Show me how to transpose please?

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#1

If an Alto Sax’s piece is in the key of F. (aka piece of F# and C#'s) Would that go for the same for every other instrument? For example, a trumpet?

I’m trying to work out a song, but it just doesn’t sound right in some measures (22 thru 25 & 33 thru 37):

I’d be very much liked if you could lead me to the right direction!!! Thankyou.

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#2

If you actually have the sheet music, you’re going to have to do some transposing. Every instrument in notessimo has been programmed as a C instrument, even the ones which --in reality-- are not. For the example you gave of trumpet, you’ll have to transpose everything up a whole step to put it from Bb into C (assuming you’re looking at music for a Bb trumpet). The reason that it sounds weird is because you’re mixing the keys of F and Bb, which don’t go together very well (in my opinion; I haven’t studied music theory ). If you play around with transposition for a while, you should be able to come up with what you want. Hope this helps you get the results you’re looking for!

#3

Wow that’s pretty much useless. I hope they’ll fix this in the BETA version upon releasing. Seriously, I thought this was supposed to be an improved music programme!

I play Alto Saxophone, by the way. I always had this small theory in the back of my head that these are all in the keys of C.
Ugh… I’d probably be a good idea to re-transpose everything from scratch, because Alto sax was WAY TO HIGH to start off with.

Pain in the arse!!! :sad emoticon:

EDIT: Alto Sax is Eb btw, not F.

#4

After being told that this game has instruments all programmed in C for SOME reason, I question to you all:

How exactly do you transpose given from sheet music?

Example: An Eb saxophone’s G# would = ???
Please show me!

Can you work out this and transpose the Alto Saxophones piece? I have it written exactly as it appears on the sheet music, so it’s in Eb. How would I get that to C?

#5

i would probably move it down 1 1/2 steps

#6

Just find the number of half-steps between the key of the instrument and C.
Example:
Alto Sax is in Eb
to get to C you need to go 3 half-steps lower
in that case, G# would need lowered 3 half-steps
G# → G → F# → F

#7

Okay. Thanks.

EDIT: Wait, wouldn’t it be 3 half steps higher? 'Cause C > C# > D > Eb?

#8

that is what i said just i said it more simply

#9

Wouldn’t it be 3 half-steps higher because C → C# → D → Eb

EDIT: I also revised it. Can you check if it’s all right? It sounds fine to me.

EDIT2: Lol trumpets… Ugh. I’ll probably have to transpose that too even though I didn’t use goddamn sheet music.

#10

No. It is not 3 half steps higher. It would be 3 half steps lower because you are going from Eb → C not C → Eb.
Now if you were doing Bb, like a trumpet. Here is from Bb to C: Bb → B → C
2 half steps up

#11

Do I even have to transpose it? I didn’t use sheet music for it!

Kinda confused here. The alto sax’s piece was in the key of F. Does that go for every other instrument too that’s not a C instrument?

I say this because the trumpet’s music is in the key of F(?) when it’s a programmed C instrument when in reality it’s actually Bb!!!

#12

it would be coll to select the tuning for the instruments, but it’d probably be a lot of work for Starburst.

#13

First of all YAA ALTO SAX!!! YEEE, now back to this,Hm, well if it’s writen in F Means you have a Bb in the key signature, So You’d have to transpose that key down to the concert scale, so you’d go down three semitones, So from F > E > Eb > D, and you’d have to do that with every note, say you have a Bb, got Bb > A > G# > G,I think, I’m not very strong wit htransposing though

#14

I think the guy who posted this was hoping there would be a auto-transpose feature

#15

I agree lol, but it’s really not that hard to do by using just your musical knowledge, and it would probably be really hard to add a transposing element in the game, of course I have no idea when it comes to programing so I wouldn’t know, and it would probably be a pain for those who don’t know about transposing and such

#16

its on tuxguitar, but thats open source, so they had many people to help. If starburst did it, he would have to do it alone

#17

Yeah, Starbust COULD try to implement that into the game somehow, but I think it’s best if it stays like that cause if people don’t know about the different transposing, and they just want to add a certani note on a sax sound they would most likely be confused