Klarinet Archive - Posting 000004.txt from 2004/06

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] glissando help
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 07:57:58 -0400

On 1 Jun, "Gillian Craven" <gillian_craven@-----.com> wrote:

> ...However, when it comes to the music. eg where I have to gliss from F
> (top line) to top f, I can't seem to do this successfully. Any advice would
> be much appreciated.

A difficulty can be that you've learnt how to play the clarinet 'well', and
so have avoided the tongue positions that you need for a glissando -- during
which the sound quality is very different. So you never ever 'look' at those
tongue positions when you're trying to glissando.

Here's a post I made suggesting an exercise that is designed to get over that
particular difficulty. (I do say in the post that the sound you make during
the exercise has 'a very strange, almost strangled quality', but perhaps I
should have laid it on thicker -- it even sounds like a horse whinnying
sometimes!)

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2001/02/000780.txt

You may find that you have a better feel for what's required to do glissando
after trying the exercise.

Tony
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