Klarinet Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 2004/06

From: "Josh Gardner" <jtgardner@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] glissando help
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:32:41 -0400

A nice little exercise that I have used in the past involves playing a note
and trying to voice the pitch down different intervals. High C is a good
note to begin this exercise. Start with a half step. Play a B natural to
get the pitch in your head and then try to voice the pitch down using not
the embouchure but the position of the tongue. Next, go down a whole step
and so on. This skill will help your ability to grossly alter the tongue
position in order to blur notes together when glissing.

It is the very same concept as whistling. The pitch is altered by the
change in air speed created by the altered positions of the tongue. In my
experience, a gliss is best produced when the tongue is positioned too low
for the fingered pitch and the fingers either play a chromatic scale or they
gradually slide off. The tongue is raised at the very end of the gliss to
raise the pitch to the desired note.

As Bryan said, it is much more difficult to type an explanation rather than
demonstrate it.

Josh Gardner

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