User's Guide

When you blow more air, the sound intensifies, and when you blow
more lightly, its intensity decreases. When you stop blowing, the sound
stops.
Take a moment to appreciate the relaonship between how hard you
blow and how intense the sound is. You should noce that the way
you breathe has an impact on the mbre of the instrument: loud notes
seem brighter, and so notes seem darker.
NOTE
You can generally observe this in most sounds, but somemes your breath will have
a more dramac effect on the mbre (like making it roar), and somemes it'll be less
pronounced (like merely changing the volume).
Even if the sound somemes seems to linger or reverberate for a bit
aer you stop blowing, your breath is its fuel: it provides it with energy,
makes it exist, and keeps it going. Using your breath, you can shape
a note a bit like you would brush a stroke on a canvas: during your
gesture, you determine exactly how and where you want to apply your
ink to the painng
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. There are many ways to shape a note. Let’s try
some of them:
Short and long
Try several note duraons, from really short
notes to really long ones.
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And somemes your brush ends up running out of ink in the middle of a stroke, so
don’t forget to breathe!
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