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Old 06-06-2007, 02:54 PM
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Notation books that say they are for guitar and piano only

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I always see notation books with descriptions (like at a bookstores website or something) that say they are only for guitar, piano, and vocal but instead they have vocal, guitar, and notation with a bass clef. I would assume that this is notation for the bass, unless piano is sometimes notated with a bass clef.

I don't know why it says this when there is nothing for piano but there is stuff for bass. Does anyone know why this is and if it really is for bass?
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Old 06-06-2007, 03:00 PM
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The left hand stuff on piano (bass side) is written on notation with the bass clef.
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That's not guitar and bass you're seeing, that's piano, which is written on a treble and bass clef together. You can spot it by the curly brace that should be to the left of both lines.

EDIT: BTW, guitar and bass are written an octave higher than they sound. The piano will be playing that an octave higher than you probably expect.
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Old 06-06-2007, 04:26 PM
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Okay, I see it now, thanks.

What did you mean by the guitar and bass being written an octave higher than they sound? Are you referring to piano notation or just guitar or bass notation?
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Just guitar and bass. Piano, most voices and most instruments all read the same. For example, a bass's low E is written on the first line below the staff. A piano player would interpret that note as having a second-fret E's pitch. The same goes for the guitar. In guitar music, the first line below the staff is a third-fret C (an octave below middle C). Pianists, violinists, sopranos, and altos, would play middle C, found at a guitar's first fret, B string. Tenors read bass clef at pitch, but tenor music is also often found written in treble clef, with an understood octave down shift.

Technically, the correct way to indicate that a part should be played "ottava basso" (an eighth below, in Italian) is to write a little 8 attached to the bottom of the clef, but much of the time it is omitted and understood.
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hey, if you wanna learn the music from those, you can always just buy em and re-write em in bass clef (I forget the word for it)
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