User talk:HLRxxKarl

About the "glissando" of S3 Splatfest Match Opening

Hi, regarding your editSpecial:Diff/419756: When I listen to the track at 0.5x speed, the first four notes I hear are C5, A4, G4 and D4 (actual notes are an octave higher because of the speed). These notes are then repeated in lower octaves. To me this is in fact a broken chord played from high to low, i.e. an arpeggio. I don't see how this can be considered a glissando, or am I missing something? Harimaron (talk) 18:17, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

The friend I asked was Moola Mixtape. He said it sounded like a major pentatonic scale. And technically it almost is. But knowing now that it's only 4 notes does make me reconsider which it is. It's still hard for me to believe it should be called an arpeggio when the chord it arpeggiates isn't functional within the context of what follows. But revisiting the definition of glissando, I do find it hard to apply here as well. My best guess would be that technically it's written like an arpeggio, but it's aiming to mimic the sound of a piano glissando. Either description technically works, but I do see arpeggio used more commonly for this kind of sound. So you can change it back if you'd like. HLRxxKarl (talk) 22:43, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Okay, I can see why it may seem like a glissando. Still, IMO the more technically correct description is arpeggio so I will probably change it back. Thanks for the response. Harimaron (talk) 10:38, 29 April 2023 (UTC)