Transpoing for a Bb Trumpet. Question....

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:51 pm

Change the note to treble clef, then up a whole step
ie: C-C-D

king2ba · Post by **king2ba** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:05 am

Don't forget to change the key signature, too! A piece in Bb Major (2 flats) for tuba, will have no sharps or flats for Bb trumpet.

PS...did you get my note? I happen to be at work late tonight, and thought you'd get a chuckle out of my message! Three tubas for variations on a theme of Hydan....yikes!

king2ba · Post by **king2ba** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:17 am

You're just lucky I didn't write it in Crayon! They are all I could find in the 1st grade area...I had to hunt special for the colored pencil!

Randy Beschorner · Post by **Randy Beschorner** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:47 pm

Or use the heart to dot the "i" in King

king2ba · Post by **king2ba** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:57 pm

You guys are bad people! Now, I have to find a way to REALLY embarrass this kid!

Albertibass · Post by **Albertibass** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:05 pm

if you are fluent with tenor clef, you can flip the clef to tenor, and just adjust the key signiture, and i guess read it down an octave from tenor cleff, which shouldnt be hard.

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:55 pm

windshieldbug wrote:Change the note to treble clef, then up a whole step
ie: C-C-D

I'm not sure from his question if he knows what the notes are in the treble clef....it seemed like he was asking should he put it on the same line as in bass clef, or not. (not a comment on what people should know, just what they might or might not know.)

So...just in case...if it's on the bottom line in bass clef (G of course) then you have to put it on the next-to-bottom line in the treble clef to make it a G, then move it up one step to the next space, which would make it an A. Since Bb trumpet sounds down one step from where it is written, that would make the trumpet play a G. And since trumpet is a Bb instrument, two flats are "understood" in the clef; you have to have two more sharps (or two fewer flats) in the key signature than you do in the tuba key signature.

MA, who is having fun playing trumpet duets lately. I do fine until there are a lot of accidentals and then my fingers and my brain get a little tangled with that clef still.

Bob Mosso · Post by **Bob Mosso** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:06 pm

And, since a trumpet has only 3 valves make sure nothing is written below Gb/F# (in Bb, below the TC staff, E in concert pitch).

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:49 pm

You wouldn't ask that question if you went started on the trumpet like we did back in the OLD DAYS!

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:32 am

LoyalTubist wrote:You wouldn't ask that question if you went started on the trumpet like we did back in the OLD DAYS!

I resemble that remark! 5th grade, fall of 1972.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:37 am

You are a youngster, too.

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Transpoing for a Bb Trumpet. Question....

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