Klarinet Archive - Posting 000551.txt from 2000/04

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] glissando
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:47:16 -0400

In a message dated 4/13/00 8:27:02 AM Central Daylight Time,
LoriLovato@-----.com writes:

<< Hello Rien,
Here is what helped me learn to glissando:
1. Begin on a high C and learn to
drop the pitch 1/2 step to a B while
still fingering the C.
2. Then play a B normal and then drop
the pitch 1/2 step to a Bb while
fingering the B.
3. Continue by half-steps as far as you
can.
4. Then try starting on a top space G
and glissando up to a C.
5. Do the same starting on D to G in
the R. Hand.
6. After learning the R & L hand glissandos
separately, put them together. >>

I learned to glissando when one day, in a big rush, I brushed my teeth then
gargled in the shower, all while humming Rhapsody in Blue.....

Actually, Lori's advice sounds like it would really do the trick.

WG

P.S. Heard Shifrin play R in Blue gliss once in a live performance....he made
the gliss last about ten minutes........and it was as even and smooth as you
could imagine.....he made you WAIT for that resolution to the high "C"........

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