Bass clef or Treble clef??

[steveksux]

I voted treble clef cause most sheet music is written in that. In my experience its pretty rare to get someone handing you bass cleff stuff to play at a gig. Everyone else pretty much reads treble clef, so that's what everyone else has, and you'll get handed a xerox of what they have, treble clef. If you're going to share lead sheets, or get copies of others sheets, they'll be in treble clef. Bb horns like trumpet typically learn to transpose from Treble clef on the fly. See a C, play a D, etc.

Once you read treble clef well, its not so hard to transpose bass clef to treble for the few times you get bass clef material.

I would expect it would be completely different in the classical world, and bass clef music for bassists would be considerably more common.

Randy

[seanm]

I am surprised by some of the replies. I assumed bass players would be given material in the bass clef.Silly me.

What would you be given in a standard chord chart (if there is such a thing as a standard)? I assume a lead sheet just gives the melody with the chords above ala piano music?