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Author: Valster
Date: 2004-07-13 22:24
I need to know how to flutter tongue, growel, and do glissandos for a piece that I am learning, for clarinet. All I know about this is that to flutter tongue, you have to roll your R's or something, even though I can't do this! Can anyone help me out and tell me how to flutter tongue, growel, and what a glissando is? It would be greatly appreciated!
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Author: Joel
Date: 2004-07-14 00:40
For glissandos higher in the register (above around G above the staff, and the higher you go the easier it is), you can bend the note down just by opening your throat and dropping your jaw, like you're saying Eaaauuuhhh or Ewwwww. IF I play, for example, a high D, I can bend it down to G (a 5th) like that. As for lower, it takes a combination of loose but controlled ebmochure and a slow opening of each consecutive hole. I don't know how to gliss over the break, since I can't open the keyed holes gradually like I can the finger holes.
I can't flutter tongue so I can't help you there.
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Author: Valster
Date: 2004-07-14 17:28
Thank you! That helped alot. I think I'm getting the hang of groweling, you kinda just have to hum into the clarinet and get used to that feeling. I discovered that I can't roll my R's, so I guess there goes all hope of flutter tongueing for me!
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Author: Theboy_2
Date: 2004-07-15 00:05
to growl on an instrument is to hum. this is mostly a jazz thing, and isn't used much anyways. to do a gorwl that will be the most raspy would be to hum a minor second below the note desired. hope this helps.
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Author: Joel
Date: 2004-07-15 04:02
Here's a sound clip I recorded a few months ago of a cool sound effect I kind of accidentally discovered once. The gliss before the weird sound effect is what I described before, where I start with a D and gliss down to a G with my embochure. If you already have your embochure in that position, you can start on the G and go up, fingering a D. Of course I purposefully made that sound, so obviously it doesn't have to be there in a gliss.
http://www.users.muohio.edu/cliftojd/misc/clarinetsoundeffect.wav
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Author: Valster
Date: 2004-07-15 16:01
Wow, that's really cool! Thanks!
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