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Help with Clarinets and Transposing?

By rose | January 6, 2009

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    I play clarinet in high school and every year I just get confused with transposing music and such
    When my conductor says play D Major scale (two sharps) What scale do i play on my Bb Clarinet? Is the correspoding scale called something else?
    Please Help me!


  • All you have to do is move it up one note, because concert Bb is one note under concert C. So it would be your E Major scale. E F# G# A B C# D# E


  • D E F# G A B C# D.... arpeggio D F# A C#


  • If you are playing the Concert D major scale, the clarinets would be playing in the key of E major. It's really very simple. Whatever note you read, it comes out one whole step lower. The reason this happens is supposedly to keep you from having to read so many ledger lines! (go figgur)

    You can make yourself a chart and post it on the inside of your folder until you get used to it

    Scale
    C Major - Play your D major scale
    F Major - Play Your G major scale
    B flat Major - Play Your C major scale
    E flat Major - Play Your F major scale
    A flat Major - Play Your B flat major scale
    D flat Major - Play your E flat Major Scale

    G Major - Play You A Major Scale
    D Major - Play Your E Major Scale
    E Mjaor - Play Your F# Major scale
    B Major - Play You C# Major Scale

    And so on. If you write it out in advance, you can just glance at it. Hope this helps.


  • It is the same notes. It doesn't matter that your clarinet is a Bflat clarinet. The scales don't change. so start on d and start playing d, e,F sharp, g, a, b, & c sharp.


  • You transpose for any Bb instument by going up two half-steps.

    Here is a link to a scale sheet that may be helpful. It is for trumpet, but clarinet is exactly the same. (you might play different octaves, though).
    pg. 1: http://www.sbac.edu/~lmsimp/default_file...
    pg. 2: http://www.sbac.edu/~lmsimp/default_file...

    The first letter is the note you will start on, and the letter in parentheses is the concert pitch (the name the director calls it by).


  • concert D major is E for us clarinets.
    you move it up one step.
    concert A is B
    concert B is C#
    concert Bb is C
    concert E is F#
    concert Eb is F







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