So I'm playing a few songs for my school's show choir band and one of the songs switches from a Bass Clef to a Treble Clef. How do I play/do that? I'm not even exactly sure where or if there even is a "Middle C" on bass.
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Play treble clef on bass?
- Thread starter wesman2232
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The bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds (as is the double bass) to avoid excessive ledger lines.
Middle C is the 17th fret on the G string.
Once in awhile in classical music, especially on solo passages, bass music is written in treble. If you can read treble then it's pretty obvious where the lines are to be played - usually up pretty high.
Lines = E G B D F bottom to top, Spaces = F A C E bottom to top.
It's a good idea to learn to read treble because it is the most common clef.
I used to be able to sightread treble pretty well - not now. Use it or lose it!
Middle C is the 17th fret on the G string.
Once in awhile in classical music, especially on solo passages, bass music is written in treble. If you can read treble then it's pretty obvious where the lines are to be played - usually up pretty high.
Lines = E G B D F bottom to top, Spaces = F A C E bottom to top.
It's a good idea to learn to read treble because it is the most common clef.
I used to be able to sightread treble pretty well - not now. Use it or lose it!
if you look at the grand staff,which is the treble clef over a bass clef staff with one ledger line between.....that is middle C.....the actual pitch is one octave lower than written tho' so the majority of dots lie on the staff.....so ascending from the bass clef staff in C the top line is A,the space above the staff is B,then middle C,next space is D,and that brings you to the first line of the treble clef which would be......
