Re: transposing instruments

Marjorie Clarke said:
> "Richard Robinson" <richardR@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>
>> But, treble&bass clefs on a piano mean doing different things with
>> different hands (usually), it's still a unified set of moves, a single
>> group of behaviours to learn. Shift recorders and you have to learn
>> to change your previous behaviour, learn that what you learnt before
>> doesn't apply; in ways that are different from the generalising about
>> clefs that you'd do to grasp the fingers-on-piano stuff.
>
> I've been following the whole thread with interest; all I can add is that if
> you think in terms of tonic sol-fa, you can switch from one recorder to
> another with no problems. If you're reading from staff, you need to know
> which dot is "doh" and then you don't need to worry too much about the
> note-names.

Yes, relative pitches rather than absolute; how far up or down to the next
note, rather than what they're called.


Lots of people are better at reading than by ear, or vice versa - is that
the difference in thinking that lies behind it ?

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