I was wondering how you would write that you want a woodwind instrument to play a quick scale from one note to another - so it sounds sort of like a piano glissando. Obviously you don't write glissando because that means play all the in betweeny notes too. I could write out all the notes in full, but that seems a bit unneccesary.

Thanks,

Sarah

You know the wiggly line you get up the side of broken (spread) chords? Join the notes up with that rather than a normal gliss line - it tells the performer to play a fast scale, rather than a true gliss. Though depending on the instrument and players, you could write a normal gliss and they may well be able to play it.

Thanks I tried that in sibelius as I thought it looked the right sort of thing for the job, but it played it as a normal glissando...now I know it's just being stupid as usual lol