Music gurus. I need help.

[bassboy1]

I play trombone in 8th grade top concert band.  Our school band has always gotten top marks in the district wide large group performance evaluation.

Well, my scout troop is getting band members to play for the church.  We have 3 trombones, but only one person with the melody.  Since this is a simple song, and the other players are younger, and less experienced I got chosen (I volunteered) to help with the melody part.  But, it is in treble clef, and I play base clef.  I know that you just move up or down a couple of notes, but am not sure.  Could you please help get the flute music into bass clef that a trombone can read.

Thanks in advance.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

My niece is a flutist, I will forward this to her tonight, she may be able to help.

[Panamoka_Bassin]

Two steps is all you need to know, my man,  An A on the Bass cleff turns into a C on the treble cleff.  So, your  below the staff is a C below the staff.  Just get yourself some manuscript paper and transpose it.  Its good to learn how to transpose between bass and treble, especially if you're a serious musician.  The hard part comes when you're transposing different keys, i.e. from a song in C to a song in E.  It takes time, and you really have to know your scales, but like I said if you're serious, you'll want to learn how to do this anyway.

BTW, I'm sure there's a transposing program out there for download, but I don't know of one sepcifically.

Good luck and let us know how you did...

[bassboy1]

Thanks, later on last night, I found my younger sisters piano book, and it showed the treble clef notes.  So, I went and matched each note on the music, to the letter note in the book, and then write that letter note on a base clef bar.  I checked it on panamokas post and it seemed to work.

Thanks.

[ejtaylor822]

Hey bassboy1, have you gotten this yet?  If you can get me a copy of the music I could probably write it out for you.  Just let me know.

However, I will tell you that it would not hurt to learn treble clef.  This may not be the right time if you need to get this done in a hurry.  But, at some point in the future might be worth your while.  You will find that a lot of solo pieces are written in treble.

Just let me know.

Eddie

[ejtaylor822]

bassboy1, looks like you posted a reply as I writing my response. If you are looking for the note names, sounds like you found them. If not here they are

Treble Clef:

------------------------------------F-------

E

----------------------------D--------------

C

--------------------B-----------------------

A

-------------G------------------------------

F

-----E--------------------------------------

Treble staff lines: E, G, B, D, F (Every Good Boy Does Fine - cheesy but it works - corresponds to G, B, D, A on the bass clef)

Treble staff space: F, A, C, E (just the word - corresponds to A, C, E, G on the bass clef)

Didn't realize this is what you were really needing.

Good luck,

Eddie

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

E G B D F = Every good boy digs fishing    Just keepin' it reel. (yes, I know how to spell real,lol)

[ejtaylor822]

Like that one, LBH.  Will definitely remember that one!

Eddie