Hi Jeffrey,
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Originally Posted by Jeffrey610
Please elaborate on your comment "I play bass and so used the Staff/Transpose instrument key to get it up to readable".
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Bass (and guitar) are both transposing instruments only because they both "sound" an octave below where their notation is written.
So, for example, a bass sheet where there is a middle C written, when played on a bass or guitar, actually sounds at the C that is on the next to bottom space of the bass clef.
If you want a musician to read their music from a file you come up with in Composer we have a feature for that
You can see in Staff/Transpose that there are 2 types of transposition. The one we're talking about here is "Transpose...to each instrument's key".
- You can write everything out in "concert key" and then
- use Staff/ Transpose to each instrument's key.
- Click "Next" (this first dialog is just to make sure you're choosing the right transposition).
- Now click "Look up all instrument transpositions" to have Composer automatically look up the instrument transpositions for each staff. If you've named your Staff for a band member like "Rudy" you may need to click the individual "Look Up" button and find Rudy's instrument.
- Then click Finish and Composer will show you the staff in the instrument's transposed key.
You can go to Help/User Guide and then use the Index to look up more information about transposing under the topic "transpose".
So when I transposed the bass line for reading, I did the above to bring the notation up an octave to give the sheet that I would read and play.
ttfn,
Sherry