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Re: What is this notation?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2023-09-05 21:55

With glisses, bends or slides that go up or down (falls/drops) and don't have a final note, then play the gliss/bend as high as you like or down to the lowest note, tapering the volume off before you hit the final note instead of all the notes in the gliss/bend being the same volume and ending abruptly.

Especially when doing a drop off or fall down to a low note as keeping all the notes the same volume and ending on a loud low note sounds horrendous. Diminuendo down to almost nothing throughout the gliss/slide/fall to make it effective and tasteful - hit the written note and then come away from it.

Sometimes they're written with a wavy line, sometimes with a straight line and sometimes with a curved line curving up or down, with or without the words gliss or bend. Sometimes instead of ending with a rest, the last note is notated as a note with an X instead of a notehead if it's of a non-determined pitch.

Again this is mostly seen in big band charts and entire sections playing both in unison or in soli will do these upward or downward bends to great effect.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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