A glissando on a violin is notated with a straight line, sometimes including the term "gliss". It is NOT a slur. The term "slur" in musical notation has a special meaning: It is a bowed line between two or more notes. It can indicate a phrase. On violin it can also indicate notes to be played with the same bow stroke.
What is the proper technique to perform an upward and downward glissando on piano? In particular, how should you position your hand, and is it important which finger (s) you use?
What is the difference between an arpeggio and glissando? Is a glissando just another form of an arpeggio? I still don't exactly understand.
You can play a glissando up the piano with usually the index, middle, and ring finger positioned together. Try practicing slowly without even the piano, just in the air like you are shooing something away. Then, when you play on the piano, play the glissando lightly. The general rule is that if you play too loud it becomes more difficult to ...
For me the most striking effect in The Firebird was the natural-harmonic string glissando near the beginning, which the bass chord touches off like a Catherine-wheel.
For the violin I'd like to notate a glissando over multiple measures. But there's two things that are unclear to me: do I just put a semi-breve in the first and last measures and rests in the measu...
I have a piece that is in two flats and has a glissando that starts on G and ends on a B quarter note two octaves higher. Am I supposed to glissando on the white keys through A and then hit and ho...
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