Circular breathing lets you produce a continuous tone by using your cheeks as a temporary air reservoir. You squeeze stored air out of your puffed cheeks to keep the chanter sounding while you sneak in a breath through your nose.
Your cheeks work exactly like the bag on a set of pipes: a buffer that keeps sound going while you breathe. Without a bag, blowing into a chanter directly would stop the moment you stopped blowing — the cheeks solve that same problem for a chanter alone.
The hardest part isn't the concept, it's the transition between blowing from your lungs and squeezing from your cheeks. Practicing the cheek-squeeze motion on its own first, before combining it with breathing and then with the chanter, makes the skill much more approachable.
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What is Circular Breathing?
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