I was then going to figure out how to transpose to piano, not knowing about or understanding "concert pitch." May I follow up on this and your other much appreciated reply?īefore writing for alto sax I first went to the instrument dialog box but could not find an option for an E flat instrument. So if you were to march or dance to it, the steps would coincide with half notes, not quarter notes. The short version is, they are trying to suggest the fundamental "feel" of the piece is two beats per measure. Had your original contained any F's, they would have transposed as Ab, not to worry.Ģ) Not related to transposition, but to learn more about time signatures, beast to read up that in a book on reading music. Your example doesn't have any F's, though - only F#'s. Or maybe you didn't use that dialog at all and just used the arrow keys? not clear what you did.ġ) F does transpose tio Ab. But if you do choose to go that route, be sure not to uncheck the option to transpose key signatures, which it seems you may have done for some reason. You shouldn't need to manually use Notes / Transpose at all.
This increases the speed of the reed so much it isn't feeding any of the low frequencies in so you just hear the higher harmonics.It isn't quite clear what you have done here, but normally, if you had created the music for alto sax in the first place, then it would automatically transpose for piano just by clicking Concert Pitch, or if you right click the staff, go to Staff Properties, and Change Instrument to piano. I think you can do something similar, but less sophisticated by overblowing a reed instrument. So increasing the number of notes he can play.
This means he can pick which of the harmonics are going to get amplified. I will draw a string as it is easier: A trumpet can make so many notes becasue the trumpet player can alter the properties of his lips to change the frequencies going into the body of the trumpet. A tube or a stretched string actually has several frequecies it will resonate at. A trumpet works on a similar principle, but because you only have 3 buttons and therefore 6 lengths of tube you have to take advantage of something called harmonics. Opening holes will alter the length that the pipe behaves as if it is, so altering the pitch. Air rushing up and down the body of the saxaphone will tend to resonate at certain frequencies (pitches) these will mostly depend on how long the pipe is - a longer pipe takes more time for the air to rush up and down it, so is at a lower frequency. Think of it like a swing - if you are sitting on a swing and wobbling your legs, if you do it at the right speed your swing builds up and your input is amplified, but do it at any other speed and you don't swing at all. The instrument will then resonate at some frequencies better that other. So you are putting lots of different pitches into the body of the instrument. The reed opens and shuts sharply making the air flow start and stop very abruptly In order to make this air flow up from sine waves you need a huge number of different ones.