TromboneChat

First off - sorry if this is the wrong category to post this in, i'm new here.
Ive been playing piano pieces as trombone solos while practicing (just for general practice or whenever i want to play a song where no one has composed a trombone solo), and many of them have false glissandos. Especially for piano (since every note is articulated) this creates a very unique sound. Is there any way i could achieve something similar on trombone?

you can multiple tongue while glissando-ing and see if that gets close - you don't even have to hit every note or anything, just kinda fall and articulate as fast as possible. flutter tongue could also be a substitute option.

Flail your f attachment valve while doing a rip to the note where the gliss ends. Doesn't work on piccolo trombone or for digital beings.

Could be a challenge to gliss all the white notes or the black notes as needed.

Sounds like a glissando self image problem if your glissandos aren't true enough for your taste. Personally I've never wondered if my glissandos were true or false. Maybe Lassus Trombone is an exception, it seems to be false now. Maybe you should try it on your piccolo trombone and see. Just not in public .

If you want something close to a piano glissando?
1. You could play chromatics very fast with a legato articulation. There are many trix for fast articulation. You could double tounge or tripple tounge or you have to invent something yourself
2. You could do a "rip" (move slide outwards as you force notes higher), up to a note or the opposite down to a note.

Variants of glisses
3. Use "flatterzunge" during a gliss.
4. Use "growl" as an effect during a gliss.

/Tom

There is a trick way of playing the Bb major scale, starting on and going up. The slide positions are 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7. Played fast it would give you the effect of running the back of your finger (finger nail) up the 8 notes of the scale. Experimenting with this technique might provide other alternatives. You don't need to tongue any of the notes as they are all across the breaks. It also works the opposite way but high Bb on 7th is noy an easy note to start on!

Cheers

Stewbones43