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Re: transpose or not transpose

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-09-11 18:47

I think the only argument in your situation for sticking with the conventional pitch-fingering relationship is that you may be limiting your ensemble options in the future. If you ever want to play music that's actually published with a transposed clarinet part with no "concert pitch" version included, you'll have to solve the problem in reverse.

Otherwise, there are lots of self-taught players who play completely by ear without necessarily knowing what note they're playing. At least you'll have a system.

When I taught strings to elementary school students, it was surprising how well some of them did by only knowing what finger to put on what string for any given written note with no idea of the notes' "names" (as long as they stayed in 1st position).

Karl

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