You're a fantastic player, but the timbre on your violin is just amazing, I love it so much!

What a great tone you have on that violin..!! Wonderful. Rich and woody. I love it..!! And thanks a lot for the explanation.

you make me more confused.

You are an amazing violinist, Pierre. I love your rich, personalized sound. And I enjoy these brief, pedagogical vignettes where you beautifully demonstrate the concepts. Two thumbs up from me!

you make short, concise, and clear tutorials as how everyone needs! thanks for these contents!

You are the teacher I have been looking for for years. You have the Nack of making something difficult look much easier and within reach for us meer begginers. Thank You.

As a native Spanish speaker clearly attuned to Italian I find your first pronunciation of the word "glissando" so perfect, I had to comment!

Wow, I've never seen someone with such expertise so excited to teach others about articulations before. You earned my sub

Didn't know Mel Gibson played violin! :)

I have just discovered what a "Portamento" in a VST and because of your video I now concretely understand how this sound is produce! Also it's the coolest sound ever in my opinion !!!!! x)

Excellent little master class! Thank you!

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You just go to the point not too much talking, neat and precise . Thank you very much.

you play so beautifully. thanks for this info :-)

Awesome video - straight to the point and informative. Respect!

Friend. i want to ask you about a technique often used in irish folk which is a third harmony on two slided strings. what is the name of that expression? Thank you for sharing your knowledge on these videos

Thank you so much for making this video. It helped me a lot

I'm not much of a violinist, but, in music in general (not specifically violin music), glissando (or gliss) and portamento are confusing words that you might hear more than one possible set definitions for. The difference between the two that I've most commonly heard is that a portamento is when you slide smoothly from one pitch to another(passing momentarily through every theoretically possible pitch between them), while a glissando is when you play every note in-between (either chromatically (all notes on a piano) or in a diatonically (only notes in a scale, like all the white keys on a piano)) discretely. The latter is easier (or the only one possible) on many instruments, but I imagine it is more difficult on violin. It is also interesting to to note that I've mostly only seen/heard of the word portamento online. When trombone players get portamentos it is written "gliss.", and that's what we call it when we sing large ones (in choir, etc.). So, in my experience, when people refer to glissandos they mean what I called a portamento (a smooth slide between notes). However, it's also written "gliss." in piano and xylophone music, where it clearly refers to a discrete glissando. Saxophones, trumpets, clarinets, etc. also play a variety of pitch bends, such as "falls", and I think "scoops", "slides" and "glisses", but I'm not an expert on what their music says or what they actually call them (I might be misremembering.) Wind players also play "rips" or discrete glissandos. If you look at the Wikipedia page for portamento (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portamento), it focuses on the singing technique of sliding between notes in a melody, much how Fiddlerman uses the term. While you're on wikipedia, if you look up glissando (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando), you'll see it explores this terminology confusion. If you didn't see, in his reply to Kurt Johnson, Fiddlerman clarifies (I think) that what he meant in the video is that a glissando is any continuous pitch slide, and a portamento is any time you connect notes using a glissando, (no matter what speed(s) the glissando is at).

thank you man, I'm in an orchestration class (with no previous experience) and this really helps me with aurally identifying these different techniques. Im sure ill be back!

love the faces you make when you play om your violin. ^^

Beautiful tunes you've played! I'm gonna look for that Emperor's March... On the other hand, I didn't understand quite well. I believe glissando is the equivalent to a slide on a guitar for example. To slide up or down on a string, sounding those two notes and the inbetweeners on a row. But portamento I don't catch it, I just think it was too fast. I got this concept: Portamento is used between two notes -adjacent or not-, on a single string, changing pitch so (I don't know what to put here... So fast, so smooth, so unnoticeable?) that it almost sound like no change has happened. O.o So I'm confused! What do you mean by "but not connect the two notes"?

You are always good clear direct... Best teacher.

Can you tell me the names of the music and who it was by? I would love to play those or If you have the sheet music could you give it to me? Also what does a portamento look like in music? is it a scwiggly line connecting two notes or a straight line connecting two notes

You are very welcome AuZonez. :-) Thanks for your kind words.

I love your phrasing. So nice.

Great violinist! Would you mind posting a video of you playing Partita No.2 in Dminor (Allemande) that has a lot of places where you can use glissando but i see people use it way to intense and it takes away the true value of the song and i think it would be cool to see how you interpret it.

Do you have a video of how to put weight into the bow, I have heard it dramatically effects the tone quality and have tried to find a simple instruction video on the subject, thanks for all the free vids and taking the time to do them .

Absolutely beautiful! What a gift!

Great ! Simply great !

So it's like doing a slide on the guitar only while bowing?

Thanks a lot! This was really helpful for me cos I´m doing a work about Music and Architecture, aplying music concepts to design of buldings. Greetings from Spain!

Outstanding explanation as always.!

wich is the concerto that you mention there ? i would like to know thanks

awesome explanation, just wat I was looking for. eager to implement these techniques in my production.

I use D'Addario's Artcraft rosin now. Previously I was using Andrea Solo Rosin. I have completely switched over to Zyex and can't imagine ever changing again. Used to use Obligato, Eva Pirazzi, and Dominant. For my violin the Zyex strings are far superior plus they break in very quickly.

muito boa sua explicação.!!!

I'm dying to know what's the name of the example you used in 00:50 : the beginning of ..? Thank you so much and love your videos and website :) !

Not really sure anymore. LOL Portamento actually means to carry the note. So carry the note from one note to another. Glissando means to slide. This would technically be the same thing as Portamento but maybe Glissando is more slide and Portamento can be anything that transfers the note from one to another. Confusing right????

@j2musicstar - Thank you :-)

Tu eres grandioso.. Gracias por compartir este video de glissando very good.!

I'm transcribing "The Devel Went Down to Georgia" from Violin to Viola, and I was wondering what's the name for that part at the begining that sounds like a mix of glissando and tremelo? It's right after the scale-ish part at the begining.

I don't even play violin anymore, sometimes I just watch your videos because I like the way they sound. =)

It looks like around 1:46, you are using arm vibrato and then wrist vibrato around 1:54, that is if I am recognizing them correctly. I’m still learning vibrato and curious to know if you alternate for specific effects or just personal preference.

What are the songs that you are playing to demonstrate these techniques?

i love that rich sliding sound.

Thank you so much, very helpful

Thank you so much Fiddlerman. I'm working on the Czardas now... but man oh man does my Ming wolf on the Bb (and the A isn't all that good either). Do you have any videos on technique to eliminate wolf notes? Thanks again.

Thanks Steve. That is a great compliment. :-)

Great clarification! Thanks :)

@MultiBlastProduction - Csárdás (or Czardas) by Vittorio Monti.

Forgot to answer your question on the wood type. It's made of Spruce on the top and Maple on the bottom. :-)

Hey Fiddler Man, can I get the name of that elevated shoulder rest you used in the video please! I 'd love to get one just like it

Ya. How did you guess :-) I started using Final Cut but my processor is way too slow.

Your a great teacher, wish you lived near me in England, teachers here are too high brow, I like your down to earth approach.

how do you avoid violin bounce during vibrato? i can see your violin is shaking but the bow is unaffected

@krishnaisindahouse - It looks like that from the front angle and also because I am up on the G string past the body of the instrument. You see the hand has to come around the violin body for the fingers to reach. If I had filmed it from the side instead of straight on you would have seen that most of the movement is back and forth. Also if you notice I am not holding the violin very much with my chin. If I clamp down a bit more the violin would be steady.

Portamento @ 4/4 C-D legato (major second), half notes: C is crotchet (quarter note) plus seven demisemiquaver and just before full half one demisemiquaver is raised to D. D is full half note. Glissndo A violin continuous glide on any interval. On winds needs a cord and than is played as light touch of natural harmonics within that interval.

Which one is more exaggerated, portamento or glissando?

Maple bottom and Spruce top are standard and what has proven to have the best overall results. Many makers have tried other combinations and some with fairly good results. You can even find great carbon fiber violins. 4/4 = full size, is by far the best sounding and one usually doesn't play a smaller instrument unless you are very small and can't handle a full size fiddle.

man i love this

What if it's just an extremely fast scale is it still a glissando? or just a fast scale. Hear me out, the reason I say this is because on the piano you can play an extremely fast scale with your fingers but it won't be considered a glissando, but when you use the back of your fingers to play a fast scale then it is considered a glissando. To be fair, yes piano and violin are completely different instruments. But it'll be interesting to distinguish exactly what is considered a glissando on violin because of the nature of the instrument it seems confusing to me.

Thank you for sharing such information.

What piece was mentioned at 0:52? I've heard it before but didn't know the name, or composer. Thanks!

what song is this, it sounds gorgeous

awesome but why do you jerk your left hand sideways while using vibrato sometimes?

I'll put it on my "to do" list. :-) Thanks

Great to hear :-)

Спасибо, супер)))

Super confusing.

Haha thanks. You can certainly play well. I was in a hurry and wanted the laymans answer! I feel like glissando is featuring the 'slide' and portamento is about connecting the notes so they're not staccato.

how would you go about doing this across different strings or should i just shift?

Hey , master , I have this music sheet with a remark written as : en glissant , it means glissando , right ? Actually , it is the famous music sheet of Zigeunerweisen , the part with "en glissant" sounds like your finger is positioned at each note for a very short time instead of gliding all the way to another lower note. I'm confused with this remark ,should I put my finger at each note and move it quickly or just glide ?

this helped me! thanks

What song was it that he was playing to demonstrate us in the beginning and could you tell me where to find it because I search up emperors march and star wars comes up

Thank you it helps!

What if I have to glissando from open D string to 5 lines above the staff in one beat (83bpm)? It seems impossible, at least to do it like the original artist (Lindsey Stirling - Beyond the Veil).

I googled Emperor's March and couldn't find any such song. Can you tell me who wrote the song/where it comes from?

So, what's the difference between a glissando and a slide then? I see both in notation programs like Finale.

You are welcome :-)

Very helpful..thank u

we got glizzies in music too... rad!

SO GOOOOD

So glissando is basically a "cutted"/not completed portamento, right?

Awesome thanks!

I love your tone, man! (I'm sorry, I'm primarily a hard rock guitarist, and I don't know the correct terms. Not that I can't know because I'm that kind of guitarist, but we just seem to have our own lingo. Hahaha)

What would glissando in 5ths sound like?

I'm not sure if you'll anser, but can you tell me the names of the songs you played and their composers? Thanks

Very nice sir

You are awesome man! :)

What is the difference between glissando and portamento?

clear as mud

Glad that somebody does. LOL Thanks

you are awesome

Thank you very much !!!

I'm not fm, but for me, i use dark rosin in every climate I'm in, it;s much more richer, more softer, it grips my strings well, and it does not often leave rosin dusts on my fingerboard...if you want a smooth sound, you probably need more rosin....or probably less rosin, for me, i don't use much rosin, a little rosin does the smooth bowin' for me :)

But... what is different betweeon runs and Glissando,Portamento???

It shouldn't matter whether it's up or down, surely! Regardless of your years spent in Swedish orchestras, your definition is very confusing. I would refer you to the opening clarinet figure in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The clarinet does a run up playing individual notes fast, aka a glissando, then changes to go seemlessly up the scale without fingering or indicating the notes, to arrive at a final note. That, then, to me is portamento. You don't seem to differentiate clearly between the two. A harp or piano is I believe technically unable to do portamento; trombonists spend all their time trying to avoid it. Is that ok? I wonder what Gershwin's notation is.

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What is the name of the song at 0:51?

Glissando sounds like the notes glide from a low point to the highest point. Portamento sounds like it goes from a low point to a higher point then low then up to the highest point. I think that is what he means. Say a scale of 1 to 10 - Glissando may mean going from point 1 to 10 Portamento may mean going from point 1 to 5 back to 1 and then to 10. Hope I make sense :) Hope I am right :)