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Re: Rhapsody in Blue

Author: Tom H
Date: 2018-08-26 02:32

Some very good detailed descriptions. I particularly like the idea of varying the speed of the gliss and often do that when playing Dixieland.
My approach is simple. The relaxing of the jaw an appropriate amount as described above. With the fingers---say you are glissing from all 6 holes covered to all open: You begin with lifting the bottom finger slightly, then the next one (RH middle finger) slightly as the first hole is now a bit more open. Then you begin gradually lifting all fingers off gradually, with the lower ones opening up the holes more than the upper (LH) ones. Glissing using keys (ie. going over the break, for one example, or glissing through the throat tones) is much more difficult, but can be done by very gradually pressing/releasing the key(s).

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