Breathing Book for Euphonium, 2nd Edition

The Breathing Book for Euphonium (Second Edition) by David Vining, edited by Alexander Lapins, is appropriate for college through professional euphonium players.

Breathing is one of the most important fundamental skills for euphonium playing because it provides the foundation for many of our other fundamentals including tone, articulation, range, endurance, intonation, flexibility, and phrasing. If you want to improve one of these important musical attributes, start by improving your breathing. The Breathing Book is a blended textbook and method book—it contains information about breathing and activities designed to help you use the knowledge as you play euphonium. The Breathing Book is not an exercise book—it's a "learn how to move" book and includes videos for some of the chapters and movements to clarify the content. The Breathing Book explores all the individual movements of breathing and, in the end, will help you coalesce them into a singular, well-coordinated, and organic motion.