Klarinet Archive - Posting 000557.txt from 2000/04

From: CmdrHerel@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] glissando
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:20:02 -0400

In a message dated 4/13/00 8:22:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, rstein@-----.nl
writes:

<< I have asked this question on this list some time ago, but never received
an
answer. My question is "How do you make a glissando?" It is not a matter of
fingerings, I concluced, when watching fingerings. How did you do it? >>

I do the Rhapsody glissando as a combination of fingers and tongue position.

I play a chromatic scale through the low register up to D in the clarion
register. From there I begin to slide my fingers off the horn, starting on
the right hand and working through the left hand. The trick is to not do one
finger at a time, but rather all at the same time with more opening on the
bottom holes than the top ones (If that makes sense - it's hard to explain.)

While I'm doing this, I drop my tongue in my mouth and sloooowly raise it
back up into position as the gliss progresses, finally landing in place on
that C, with the previously mentioned "make 'em want it" drama.

One of the tricks of this method is to begin the gliss part fast, so as to
match the speed of the chromatic scale, and then to slow it down more and
more as you approach the top. The other trick is at the very end - you need
to keep the ring down with your left middle finger until after the holes are
all open, and then slowly raise it up for the last slide into C.

Other than that, all I can say is screw with it until you get the effect you
want. (This is my usual technique for "stupid clarinet tricks" and it rarely
fails. :)

Teri Herel

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