I remember a music teacher telling me, "Don't forget to breathe". I thought that was him being funny, but it turns out there are many benefits to focused breathing. Before you play your instrument, try this simple breathing exercise. It's known as Box Breathing . Some of the benefits of box breathing are: calm any performance anxiety helps you to focus reduces tension in your body If you can, try to breathe through your nose. You can set your metronome to 60bpm and count 4 b
