I need to learn to sight transpose tuba/bass parts to bass sax for a new band I have an opportunity to join. That means reading bass clef and going up a step, or pretending it’s treble clef and going up a fourth, same as you would if you were reading an alto part on tenor.
What approaches have worked for you? Personally I’m a little quicker doing it the first way. So I’m inclined to stick with that. But it’s very slow going for my nearly 60 y/o brain considering my bass clef reading isn’t very solid to begin with. Rewriting all the parts in my key would be ideal, but there are too many charts for that to be a realistic solution.
Phase two is transposing the chord symbols. Sounds easy enough, but with the added burden of improvising a good bass line at the same time, I’m slow at that as well.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
What approaches have worked for you? Personally I’m a little quicker doing it the first way. So I’m inclined to stick with that. But it’s very slow going for my nearly 60 y/o brain considering my bass clef reading isn’t very solid to begin with. Rewriting all the parts in my key would be ideal, but there are too many charts for that to be a realistic solution.
Phase two is transposing the chord symbols. Sounds easy enough, but with the added burden of improvising a good bass line at the same time, I’m slow at that as well.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.