Glissando - How To Play and Use on Piano

Glissando - How To Play and Use on Piano
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Take some piano lessons from Scott Houston “The Piano Guy.” In this video, Scott shows you how to play a glissando on a piano or keyboard.
Scott starts by defining a glissando. A glissando occurs when you play a continuous slide upward or downward between at least two notes. Most of the time you will play all of the notes on your instrument by running up or down. Playing a glissando can be painful, so Scott offers four tips to accomplish it with as little pain as possible:
Using a vertical hand position that is perpendicular to the keys so that you are using your fingernails, using your thumb instead of using all your fingers, using 2 fingers with your index finger being slightly down further than your middle finger and drag upwards, and using 2 fingers with an interval of space between them as you run down the keys.
Lastly, Scott tells you when and why to play a glissando. A glissando can be used as a great intro to a tune, to break the current mood of the tune, or to end a tune.
Obviously, Scott plays and demonstrates all these examples of playing a glissando, so that you can add to your bag of tricks.
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Glissando - How To Play and Use on Piano

[@PianotvNet]

Thanks for this video! I never thought to do a glissando with multiple notes (like a 4th), definitely going to have to play around with that.

[@clearevil]

Amazing thanks Glissandos, ever so often, make me sound like the Pro I am not.

[@pianoinaflash]

+clearevil Ha! Well said...

[@joyfulsoundsabound4407]

Thanks, Scott. For there's a choir piece I'm looking at that's calling for the piano accompanist to play a tremolo followed by a glissando. Your demonstration of the progression helps!

[@linkDoesYouTube]

How do you glissando on a wooden key piano? Hurts every technique!

[@J4mMazTaR4Y]

didn't know steve jobs was playing the piano. I'm even more impressed!

[@jazzutako]

Wow, eye opening!

[@08123896398]

Thanks for lessons

[@jasper007s5]

Thank you. Great Stuff.

[@silassrinivas6712]

very useful tips

[@tek9498]

Amazing thank you

[@juandavila4534]

Thanks man!

[@dejantodorovic6542]

Perfect

[@mooseydeucy]

LOL always wondered if this technique had a name is so cool going back to people like Little Richard or any dance music that I hear today! Major props

[@alvaropiccini4803]

Thanks for this video!

[@pianoinaflash]

You're welcome!

[@sheytherese]

Hi can you upload an easy way to play a glissando on the Black keys please? Thank you

[@rini6]

I've played for decades .. mostly classical. But I am branching out and glissando is never easy. When my cuticles hit the keys it hurts a bit. I think this has been helpful, though. I think I press too hard.

[@pianoinaflash]

Agreed! The traditional "fingernail" approach is a killer... That's why the "palm" approach is more my cup of tea. :-)

[@deeptikumarroy1710]

Sir, I'm not afraid of my finger injuries, but I'm rather afraid of damaging keys of my piano. Which is the best technique to not get my keys off?

[@pianoinaflash]

I've never hurt a piano playing the way I was doing it in the vid for 30 years now... I think you're safe. :-)

[@NathanaelXavier]

I recently game across a devastating glissando in Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata 3rd movement (towards the end) where you need to play glissando octaves with the right hand going down, then the left hand going up. How do I do this without killing myself with pain?

[@hildelehmann9114]

The hard part of doing a glissando for me is to play it together with the melody of the other hand usually the left hand, I haven’t found a video of how to do that, any idea?

[@Milo-hx4qv]

Him:"the glisando can be very painful" Me:"The skin on my finger peeled of and not there is a scar....and ur telling me its painful?"

[@premasru]

Well Hello Scott Houston, sorry if I spelled your name wrong. Just saying, thanks. I'll go work on my "glissando". Oh yes, as someone else mentioned, you introduced something new to me too, doing a glissando with two or more intervals.

[@pianoinaflash]

+Charmian O'Brien You're welcome - and you got my name spelled right too... bonus!

[@abcd-oh2te]

I was doing glissandos easy on a piano without weighted keys, then I got a weighted keyboard and tried the same technique and it hurt

[@qijingtee5820]

how steve jobs plays glissando

[@olliedylan1381]

Vsauce?

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