The Breathing Book is both a text book and a method book. Each chapter contains an image and description on the left page and a playing activity on the right. The playing activity is specially designed to help players integrate the information from that chapter into their playing in musically meaningful ways. The Breathing Book can be used as a daily breathing warm-up by selecting a few chapters to play. It can also be used to solve other playing problems, such as articulation, range and endurance because when your breathing improves, everything else tends to fall into place!
Author David Vining is currently associate professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. Previous teaching appointments include the University of Kansas and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Mr. Vining has a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from Florida State University, where he studied with John Drew, and a Master's of Music Performance degree from Bowling Green State University (OH), where he studied with Paul Hunt. Other important influences to his teaching and playing include: John Marcellus, William Cramer, Arnold Jacobs, Ralph Sauer and Eric Carlson. Mr. Vining is a popular clinician, presenting clinics and workshops throughout the country as a clinician for Conn-Selmer Musical Instruments. He is a certified member of Andover Educators, a consortium of music educators dedicated to preserving and enhancing the careers of musicians through accurate anatomical information and somatic awareness as applied to music-making. Through a unique and powerful tool called Body Mapping, Professor Vining helps students in all disciplines avoid injury and become better musicians.
As trombonist with the Chestnut Brass Company from 1985-1990, Mr. Vining toured the United Stated and Europe performing recitals, master classes, and concerts with orchestras. Mr. Vining may be heard with the Chestnut Brass Company on the Crystal, Musical Heritage, and Newport Classics labels.
Mr. Vining has performed orchestrally with the Flagstaff Symphony, Cincinnati Opera Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, Kansas City Camerata, Fort Wayne (IN) Philharmonic, Toledo (OH) Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra.
The Breathing Book for Bass Trombone by David Vining is appropriate for all levels of trombone players.
32 pages, spiral bound to lay flat on the music stand.
