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Author: Cindyr
Date: 2007-10-14 22:10
I got encouragement from some wise people here to learn to sight transpose in order to play with an adult music group that was started in our town a few months ago. Never thought I could do it, but I've practiced, and indeed it gets easier to transpose on sight.
The purpose of our group is to offer adults with about 1 to 2 years of music experience a place to play music in a fun, non-competivite environment, that we select , and to learn to play together. In some cases this is picking up an instrument again after a long absence of playing.
I am wondering what to do about someone who may be interested in our group who has recently picked up the clarinet again. I don't want him to have to sight transpose just yet. Is there a freebie program out there that I could use for this?
The other two players we have are keyboard and violin.
Thanks for any input.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-10-14 22:25
Cindyr -
I think the best way to learn the Bb/C transposition is just to start doing it. Have your friend get a book of familiar songs -- say, Stephen Foster -- and read them up a step, preferably with a pianist.
Another way is to get the same music and read along with a recording, or get some duets for two instruments and read them along with the violinist.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2007-10-14 23:29
I don't know about the freebie version of it, but the Make Music family of computer programs work pretty well. There's Finale (which is the big monster all the bells and whistles) and Print Music (probably good enough) and then there's a Finale Notepad which you can d/l from their website. That may be good enough too, but I don't know all of its functions.
http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/
I know Finale's competitor Sibelius also has similar offerings.
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Author: davyd
Date: 2007-10-15 02:13
Asking someone with only 1-2 years of experience to sight-transpose strikes me as severely unreasonable. Thinking up a step can be hard even for experienced players. A better long-term solution is to buy material that's already transposed, or to provide transposed parts.
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2007-10-15 07:56
Transposing always seems to be the forgotten part of clarinet teaching. If you agree on what you are going to play next time and have untransposed music for them, teach them to write out their own transposed parts. This will also give them an understanding of how transposing works. Getting a computer program to do it for you is lazy and a waste of time for beginners, who need to learn how it works. With the computer, you learn what buttons to press but not why you press them. Technology is a tool to help do a job. To to the job properly, you must understand what the tool is doing. That goes not just for transposing, but for accountancy, engineering, architecture, photography etc. etc. etc.... (Sorry - stop ranting)
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