Glissandra

"Glissandra" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins off of their 2012 studio album, Oceania. The title appears to be a play on words, given the main riff involves notes "gliding" into each another, known as glissando in music theory.

Honestly, this is another song that happened when we were sitting around in the studio, waiting for something to get fixed. I started playing the riff, and we were all thinking, Oh, that's good. I went home and wrote the melody and some of the lyrical content. The next day, I played it for Nicole on acoustic guitar, and she almost started crying. She said, 'God, that's so beautiful.' And I was like, 'OK -- that works for me!' [laughs] Heartache never gets old.