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posted June 29, 2003 12:06 AM
  
Does anyone know where I can download a song that has a 'glissando' in it as played by a guitar?How does one play 'glissando' on a guitar? IP: Logged |
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posted June 29, 2003 04:29 AM
Here's a definition:glissando
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A rapid slide through a series of consecutive tones in a scalelike passage. If it helps you figure out how to play it or what songs have it, awesome. If not, then I can't help any further. IP: Logged |
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posted June 29, 2003 05:23 AM
Thanks for the definition, Bugman!Yeah, it SOUNDS like a slide, but is it really? If it is...well, how do you 'glissando' upon
something like a clarinet? I'm sure a lot of [you guys] have heard the song "Rhapsody in Blue"...in the beginning there's a very dramatic 'glissando', but clarinets can't slide! er...I think. I'm not really sure if it's a slide or just notes played at practically seamless intervals of time - 32nd notes at a fast tempo or whatnot... Either way, it's a VERY interesting sounding technique...but how on earth to execute that sound?!! ):
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posted June 29, 2003 09:44 AM
Yeah, dictionary.com had a second definition of glissando that didn't say anything about slides...just that it's a "rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale." So I guess it's played so fast that it sounds like a slide???IP: Logged |
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posted June 29, 2003 07:02 PM
i'm not sure if there is a difference, but the beginning of rhapsody in blue has a slur, not a glissando.IP: Logged |
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posted June 29, 2003 10:46 PM
Glissando is DEFINATELY used at the beginning of Rhapsody in Blue.A glissando is a type of slur in which you play EVERY note (chromatic) in between notes, whereas slur you just tie together notes. Man, I wanna do that on guitar!!! It's too cool! IP: Logged |
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posted July 19, 2003 09:13 AM
could you not use a tremlo unit and just push it all the way up, that would have the same effectIP: Logged |
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posted July 19, 2003 10:40 PM
*turns up snout*classical musicians need NO effect pedals. lol j/k. - i think you could do that...I'm actually not a classical musician in the least but I really love the sound of Glissando. See, it's one thing to do the technique, it's another to emulate it digitally. I COULD just punch in a midi guitar solo into some transcriber program, then run it through a nice sample of a guitar, then have it solo for me during performance, but I choose not to. (; thanks though.
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posted August 06, 2003 01:19 PM
no, by tremlo unit I meant like a floyd rose, with a wammy arm, depress the arm and thenslowly release it, or use your machine heads to de tune and then push back up into tune  IP: Logged |
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posted August 11, 2003 03:03 PM
If you pick a note and then slide up or down the fretboard pressing down quite firmmly you can get a glissando effect. Properly executed you would need to fret each note and you would need to be fast.IP: Logged |
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posted August 20, 2003 06:31 PM
Glissandos seem the topic of the week -- I just answered this same question on another board!A glissando is a rapid scale as noted. But it's NOT a slide. Both terms originate from violin music -- a slide on a violin is called a "portamento". In a glissando, there is an ever so slight pause at each note, which a guitar handily replicates with the frets. To execute a glissando, you slide with the left hand while tremolo picking with the right. A tremolo unit will NOT give you a glissando effect, as it's actually changing the tone up and down. Tom IP: Logged |
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