[TPIN] Transposing help wanted

[David Arndt]

I always believed the best way to learn transposition is to take a piece of
music and just practice playing it in  different keys.  The lyric studies in
Arban are fine.  Do a little every day (with a metronome) and after a while
it will be more or less automatic.

(i.e., instead of playing "The Last Rose of Summer" in F, play it E, Eb, D,
C#, C... etc. pick some transpositions to work on each week, using a
different tune each day or so...).  Each persons thought process is
different - so instead of focusing on method, just "do it".  Pick material
that isn't too technically challenging or taxing at first.

The original problem presented on TPIN also included the element of time
pressure for an upcoming performance, which is a different kind of issue.
In that case, you have to just write it out (or memorize it quickly!)

- da

----- Original Message ----
From: Keith Reynolds trumpet1 at nycap.rr.com

1.  Learn the bass clef - it makes much of the transposing easier and some
of it leaves the realm of transposing and just becomes reading music.  

Hi Keith and TPIN...

I've heard lots of people make the above claim and I just don't understand
it. I DO understand the theory. It's the mechanics I don't get. Unless
you're playing whole notes or half notes, who has time to think of pitch
names.