A glistando is when an instrument moves from one note to another note totally smoothly. This is known as a

gliss for short and it's a very useful technique in every kind of music from jazz to

rock to classical. One thing I like about it is that it's a musical automatopoe. It sounds like what it is.

Just like how staccato sounds staccato. Glaondo sounds like a gla-sano. Sono! And the Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcasts, a Podcasts about Music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and as always I'm so glad that you

join me to talk about music with Glaandos, music with Portamentos, and

sometimes music with both Glaandos and Portamentos because they're not really

all that different.

We've got a song with one of the most famous Glasandos of all time to talk about in this episode.

I am very excited to get into it, so find a comfortable place to set, turn up the volume, and enjoy

this show.

A couple of episodes ago, I talked about Portamento with regard to synthesizers and

how Portamento, or Glide, is sort of similar to what you might describe as a

a glissando and the difference between a glissando and a

portamento is there is a difference but it's kind of a little bit up for

debate a glissando I believe has individual notes where

Portamento is just a smooth slide. However, if you're playing an instrument like

trombone or even a saxophone, a glissando is probably also just kind of a slide and there stops being that big of a difference.

To me a glissando is something that takes place over a longer period of time and a portamento

is a

little bit shorter, but I actually kind of use them interchangeably.

One fun glissando is right at the very beginning of the bridge to the Strong Song's theme song,

I've played glissando on the tenor sax

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