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Author: Radicaldave
Date: 2005-10-08 23:43
I got some alto sax sheet music but the first to notes are b# then c the sax doesnt have b# so someone told me to play c but the second note is c does this mean i have to transpose the whole piece, i was hoping i wouldnt need to as its written for alto sax, im confused
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Author: Dee
Date: 2005-10-09 20:54
B# is the same as C. It simply means you play the note C and then the note C again. The reason that they are written differently has to do with how chords are written. In an individual instrument sheet, that is not evident but if you could see the printout of the entire chord, it would make sense.
Listen to the band as a whole and you should be able to hear the chord change even though your note stays the same but is simply written differently.
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Author: Björn
Date: 2005-10-10 17:12
B# is just the same note as C. It's not that your instrument can't play it, it's just like that. B# is the same as E and E# is the same as F.
It's probably written like that because it 'feels' a little bit different when you play those two notes together with the piano. It sounds of course the same, but is 'feels' different i you know what I mean. E.g. G# is the same as Ab but G# 'feels' happy, Ab feels a little bit more sad.
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Author: guest
Date: 2005-10-12 16:40
Like Dee said, play c once and then again. It may be a solo piece for sax, but those notes do have different chordal relationships with the piano part.
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Author: Rox
Date: 2005-11-09 19:35
i'm trying to find "i feel good" by james brown for alto saxophones
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