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One set of fingerings for all instruments in a particularįamily. Is to make things easy so that people only need learn The ironic thing about transposition is that the intention You just have to learn the different fingerings. For example, the recorderįamily traditionally reads concert pitch no matter which Some instruments ignore the issue of different fingeringsįor different sized instruments. To know is that Eb transposed music in treble clef (eg:Īlto or baritone sax) can be read as bass clef concert Pitch with a few accidentals adjusted -) A useful trick However, you can read this as if it were tenor clef concert They read treble clef transposed into Bb and up an octave. Trombones mostly read concert pitch (bass tenor or altoĬlefs), but in some cases, most often brass band music,

In the days when every household had a piano, and everyone bought Tin Pan Alley charts for vocal and piano, the C melody sax was developed so the player could play along with the family without having to sight-transpose. Now, clarinet and sax - that's always a challenge, because they don't have the same fingerings, and often a sax player will accidentally use a clarinet fingering, with unintended results. If you want the pitch you would hear if you play F on the piano, you would write a G for the tenor sax and a D for the alto. To correct for this, you transpose the written note to where the player will natually use the right fingering to get the right pitch. Since the instruments are a different size, thought, that fingering will produce one pitch on the first instrument and a totally different one on the other. If you see a D on the staff, it's best if you finger it the same way on any of your instruments. If you regularly "double" between various members of the sax family, it can be difficult to remember different fingerings. If the tenor and alto were to be played in unison, the two players would have to use different fingerings to get the same pitch. A certain finger position will produce one pitch on the tenor and a different pitch on the alto due to their different sizes. Instruments are said to be pitched in different keys because the musicians read from parts that have been transposed - thus "transposing instruments." Transposing the written part makes life a lot easier for the musician who plays more than one instrument.Ĭonsider the Bb tenor sax and the somewhat smaller Eb alto sax. Let a clarinet player who doubles on sax confuse you a little.