Need "swipe" graphic

• Jun 8, 2013 - 21:15

Hi,
I'm working on a jazz score, and I need a graphic to depict a "swipe" - usually performed by trumpets with partial valves, and woodwinds by partial hole coverings. It's kind of like an arpeggio but done in a continuous change of pitch. Example is the starting clarinet swipe in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Most often notated as a curved ascending arc connecting the lowest and highest pitches of the swipe.

Thanks for your help!


Comments

Best way to do that now is use a slur and reshape it to suit. Or, if you don't need it to curve (and thee's really particular reason it would have to) you could use a line.

2.0 will have special shapes just for this purpose.

Thanks for the info. Can't wait for v2.0.

Another question - is it possible to extract the graphic files from a specific pallet so as to edit one. Specifically, I am looking to remove the "gliss" text from the diagonal glissando symbol. Also to use in a jazz chart.

Thanks again.

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