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Author: deejay
Date: 2001-03-31 17:26
Does anyone have a hard time remembering both treble and bass? I starting out playing bassoon and I get mixed up.
How long will it take someone to know them both with out mixing them up? How long did it take you?
deejay
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Author: Kim L
Date: 2001-03-31 17:44
The easy way to remember the clefs is by their lines and spaces. The lines on the treble clef are: E, G, B, D, and F. The spaces are F, A, C, and E. To remember these, assign sentences to them. Remember the lines by Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. Remember the spaces by the notes spelling FACE.
In bass clef always remember that the F is between the two dots. The lines on the bass clef are G, B, D, F, and A. The spaces are A, C, E, and G. Remember the lines by Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always. Remember the spaces by All Cows Eat Grass.
I've had to learn the trombone for my methods class and clarinet simulataneously and sometimes, I read the clarinet music in bass and the trombone music in treble. Just remember the sentences and practice and soon you will get the clefs.
Good luck!
Kim L.
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Author: Pam
Date: 2001-03-31 19:46
It will come naturally eventually I think. I also played clarinet and trombone in high school. Now I'm in a handbell choir and sometimes read bass clef for that and sometimes treble. I'm learning piano too. Reading both at once, now that's pretty cool. ;-)
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Author: Michele
Date: 2001-04-01 00:04
Speaking of piano, I am having such a hard timereading two lines of music at the same time and making my hands do two different things! After having to read only one line of music and doing one thing this piano playing is hard. I am learning the piano along with my daugther.
I never learned the bass clef when playing the clarinet. When I had to learn the bass clef for the piano it was very hard for me to remember it. The treble clef notes were so ingrained in my head.
What finally helped me was looking at the treble and the bass clefs together as one big picture. The notes are continuous up the bass clef staff to the treble. I had always thought the the bass and treble clefs really didn't have anything to do with each other (okay, I admit I was pretty dumb). As soon as I realized that it was like one giant scale it made more sense to me.
michele
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Author: Jim
Date: 2001-04-01 04:59
Kim... I learned "All cars eat gas." (This was before OPEC!)
I fear clarinet ruined me for bass clef. I did learn it for a semester of piano in college, but forgot it just as fast. Interestingly, I sing barritone which is written in bass clef but I really can't name the notes without figuring them out. Like many singers, I sing intervals. Before my voice dropped a few tones in my 40s, I sang tenor which is written in treble clef, but sing 8 tones down. (Sometimes this is signified by using a special "tenor" clef, read the same as treble, or by putting the numeral "8" in place of the ball at the bottom of the treble clef.)
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Author: Aaron
Date: 2001-04-01 08:05
Well....i don't have a problem with getting the two mixed up. It's sometimes keeping the two in line with each other.....I'm currently playing bass clarient on the Poulenc Gloria with a regional symphony...The editor apparently didnt like ledgre lines, because the part constantly skips from bass to treble clef and back and forth for the entire piece. Luckily the bass clef parts are not in German notation so no transposition needed, but it was a pain to sight read at the first rehersal(I had to sight read it at the first rehersal because I only found out that I was needed to play a few hours before rehersal, so don't think i'm one who jumps into these things without preperation). The only problem with playing in the bass clef is adjustiing your thought to use the correct fingerings for the correct lines. It all falls into place though....
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Author: MIndy
Date: 2001-04-02 22:30
I have played the piano for my whole life (my mom is a piano teacher) and when I went to clarinet it was easy because I liked the treble clef. When I play the piano it is diffilcult (sp?) to read the bass clef but for the people who played the Clarinet first my mom always says that "if you start with the piano you then can go any instrument that you want bass or treble clef" So it is harder to go from a single line instrument to a double line instrument. You just have to keep on practicing on reading both lines and playing two different things with two hands. All I can says to
PRACTICE!!!!!! Thats all you can do.
Mindy
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-04-05 00:57
The problem is there's really no clarinet music in bass clef, so unless you're, say, reading Bach cello suites on the bass, it's hard to take things seriously on clarinet. Bassoon will give you a similar incentive.
I play a lot of recorder, and music for bass recorder is nearly always in bass clef. I practiced bass recorder in bass clef exclusively for a week and got reasonably comfortable. After about 2 weeks, I stoped getting "un-cleffed" all the time. After about a month playing both clefs, I was really comfortable, and after a couple of months I could go back and forth without having to think about it. YMMV. Keep at it. It will come faster than you think.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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