How to play a glissando

[Happy girl]

This YouTube video on how to do the glissando on the accordion is very useful, but it is the only one I could find, does anyone have any additional hints & tips how to achieve this technique please?

Also, which note should I start on when practicing the glissando in the image, would that be a C an octave higher?

Thank you.

 

[goldtopia]

As on the the youTube example it is done with your finger. I do it with my thumb fingernail or first finger nail depending which direction, though this is only in C. If in another key you would need to have very nimble fingers. I dont do it very often and only in slower tunes. I think its more of a showman thing not really anything to do with playing skill.

 

[simonking]

That's an A not a C, an octave higher (i.e. the top note on a standard full-size 41-key accordion).

Where you start is a matter of taste, an octave or so is normal, or from where the previous note was if it's within a phrase. Use the full range of the keyboard if you want to make a thing of it...

Piano keyboard gliss's are always sliding over the white notes only, it's not like playing a fast scale.... much easier than that!

 

[Zevy]

<FONT font=Garamond><SIZE size=125><COLOR color=#0040FF>My teacher, Charles Nunzio, would giss with the bottom of his palm. Its very effective, especially when you have to land on a bunch of black keys. Im currently studying a piece of his that looks like this:

<FONT font=Garamond><SIZE size=125><COLOR color=#0040FF>I am, BTW, referring to a PA glissando.

 

[Happy girl]

Thank you very much

From this information could I surmise that there is no right or wrong way to do a glissando?

‘Just get on with it’ I can almost hear George G say!

I looked up Charles Nunzioon on YouTube & was mesmerised by his performance; it is clearly visible that the glissando right at the beginning of this presentation is done with the palm of his hand. He also performs an impressive bellow shake in the middle of it.


I am going to give that excerpt of a pierce you submitted a go Zevy, but it looks a bit scary to me!!!

 

[Zevy]

<FONT font=Garamond><SIZE size=125>Dont be scared. You can do it. The example I posted is not difficult. You have to land on a C half-diminished chord. C,Eb,Gb,Bb. Go for it!
I remember Mr. Nunzio telling me, You have a good gliss!. And that was before I learned about the palm. Its fun.

 

[Happy girl]

Yes Zevy, using the palm of the hand is defiantly the way to go. I am quite comfortable with this method.

I started your excerpt the ‘baby’ way; first by analysing all the notes & becoming at ease with their layout, after that it didn’t seem so daunting. (It is too difficult for me to tackle at the moment in any other way)

Thank you for this mini lesson, it is much appreciated.

If I may say so, you are very fortunate indeed to have had such a wonderful & inspirational teacher.

 

[Russ]

so how do you do it on a c system cba?

 

[JIM D.]

Ludovic Beier gets a nice gliss on a button box in this one around 3:20 --

 

[Soulsaver]

Ludovic Beier gets a nice gliss on a button box in this one around 3:20 --

Excellent... :tup:

 

[Zevy]

I started your excerpt the ‘baby’ way; first by analysing all the notes & becoming at ease with their layout, after that it didn’t seem so daunting. (It is too difficult for me to tackle at the moment in any other way).

<FONT font=Garamond><SIZE size=125><COLOR color=#0040FF>If thats the baby way, then count me in. Thanks for making me feel young. {}

If I may say so, you are very fortunate indeed to have had such a wonderful & inspirational teacher.

<FONT font=Garamond><SIZE size=125><COLOR color=#0040FF>Yes, I was fortunate. I feel as though I got the last drop of the last of the greats of the old school teachers.