Klarinet Archive - Posting 000276.txt from 2005/09

From: "David Renaud" <manonrivet@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: fake books
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:25:24 -0400

I encourage you to practice your transposition.
It is hard at the beginning, but becomes easy rapidly.

Piano players must learn treble & bass clef.
A bass clarinet player requires bass clef facility.
A viola player needs treble clef and alto clef.
Bassoon requires more then one clef.

To play commercial music a Bb player needs treble clef and alto clef.

When transposing, I do not think of transposing, instead
reading alto clef. The middle line IS a C not
a B that needs to be changed to C. It is another clef.

In fact after using alto clef to transpose difficult
material flawlessly I will sometimes make an error if I suddenly
must go back to a real Bb part and read treble clef. It can be
difficult to switch off the alto clef mode if it has been exercised
the last dozen tunes or so.

You really should learn to read from the C parts.

My Opinion
Dave Renaud

----- Original Message -----
From: <Georg.Kuehner@-----.de>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] RE: fake books

> You need a Bb Version and C Version
>
> Regards Georg
>
>
> Am 26.09.2005 13:34 Uhr schrieb "tim parks" unter
> <tim.parks@-----.com>:
>
> > I just bought "The Ultimate Fake Book" by Hal Leonard. Its sales pitch
said
> > it was for keyboard, guitar AND clarinet. I am not a guitar player but I
> > always assumed that a guitar was "c" instrument. I expected that the
chords
> > would be written in a different key so as to be the same concert key
that I
> > am playing in. The written chords for the guitar look to be the same
written
> > key that the melody is written in. I am wrong or should have the sales
pitch
> > said guitar OR clarinet. I guess that if any "C" instrument wants to
play
> > with me then they need the "C" book.
> >
> >
> >
> > MY goal was to be able to sit down with friends that play either piano
or
> > guitar and mess around with some tunes. But it looks like I will have to
buy
> > two books to accomplish this, is this so?????????
> >
> >
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