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Author: Lelia
Date: 1999-07-31 16:43
Learning to transpose in high school, I found it impractical to write in all the notes, but it did help me a lot to lightly pencil in some "crutches". For instance, I would write in the transposed key signature at the beginning and anywhere the key changed, with quotation marks around thekey signature letter so I wouldn't confuse it with the letter of the *note* I needed to play. At the beginning of a run, I'd write in the first note (without the quotation marks). Then I just followed the intervals. Same thing with the arpeggiated passages so common in wind music: if you have the first note, the intervals fall into place. It also helped me to work on the Klose exercises for arpeggios, scales and so forth and to play them in all the keys, to get used to playing the most common patterns without having to look at them one note at a time. Recognizing the pattern and realizing you already "have it in your fingers" is half the battle. I agree with people who said transposing is an important skill for a clarinet player -- and it's an easy one to just sort of skip learning! I don't think I would have learned to transpose if my piano teacher hadn't pushed me (to make me more useful as an accompanist for singers, who often need to take something up or down a note or two). I still find sight-transposing intimidating, but well worth the trouble of learning it.
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Sarah |
1999-07-30 10:36 |
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Andrea Bergamin |
1999-07-30 10:50 |
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Therese |
1999-07-30 12:02 |
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Dee |
1999-07-30 12:24 |
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Kevin Bowman |
1999-07-30 13:58 |
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John |
1999-07-30 14:57 |
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Rick2 |
1999-07-30 21:34 |
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Lelia |
1999-07-31 16:43 |
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Don Berger |
1999-07-31 18:52 |
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