Klarinet Archive - Posting 000585.txt from 2000/04

From: CmdrHerel@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Glissando
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:21:19 -0400

In a message dated 4/13/00 7:01:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
daves@-----.com writes:

<< I had the chance to use my gliss (actually, isn't it a portamento when
you smear all the tones and don't go up by 1/2 steps?) in R in B this
last year. I too can really stretch it out by using the same technique
that Teri mentioned. I really agree with the finger roll bit and jaw
drop. My main comment: Don't learn how to do it! I have been fighting
keeping a crisp altissimo ever since I started doing the gliss in H.S.
You really have to keep awake to avoid smearing between those high
notes. Probably the worst thing I ever learned!
But...It was great to watch everybody's eyes bug out during the concert
when I nailed it. >>

Dave! I am hurt! My altissimo is crispy clear!

Joking aside, I do play with no tongue or embouchure weirdness. One of the
many things I work on in my daily routine is keeping a very channeled tongue
position in a very definite place in my mouth. This keeps my tone consistant
and my staccato light and accurate throughout the range of the horn.

Perhaps it is because I work on these things as much as I do that I can throw
them out the window and go hog wild for the occasional gliss or Klezmer gig?
(Sort of like eating healty every day and occasionally jambing in a plate of
ribs and a sundae - won't kill you and man is it fun.)

Teri Herel

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