe that was amazing.

  • Holy wow. o_________O;;

    Is it possible to perform circular breathing on a brass instrument?

  • yeah, a few trombone players at my school can do it, and my band director is pretty good at it on trumpet. a lot of didgeridoo players use circular breathing as well.

  • That explains why my instructor (a trombone player) has a didgeridoo in his practice room...

  • omg....all people who can circular breath are adults...ill never learn in time! :(

  • I learned when I was 14 (on a didgeridoo... I still can´t do it on a flute)

  • @ahkinzero yeh i learnt when i was like 3 months from turning 14 cuz i wanted to do it before i turned 14 now im almost 15 and i know how to circular breath on my flute, although i have not very good tone at all. i learnt to circular breath on my flute, cuz i cant play didgeridoo or any bass instruments :)

  • Wow! Amazing!

  • A very clear experiment for those who doubt such a thing is possible! Well done flute maestro!

  • I wish one day to play the flute like that.

    This video is a good piece to remember.

  • OMG!! O.o

  • NO NO NO! I ALWAYS THOUGHT CIRCULAR BREATHING ON A FLUTE WAS IMPOSSIBLE!

    You are simply incredible. eeeeeeeeeek!

  • i play flute and can hold a note for a minute or so without this technique but could you please post a tutorial on how to use circular breathing while playing the flute

  • To circle breathe you need to push the remaining air from inside your mouth/cheeks into the flute while taking a very fast breath through your nose then continue blowing with the new breath. It's not a tutorial but hope it helps.

  • Circular breathing on a flute is like doing it on the didjeridoo with very less backpressure. Nothing really difficult, just need some practise. But I wonder... Is it possible to circualr breathe on a persian nay? I can't... (I play it since yesterday, and it's the most difficult flute I've ever played).

  • if it is possible on a flute, it is possible on a ney too. not much pressure is needed, indeed, but the challenging part is to steer the air to the flutes edge

  • With the dental technique is impossible. If you ment to do it with the labial or bi labial it is possible and pretty easy too.

  • Flute is my main instrument and I can't circular breath on it (i'm 17), but i can very easily circular breath on a didjeridoo and trumpet/alto sax. Flute circular breathing is MUCH MUCH harder. It's really annoying sometimes cause i want to learn the technique for flute the most.

  • As soon as I get ahold of my flute when I'm healthy, I'm learning this technique.

  • Very awesome! I love how effortless you made circular breathing look!

  • his runs are amazing and so clear!

    Amazing!

  • This just makes me feel uncomfortable (watching the video).

    I want him to BREATHE! Feels so unnatural!

  • greatness.

    every time i hear someone using the circular technique, it always makes me breathless, literally, like i have to breath for the player.

  • xD this is awesome~

  • OMG TEACH ME HOW TO DO THIS please? lol.

  • i would like to know how to breath like that i play flute and i can hardly hold it for 4 secs!!

  • Never mind part of the post on the other video. But still would be cool to improvise over a song. Good stuff.

  • if I see you walking down the street some day... I'll pay you just for this video!!!!... one question... how you play without catching your breath? is like you never breathe....

  • circular breathing

  • Incredible. Unbelievably Incredible.

  • wow that was soo gud!!

  • circular breathing really isnt that hard once you know what to do, but when you try to apply it to the flute it becomes almost impossible. Marvelous performance by this guy im amazed at how good he is. I would really love to know how to do it if someone knows id be delighted to hear from u :)

  • I know right, I can do it on my tuba, but it's impossible on my tuba

  • como es su respiración?¿?¿?

  • trying to circular breath... i think ... im ... gonna die... *dies*

  • dang i want to do that! IM SO JELOUSE

  • Damn, it's hard for me to circular breathe on my sax, let alone a flute, you're freaking awesome man.

  • That is absolutely incredible - amazing improv too. Wow - someday I'll do this! :) Um like in a few years...

  • circular breathing is extremely hard

  • Ich höre sehr gern Ihre Musik!

  • i wish I could do that...

  • Wow. Amazing solo and improvised too. Plus the use of circular breathing! What an amazing player.

  • you rock man

  • Dude, I heard someone circular breathing in a radio show, but to see it here! Wow! Wish I could learn to do it . .tried . .oh, well! Good job!

    God is a God of Wonders

  • can anyone post a tutorial?

  • i thought this was a myth.

    i was wrong

  • omg i would love u if u can make a video showing how to do that with the flute

  • Wow, impressive all around.. circular breathing and improvised. Nice. Any suggestions for someone learning to circular breathe?

  • Yeah, I should probably learn to circular breathe too...Any suggestions?

  • holy sh*t, sic

  • yeah, i've tried circular breathing too. it's way hard to concentrate on doing it. This guy does multiphonics real good on one of his other vids, you should check it out

  • waw 2 minutes....:-)

  • Good boy!

  • Fascinating. I have studied circular breathing for the saxophone but am still not completely there yet. One reason I took up playing the flute is that it is good for people who suffer from asthma. Exercizing the breathing apparatus really clears the bronchial passages. Not to mention that the flute is a beautiful instrument.

  • is that a muramatsu flute?

    its the only one ive seen thats gold like that.

  • there's any tutorial about how to do that? I'd like to know to do that!

  • Does anyone know how to download vids onto a CD?

  • BRAVO!

    eu queria saber fazer issu na minha flauta!!!!

  • I just discovered circular breathing even existed yesterday!! Now I'm watching tons of videos about it =D

    I've tried it but so far only failed miserably. One day I hope I might get it! I play the ocarina btw, not flute.

  • I can do circular breathing, but on flute its a little more difficult....I still can't get it!!

  • Aw, not fair... it suits this piece too, to not have it interrupted by breaths. Nice job.

  • damn...I am almost there! You are making this like it's easy! Damn you!

  • for me it is easy, I do cb every day

    :-)

  • Do you know how to double tongue and circular breathe at the same time?

  • I think he is using the tongue-push technique. Most flutists use the cheek compression technique. I use the latter.

  • Yes,Abo, but makes me feel ill, its not natural, you get my admiration, and my headache

  • circular breathing I'm assuming is like being able to whistle inwards and outwards. Same basic gist, no?

  • argh thankyou so much for this video...do you think you could explain to me how to circular breathe...i think i get the concept of the "using your cheeks as lungs" but still don't know how to achieve this... any tips?

  • I love the understated 'hello' at the start of this. Also I thought circular breathing was impossible on the flute because you need so much air to produce a note so I was very impressed.

  • Only a beginner needs so much air to produce a note and one of the secrets to do circular breathing is to reduce the amount of air whilst keeping up the resonance for a big sound. This has other advantages as well.

  • damn. I thought circular breathing was impossible on flute. I'm glad I was wrong. lol. awesome that you can. do you think it would be possible on piccolo?

  • Of course! I can do it also on piccolo

  • Yea lol I agree i feel weird when i didn't haer u breahe but iwas.. and damn man, i thought circular breathing was hard on the sax.. LOL

  • this is so amazing! No matter how I try I cannot seem to store enough or be able to deliver a smooth air flow while breathing in! I think this secret is locked up at Area 51.

  • That really was amazing and well-done, Guenther. It was difficult to watch at first because I caught myself breathing where I felt comfortable while I watched you play and felt strange when you didn't breathe with me!

  • Very nice.

  • It´s very good !

    Perfect !

  • It´s very good !!! Perfect !

  • Thanks, I am always impressed by (and jealous of) those who can circular breathe. You are indeed a SERIOUS flute man! :)

  • It's like you're breathing through your flute.. Any tips? |D

  • That... That is amazing!! I have a flute, but I'ma beginner.. I didn't think that Curcular Breathing was possible on this! You're an inspiration to me. Keep it up!

  • how do you circular breathe? its probably quite hard to teach it over the internet but im dying to know how to do it. Any tips? please reply:D

  • i play the flute and i wish that it i could play that song like you

  • wow..that's amazing. I don't see myself doing that. that's sad =(

  • oh, I am sorry

    maybe one day you do this :-)

  • Hello, This is beautiful. How do I learn circular breathing? Do you teach? Where are you? Thank you, Mamaglee

  • Thank you, Mamaglee!

    I do teach and I am located in the southwest of Germany

  • Aw Shucks...It's a bit far for me to commute from California!

  • Now that's what I'm talking about! Well done!

  • Zow! That is just mind-blowing! Thanks for the demo!

  • Thank you very much for this demonstration.

    Just unbelievable! Great!

    Exactly what I have been waiting for; thanks a lot!

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