Transposing from tenor to trebel to bass clef?!
Question: yesterday in jazz band, my teacher told us about a quick way to transpose music my just changing the clef that it is in. i understand how to do it, but does anyone know which instrument you change to what clef if you are on the tenor saxophone?
ex. change Eb instrument to C instrument? which clef do i use?
thanks in advance!
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Answers: yesterday in jazz band, my teacher told us about a quick way to transpose music my just changing the clef that it is in. i understand how to do it, but does anyone know which instrument you change to what clef if you are on the tenor saxophone?
ex. change Eb instrument to C instrument? which clef do i use?
thanks in advance!
<3 tenors!ROCK <3
There's a couple of quick ones like that but you have to change the key signature too.
For instance
[Printed C treble = sounding Bflat]
If a concert pitch instrument wants to read a Bflat transposing part use tenor clef add two flats or take away two sharps (same thing) to the key signature
[Becomes Printed Bflat in tenor clef non-transposing ]
[Printed C treble = sounding Eflat]
For Eflat transposing parts read bass clef add three flats or take away three sharps to the key signature
[Becomes printed Eflat in bass clef non-transposing]
How does he plan to accomplish that?
Changing the clef moves the location of C (on the tenor clef, c' is located on the forth line, on the treble clef c' is on the third space) moving the tonal center, changes the accidental structure. Just moving up a note doesn't cut it, you'll have to change from, let's say, the key of G (one sharp) to the key of A (three sharps)
... or am I missing something here?