Glissando

[jackz9999]

How exactly do you glissando? I've heard that its a combination of bending the pitch and half-valving the chronmatic scale. Is this correct? What are some good ways to practice this skill?
Also, is a fall in the jazz just a short glissando added to the end of a note? Thanks

[ This Message was edited by: jackz9999 on 2003-02-13 19:04 ]

[Emb_Enh]

1.Glissando --- I've heard that its a combination of bending the pitch and half-valving the chromatic scale. Is this correct?

2.What are some good ways to practice this skill?

3.Also, is a fall in the jazz just a short glissando added to the end of a note?
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here are the legit terms....

Glissando (from French glisser, meaning 'to slide') rapidly sliding up or down the scale, in which every tone or semitone can be clearly heard. Often confused with portamento.

Portamento (Italian, meaning 'carrying') Used to describe music - instrumental or voacal - that glides from one note to the next without interruption. Often confused with glissando.

3. The Drop / Fall off / Downward Gliss, is what's best described as a downward chromatic scale played with the valves in one third depression. Start on the given note, the distance is generally a minor seventh.

2. Do it a lot.


1. Upward Gliss, is the same as the downward gliss in reverse. However it is not very often used in arrangements although there is some use of the "rip", an ornament that is done upward through the harmonic series hopefully landing on "the target note." The upward Gliss was used a lot by Louis Armstrong.

NB.The Rip up or "Flare" touches on all the harmonics on the way up. Push the valves down, push, blow and let her rip, disembarking on the proper stop.

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