Eflat charts

Eugene

Where could I find charts for alto clarinet had a chance to jam with some gypsises and it works really good but I dont transpose very good.

Jazzaferri

What songs are you looking for heads on.

spatzo

You must just think the note you want to change is the minor third of the note you should play.

Considering the notes are placed on a 5 lines staff you just imagine the note placed graphically immediately below the given note is the transposed one for the Eb instrument :

So two solutions can be written on a line or on a space of that 5 lines staff (or stave):

- the transposed note is placed on the line below the one where is written the given note
- the transposed note is placed on the space below the one where is written the given note

For example:

under C there is an A
under D there is an B
under A there is an F
under G there is an E
and so on...

It works very well and is immediate.

On sax you can also very easily imagine your note is two fingers below the written note:

- you play B with the 1 finger of left hand (1=index) and you must close 2 and 3 to get a G
- You play F with the 1 finger of right hand (1=index) and you must close 2 and 3 to play a D

Best

Jazzaferri

Often one can find bass clef real books on sale for cheap cheap I recently bought 2 at $5 each

Pretend the bass clef is a treble clef, play the notes as written and add three sharps to the key signature

Eugene

Oh yes I forgot about the bass clef book I remember I did it years ago.What about chord changes and improviseing on themI suppose I just have to write them out A m7 would be F#-7. Bmaj would beG#maj or is it Aflat maj theres some others like this .Is this right.

spatzo

perfect!

Jazzaferri

Chords will be a minor third below what is written in the bass clef book. Don't forget to transpose the key signature

F 1b becomes D 2#. G 1# becomes E 4#

Bb 2b becomes G1#

Db 5b becomes Bb 2bs etc etc

AndyW

i can transpose any of my charts in the Bb section to Eb & upload . any requests?

GerrySax

I prefer to think what degree of the scale a note is.
Eg if I'm transposing from C to A for alto, if I see a G I think 5th and write E. I think getting your brain thinking that way easily is handy in all sorts of ways.