Klarinet Archive - Posting 000075.txt from 2008/03

From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: [kl] Glissandi (Re: [kl] Rhapsody in Blue)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:36:21 -0400

Well, Jimmy Noone, Barney Bigard and Johnny Hodges did it with finger
"peeling" as well as embouchure.
Hodges did these very slow glissandi were the sound quality would not be
sufficient if he had started merely with slack embouchure.

best
danyel

www.echoton.de/clar.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Jacobowitz" <fbjacobo@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:13 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Rhapsody in Blue

>I am a 'jazzer', so I will second this advice. Glisses are done in the
>throat and with the lip - not the fingers. The fingers are just a way to
>get the gliss kick-started. There is really no way to explain the
>technique online. You're best bet is probably to find a jazz
>clarinetist/sax player and hope that he/she knows how to teach a gliss. If
>you're lucky, you'll come across a trained player who doesn't mind a
>little musical perversion ;-) (like me) and can help you.
>
> Fred Jacobowitz
>
> Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
> Ebony and Ivory Duo
>
> You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
> ~Doug Floyd
>
> On Mar 11, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Alexander Brash wrote:
>
>> Practice playing all notes from the thumb+octave key C down to the F
>> below that by only changing your throat, tongue position, and lip
>> position on the reed.
>>
>> The "finger peeling" is actually secondary - I find it helpful to think
>> of playing "ahead" of the fingered note.
>>
>>
>> On Mar 11, 2008, at 10:52 PM, Gary Truesdail wrote:
>>
>>> Pray a lot!
>>>
>>> GaryT
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Plummer, Julie [mailto:jplummer@-----.edu]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:41 PM
>>> To: klarinet@-----.org
>>> Subject: [kl] Rhapsody in Blue
>>>
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>> I play clarinet in a community orchestra. We are going to perform
>>> Rhapsody
>>> in Blue in mid-
>>> April and I will be playing the clarinet solo at the beginning of that
>>> piece. I'm a pretty competent player, but have never had the chance to
>>> do
>>> this piece before. I think I "get" how to do the gliss by sliding my
>>> fingers off the keys one at a time, but I would appreciate suggestions
>>> on
>>> how to do the best job possible. I have of course been listening to
>>> several
>>> recordings of the piece.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Julie
>>>
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