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Real Book - Key?


JuliusGroove
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Bb is for tenor sax, clarinet, trumpet, etc.

Eb is for alto sax, baritone sax, and a few others.

They're all transposing instruments... when you read a C as written on the page, the instrument actually plays a Bb or Eb. Sounds confusing, but there are very good reasons for it.

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C. No question (they don't do a bass clef version). For the sake of completion, the reason other keys are available is for what are called 'transposing instruments'. In short, some horns play a whole tone higher than concert so when you play a C, they would play a concert D so, in order for it all to work, the sheet music is transposed down a whole tone to Bb so, when they play a note 'as written', it sounds a whole tone lower than the note would normally indicate were it not a transposing instrument. Other instruments are a minor third lower so, in order for it to work, the music is transposed [i]up[/i] a minor third to Eb. There are other transposing instrument but, in popular music, C (treble and bass clef), Bb and Eb usually covers it. What came as a revelation to me as I became more and more familiar with writing for horns (I polay a saxophone but only at a VERY rudimentary level), was that reading a Bb clef and and Eb clef does NOT require new learning like, say, a treble clef and a bass clef would. A C on a Bb chart requires the saxophonist to put his or her fingers on the same notes which they would a C on an Eb chart. The chart does the transposition, not the horn player. It's all quite simple really, it just sounds complicated.

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[quote name='JuliusGroove' timestamp='1388590889' post='2323741']
Just found this: [url="http://www.amazon.com/The-Latin-Real-Easy-Book/dp/1883217709"]http://www.amazon.co...k/dp/1883217709[/url]

Its not the official latin Real book but it is in bass clef.. Anybody own this or seen it?

Publisher is Sher Music Co
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Nope, anyway try it, if something isn't good you can always return it. Amazon is one of the best store on the planet for the customer care and return policy ;-)
Cheers.

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there was a bass clef version when I was at Jazz School
here is link to latest(?) one
[url="http://www.amazon.com/The-Real-Book-Sixth-Edition/dp/0634060767"]http://www.amazon.com/The-Real-Book-Sixth-Edition/dp/0634060767[/url]

because I was pushed for time to learn sh*t the Bass Clef version I found easier. In treble clef as soon as it was above the stave I switch back to bass clef.

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