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RE: Church Musicians

Author: Eileen
Date: 2002-09-24 17:51

For those who are playing clarinet in small groups with primarily guitars, you might want to suggest that the guitar players transpose a step down instead of you transposing a step up. Given the relative ease with which a guitar player can transpose chords (especially with the assistance of a capo or, for the rock player, moveable barre chords), there seems no reason for the burden to be on the clarinet player to be always transposing a melody into difficult key signatures.

For example, no guitar player should have a major problem tranposing a I-IV-V pattern in E to a I-IV-V pattern in D. Then you can play the melody as written and the guitars are still in an easy key. Ditto for a piece in A transposed to G on guitar, a piece in D transposed to C, etc.

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2002-09-22 20:20