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Gliss to high C

Author: MattR
Date: 2017-06-19 17:50

Does anybody have any fingering suggestions for a gliss to high c?
i.e. at the end of the Shaw concerto

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Re: Gliss to high C

Author: John Peacock
Date: 2017-06-20 13:52

Keep them crossed.....

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Re: Gliss to high C

Author: TomS
Date: 2017-06-20 19:55

I make a kind of "guhhh" sound by the raising the back of my tongue in the throat and sliding my fingers with some modulation of embouchure ... I had an unusual knack for this when I was 15 years old, and could impress my friends with my glisses, spanning upward octaves from clarion C to about and A or B ... otherwise, my playing was mediocre at best ...

Experiment.

Tom

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Re: Gliss to high C

Author: TomS
Date: 2017-06-20 19:58

Whoops! you meant "super C" ... nope, not a clue how to do this, but once you are up in the stratosphere, things are pretty unstable as it is ...

Experiment.

Tom

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Re: Gliss to high C

Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-06-21 20:07

The gliss, as Tom C points out, that you wish to achieve, is to C7:

[C7]

The best suggestion I can offer here, having no experience in this, is to try to speak with some people who come to mind, that might know:

David Kraukauer

http://davidkrakauer.com/contact/

Michele Gingras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI8GVaIPOj8

Doreen Ketchens

http://www.doreensjazz.com/

Hardly would these be an exhaustive list.

Post Edited (2017-06-21 20:11)

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Re: Gliss to high C

Author: RBlack
Date: 2017-06-21 21:08

I have performed a piece before which had a gliss going from top clarinet B up to high B, and at that point, getting up to C is not too much of an issue. If you want, I could try to make a quick video of how I did that, but I will attempt to describe the process as clearly as possible:
-Starting on top clarion B, I went chromatically to C#.
-While I was doing that, I dropped my jaw/loosened up, so I was loose by the time I was at C#/D.
-Continued chromatically up to F#, creating the gliss effect mainly with loose embouchure, and partly by sliding fingers off in the standard chromatic fingerings.
-At this point I fingered G with RH first finger and thumb / LH thumb first and second fingers, A with RH thumb second and third fingers, and B with LH thumb first and second fingers / RH first and second fingers. (I realize I am not going chromatically anymore, but with the high range and dropped jaw, it worked out. Also, this part of the gliss happens quite fast).
-If I was going to continue up to top C, I would finger it RH thumb and first finger with the A key also depressed / LH first finger.

I'm sure that is as clear as mud, but hopefully I didn't make any mistakes that will confuse the issue!

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Re: Gliss to high C

Author: MattR
Date: 2017-06-23 19:40

Thank you RBlack! That was very helpful

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