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RE: Tranposing

Author: Kevin Bowman
Date: 1999-07-30 13:58

Reading a note higher and mentally changing the key sig are the easy parts (IMO). The thing you will probably have to watch out for are the accidentals. Use you knowledge of music theory to help yourself in this respect. For example, if the piece you are playing is in (concert) C, then you will be playing in D (2 sharps). Now say you see a run in the music with accidentals and you can see that the run is based on a D major scale, then you will simply play the run (as tep higher) based on the E major scale. You would have seen two accidentals in the run (F#,C#) which transpose to accidentals in your key (G#, D#). Basically, when you see an accidental in the music, you will have a "accidental" in your transposition - that is there will be a note that is not "in" the trasposed key.

Hope this helps.
Regards,

Kevin Bowman
(who has been transposing a lot of Charlie Parker bebop on sight lately - whew!)

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