Yikes! What a cluttered, disorganized MESS!
Even I consider this in need of some "De-Cluttering & Re-Organization".
Thanks.
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Double Bass Ledger line notation question
- Thread starter Chris Fitzgerald
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Even I consider this in need of some "De-Cluttering & Re-Organization".
Thanks.
Chris -
I don't know if it's too late for my comment to be helpful, but if it is...
If I were reading these, I would prefer that, where they need to go onto the treble clef, that they make the switch at (written) middle C. Using ledger lines and then switching to treble clef makes my brain stop and re-evaluate where I was and whether I'd made a mistake. The key-of-C exercise particularly.
The key-of-G exercise I would expect to read going up to the G three ledger lines above the bass clef without any problem, but more lines than this I find slows me down. The octave G is generally my cut-off if I'm writing or transcribing, and if I need to spend any real time above this I go back and start the clef change from a sensible place where I cross written middle C.
There's raging debate on another part of the site at the moment, but some of these, like the key of D, could sit really nicely on the tenor clef without changing clef at all [ducks for cover].
I don't know if it's too late for my comment to be helpful, but if it is...
If I were reading these, I would prefer that, where they need to go onto the treble clef, that they make the switch at (written) middle C. Using ledger lines and then switching to treble clef makes my brain stop and re-evaluate where I was and whether I'd made a mistake. The key-of-C exercise particularly.
The key-of-G exercise I would expect to read going up to the G three ledger lines above the bass clef without any problem, but more lines than this I find slows me down. The octave G is generally my cut-off if I'm writing or transcribing, and if I need to spend any real time above this I go back and start the clef change from a sensible place where I cross written middle C.
There's raging debate on another part of the site at the moment, but some of these, like the key of D, could sit really nicely on the tenor clef without changing clef at all [ducks for cover].
I like to keep the F clef until the high harmonic G, (one octave above the open string) is what I prefer, before changing to treble clef. But this depends on the context.
