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Author: sömeone
Date: 2003-03-01 12:36
how do i do glissando for the opening solo of rhapsody in blue?
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Author: TorusTubarius
Date: 2003-03-01 21:24
I'm no clarinet player, but don't you do it by bending the notes with your embouchure and gradually and successively sliding your fingers off the tone holes? Clarinet players?
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Author: Theboy_2
Date: 2003-03-01 22:42
I don't know about bending the notes but you do slide from note to note.
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Author: sömeone
Date: 2003-03-02 05:53
well, i do know that you have to bend the pitch and the notes but how do i actually do that
better explanations pls.....i've been searching through the web for some time now but there seems to be no result
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Author: Hikaru
Date: 2003-03-02 10:02
Watched the Fantasia 2000 dvd and I know what you meant now. I don't know how to explain but you lower your jaw(and sometimes opening your throat more) and move it up again or something like that to bend a pitch right? 0_o
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Author: Benny B
Date: 2003-03-03 01:32
torus is right u slowly move fingers off holes while scooping the notes. A LOT OF PRACTICE
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Author: Gnomon
Date: 2003-03-03 06:42
THis is the fingering site. If you go to the Clarinet site, this topic is discussed there. About every three months, someone asks how to do the Gershwin glissando, so they have a good collection of answers there:
<a href="http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard">www.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard</a>
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Author: Anthony Thompson
Date: 2003-03-27 07:12
And now for the truth. Sliding your fingers is an almost acceptable way of faking a gliss. But, it is not the actual way to do it. If you've seen it done, the pros finger chromatically for effect. I'm playing a jazz tune written by Bernstein called Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs, written for Benny Goodman. Killer piece. Anyway...huge gliss in it. The Paul Harvey Etudes on Gershwin Themes has one in the Third movement as well. I'm working on both of these and trying to get the gliss down. My teacher has done it for me many times and it is truly amazing and i can tell u for sure that it is more than a mere finger slide
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Author: Keith Moses
Date: 2003-03-30 03:46
Hi everyone,
Great info! I've got a particularly challenging new piece to play on Palm Sunday involving glissando'ing. I find it much easier to gliss down using throat opening/lipping down (if no more than a 3rd interval--maybe a 4th) whereas going up (at one point rather quickly an entire octave) has been more of a gradual scale. I'll experiment with the chromatic technique, however.
Thank you for the tips,
Keith Moses
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Author: Clare
Date: 2003-04-04 01:22
do a regular run (fastish) to about the high g, then slowly slide your finers off while bending the notes. practise!!!!
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Author: Jake
Date: 2003-05-09 02:35
the finger slide is not necessary, it only seems like it should be done to get those close intervals
you must open your throat in a way that almost feels like your tongue is being pushed upside down and backwards, REALLY far back
practice this technique by fingering A just above the staff, but playing G instead (also, the lower you are, such as the D where the smear begins, the more open your throat must be to truly smear the notes together)
once perfected, you can actually lift up several fingers at a time and still smear, embouchure is infinitely more important than hand position in this technique
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Author: Nick
Date: 2003-08-04 17:52
yes that's true, but the way it's suppposed to be played is that you open up the back of your throat and drop your lower jaw from the reed and then tighten your embouchure and bring up your jaw again to bring u-p the note as well.
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Author: sweetiepie
Date: 2004-02-16 23:13
DO NOT TRY TO BEND THE PITCH WITH YOUR THROAT!!!!! It will sound terrible and you're more likely to squawk then anything else.
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Author: Gecko_girl
Date: 2004-05-04 04:26
Um actually its a sqeak...
but anyway, im not a proffesional player, but thanx for the tips. I have been playing for 3 years, and I am working on rhasody in blue (might play it for a concert) an dI wasnt exactly sure how to play the gliss. well thanx for the info. Really needed it!
oh i was wondering if anyone here knew how i could get my hands on a copy of rhapsody in blue for 1st b flat clarinet. I had to get the piano part, and it doesnt sound exactly like it should. Well if anyone does, plz post website!!!
thank u everyone!
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Author: matt's grl
Date: 2004-06-03 16:14
east is playin it!11 Clarinets rock!!!
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