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Author: alanporter
Date: 2009-09-20 20:47
I vaguely remember reading somewhere (? here ?) that for a Bb clarinet to transpose from concert C in bass clef, you could add two sharps or remove two flats and read it as treble clef. I tried it and it doesn't work. Is my brain totally out of gear ?
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Author: ebonite
Date: 2009-09-20 21:12
alanporter wrote:
> I vaguely remember reading somewhere (? here ?) that for a Bb
> clarinet to transpose from concert C in bass clef, you could
> add two sharps or remove two flats and read it as treble clef.
> I tried it and it doesn't work. Is my brain totally out of
> gear ?
>
You forgot the final step: imagine you're playing a saxophone.
e.g. 2nd space C in bass clef looks like 2nd space A in treble clef. Play A as on a sax, with L1 and L2, and it becomes D on a clarinet.
This only works in the low register.
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Author: Sambo 933
Date: 2009-09-20 21:41
I would just bring all the pitches up one step then an octave or two or three (depending on the register I want them in).
This may be the long way of doing it though.
I play bass guitar as well as clarinet and I have on occasion transposed music from Bb clarinet to bass cleff for bass guitar, which is in C.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2009-09-21 02:28
No matter what clef you look at you still have to play one step higher to transpose a C part on a Bb clarinet. Yes, you do add 2 sharps so the key of G becomes the key of A or take off two flats so the key of Eb becomes the key of F, always one step higher. So if you look at a written C in the bass clef you still have to play a D no matter what clef you look at. You just have to account for the octave it's written in and the clarinet can't go below the written D in the bass clef so on a Bb clarinet that would be your lowest E, one step higher the written. ESP
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