Q. I LOVE Taylor Swift, I purchased a song book that was for piano and it only had the right hand, so treble clef. I really want to play it on my clarinet and playing the piano music doesn't sound right! How do I transpose the music?
A. If you're playing it alone and not playing along to a recording - then you don't need to transpose it at all. It doesn't matter what key your clarinet is in if you're the only one playing.
If you want to transpose the part for clarinet then you play every pitch up one full step (or 2 half steps) to put the part in your key. Doing that will allow you to play along with a guitar or piano player reading the same part. So, every Bb you see in the music becomes a C, every C becomes D, every Eb becomes F - everything up one whole step. [this is the same way you determine which scale to play when asked for a concert scale]
A music book with only right hand (usually has chord symbols and lyrics) is called a "lead sheet" or "fake sheet". It's not really for "piano" at all - it's for whoever would like to play it. Rock, Jazz, and Folk musicians use those all the time.
Hint, it's easier for you to take all of the chords down one full step for a guitar player than to take every note up a full step for you. âªâ« Being able to do this at sight is a really good skill to have though. And, yes, this is indeed called "transposing" because clarinet is a transposing instrument. By raising every pitch a full step, the effective key signature is changed as well. But, that particularity is of no consequence to a player using this transposing method.
How do I transpose from one key to another?
Q. Okay so I play Euphonium which is in the key of B flat (I play in treble) . I'm trying to transpose a piano piece that's in the key of B (five sharps), but nothing seems to be working. Please help!
A. Bb major to B major here is the chords from Bb to B
Bbmaj ------------- Bmaj
Cm -------------- C#m
Dm ---------------D#m
Ebmaj -----------------Emaj
F7 -----------------F#7
Gm ---------------G#m
Adim ---------------A#dim
Basically the chord remains the same, being a major minor dim or dom just move the pitch a semitone
What are the piano chords in Till I Get There by Lupe Fiasco?
Q. I'm not in any way an expert pianist and cannot pick out songs by ear. I mainly only know how to sight read sheet music and can remember chords.
What's the chord progression for Lupe Fiasco's Till I Get There off his newest album Lasers?
A. It seems to me that the 4 notes are: C, C sharp, B, B flat. However I'm probably most likely wrong. The chords were kinda hard to figure out. Here are the first chords in order. (Note that they're probably wrong but I tried to get it as close as possible). I'm going based off what I'm hearing because I don't have the notes. Hope I helped somehow. I'm sure someone will post the correct version on youtube soon.
1) C sharp, F, A flat (press all those three notes at once then go to number 2 and do the same in order)
2. C, F, A flat
3) B, D, F Sharp
4) B flat, C sharp, F sharp
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