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Author: fernie51296
Date: 2015-09-15 18:10
So I am playing El Salon Mexico by Copland on Eb. Everything is going great except I'm not sure how to do the very small downward glissando from Bb above the staff to Eb. I can do glissandos upwards just fine. Is the technique for downward glissandos supposed to be about the same? Or maybe there is something to it I just don't know? It keeps sounding like a bending of the Bflat and then the Eb just pops out. Any advice on how to properly do this would be great.
Fernando
Post Edited (2015-09-15 18:11)
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2015-09-15 21:04
I may have difficulty explaining how i do it but it's basically using my throat, sort of "singing" it down at the same time I loosen my embouchure. I don't use fingers like going up, only my throat, embouchure and maybe even positioning the tongue as I go down. Experiment with that. It doesn't have to slide all the way to be effective but most of the way to sound like a gliss.
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Author: fernie51296
Date: 2015-09-16 07:49
Interesting. I was almost certain it would have to do with some special finger work the way glissandoing upwards does. I'll be sure to try "throating" it downwards.
Fernando
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-09-16 08:13
For me it's the ol' tongue position thing. It's like your saying "eeeeYAWWW." The fingers kinda follow along sorta, but it is all about having your sound reside with a "Squeak" (if that makes sense).
............Paul Aviles
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Author: kdk
Date: 2015-09-16 16:35
fernie51296 wrote:
> Interesting. I was almost certain it would have to do with some
> special finger work the way glissandoing upwards does. I'll be
> sure to try "throating" it downwards.
>
I think it's wrong even to describe "special finger work" as needed for an upward gliss. It's still done primarily in your mouth, mostly with your tongue. Moving your fingers off the holes gradually instead of all-at-once is part of it, but a lot of the upper half of the Rhapsody In Blue gliss (from around G5) can be finished with all the fingers already up by slowly bringing your tongue back to a normal playing position.
Karl
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