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Author: Jeff
Date: 1999-12-10 20:58
I am really curious at how you do them. No one has ever explained them to me. i think they are really cool, but I can't do them.
Thanks,
Jeff
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Author: Jessica
Date: 1999-12-10 21:19
Jeff,
I'm no pro, but I guess I can gliss OK. What I did to learn was play a high C (2nd leger line) and start to bend it down. You have to drop the jaw and open the throat. After a while you will be able to get it down to about a G. To gliss up (like in Rhapsody in Blue), I open the throat and pull the fingers off of the holes sideways. Have fun getting weird with your clarinet!
Jessica
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Author: GKF
Date: 1999-12-11 01:51
I'm no expert, either...
But I agree with Jessica -- I do the same things...
A little advice that might help is to use very LIGHT pressure when sliding the fingers off..
GOOD LUCK!
GKF
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Author: Tim2
Date: 1999-12-11 03:57
Yes, light pressure but you must support for the tone to carry through. And I find myself rolling off not just one finger at a time but when the third is half rolled off, start rolling off the second, then when the third is off and the second is half way off start rolling the first off.
More than anything, it is important to concentrate on your sound, keep it centered as best you can as it climbs.
It's interesting, I've never heard a downward glissando. Physics or technique?
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Author: tree
Date: 1999-12-12 01:57
Just think ofhow you were taught NOT to play, and do that
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Author: Jim Carabetta
Date: 1999-12-12 19:53
>>physics or technique
Both Tim2. The physics of changing your "resonance chamber" ..ie, mouth cavity.. slackening your jaw.. in order to bend the tone downward, and the technique involved in performing that skill. Down-gliss is easier is you can bend the notes downward.. you can actually then finger every second or third note.. bending the rest. Try it with scales to practice. Play a Hi-C.. drop your jaw and try to flatten the tone to a B; then finger the A, and bend down to the G, and so on. Once you can do that smoothly, go back and try bending from the C to the A, finger the G and bend down through the F to the E. Takes practice but it's more than do-able.
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Author: Tim2
Date: 1999-12-13 02:24
I will give that a shot, Jim. I've only heard upward glisses. Downward glisses - well just thinking about doing one kind of give me chills like scraping the wrong way on a blackboard. But what you say reads like it should work. I'll see what I can do this week. Thanks.
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Author: Jessica
Date: 1999-12-13 04:53
Tim,
For a classical example of a downward gliss, check out the Eb clarinet solo in Copland's El Salon Mexico. It has a gliss from a Bb above the staff to an Eb. I had to do it last year and managed by fingering the Bb, opening up until I had hit the G, then immediately fingering the G and glissing the rest of the way to the Eb. Also, not only is there the big gliss up in Rhapsody in Blue, but towards the end of the solo, a lot of players do a downward gliss from the high F to the high D.
J
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Author: Meredith H.
Date: 1999-12-15 01:04
I have tried opening my throat but I tend to play with an open throat anyway so this has never helped. I would love to be able to Gliss but I just can't do it no matter how hard I try. As soon as I start sliding my fingers off of the keys I either lose the sound entirely or I squeak. Why is this so hard for me, please help.
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