Klarinet Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2004/06

From: "Larisa Duffy and David Dow" <duffyl@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Legato in general (was, glissando help)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 01:03:58 -0400

Another way of having the student inform themselves of going about
performing a good glissando is simply to try doing a half step gliss from
throat e to f and then increase the distance of the gliss going from d to f
and c to f onward...

Also, maybe try using the fingers alone only to get the smear quality rather
then emphasizing throat and embouchure. Once the fingers are able to
achieve a gliss over a smaller interval I notice many students seem able to
later on get the embouchure and throat to activated in the process.

Once again maybe you could let us know how the gliss is going...

The Gershwin Rhasody is an example of a gliss written out, but most
clarinetists tend to smear only at the end of the run in the clarion f...the
story is the clarinetist who first did the gliss could play it from the very
bottom note upward...and here again it must be emphasized there are numerous
approaches to playing this particular gliss.

David Dow
Symphony NB

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