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RE: Glissando

Author: V12-5
Date: 2002-12-27 06:48

One technique for getting big "smears" as they're aften refered to is to slowly pull the fingers off the open holes sidways one at a time slowly. Enventually the goal is to pull them off in a smooth motion upward, and then to keep the pitch down with embouchure wile doing so, allowing you to lip the pitch up the rest of the way making for a smooth bend. I've been working at for a year and I still can't get it, it's easier in the lower register though. My teacher can play the opening of Rhapsody in Blue flawlessly (a regular gliss from the low F-G trill to the middle D, then a smooth bend up to the high C with the lip). It takes years of frustration and sqeaking to get it right.

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