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08-25-2009, 10:47 PM
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How can piano sheet music, ie the bass clef part, be translated into a bass line? In some cases, the bass clef appears to have notes lower than a standard tuned 4 string can go, but I gather it translates differently when played with a bass? |
08-25-2009, 11:17 PM
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You can technically do some of it, I guess...just be aware of any chords your run into. Also, the notes do translate differently; everything you play in bass clef on the bass is actually an octave lower than how it's written for bass guitar/double bass music.
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08-26-2009, 07:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Woking, Surrey, UK. | | | Bass Guitar (and Double Bass) sound an Octave lower than written, so when reading a piano copy, you need to play the notes on the Bass line an octave higher to be correct.
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08-26-2009, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by conundrum How can piano sheet music, ie the bass clef part, be translated into a bass line? In some cases, the bass clef appears to have notes lower than a standard tuned 4 string can go, but I gather it translates differently when played with a bass? | Man, that's something I've been wondering myself. Thanks for asking that, conundrum, conundrum. 
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08-26-2009, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by conundrum How can piano sheet music, ie the bass clef part, be translated into a bass line? In some cases, the bass clef appears to have notes lower than a standard tuned 4 string can go, but I gather it translates differently when played with a bass? | Often when you get piano scores there is not a bassline in there - or it will be mixed up with the low notes of the chords - used to fill out the sound of the chord.
In this case it usually easier just to write your own bass line based on the chords!
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