shedophone
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Frankly, its a nightmare!
i would like to have a moan on behalf of us people who are the human tuning fork for the musical world.
Unless the only notes you have ever played are on a Bb instrument/Eb instrument, its almost impossible to learn a brass band instrument properly!
I walked into my first euph lesson, got told to play a C, and spent ages looking for it around various valve combinations! When i play my open note i am playing a Bb. My mind will not let me call this a C. (A spade is a spade?)
therefore, i have learnt the instrument to my pitch, and a C is played with 1 and 3. All is well and good of course until i try and play a piece of music...
Everything i play is in the wrong key- so i have to transpose everything down a tone at sight! At first this was a nightmare, but it got a lot easier the more i did it. For me, the bass clef is welcome relief...
But imagine playing an Eb instrument! I'd love to learn the tenor horn but the thought of transposing everything at sight into Eb pitch turns my stomach!
Please let there be people out there who know what i mean. How have you learned to play your instruments? :cry:
i would like to have a moan on behalf of us people who are the human tuning fork for the musical world.
Unless the only notes you have ever played are on a Bb instrument/Eb instrument, its almost impossible to learn a brass band instrument properly!
I walked into my first euph lesson, got told to play a C, and spent ages looking for it around various valve combinations! When i play my open note i am playing a Bb. My mind will not let me call this a C. (A spade is a spade?)
therefore, i have learnt the instrument to my pitch, and a C is played with 1 and 3. All is well and good of course until i try and play a piece of music...
Everything i play is in the wrong key- so i have to transpose everything down a tone at sight! At first this was a nightmare, but it got a lot easier the more i did it. For me, the bass clef is welcome relief...
But imagine playing an Eb instrument! I'd love to learn the tenor horn but the thought of transposing everything at sight into Eb pitch turns my stomach!
Please let there be people out there who know what i mean. How have you learned to play your instruments? :cry: