![]() ![]() The music notation is then written out in 3 keys. These books that are available with backing tracks can be done two ways.ġ) there is only one version of the backing track. Confronted with such a chart, I'd have to make a copy and white out the "wrong" chords! The sheet music is confusing, I'd never seen anything like it with both symbols, one on top of the other. They probably should have put the transposing key somewhere more accessible, because it's not an unreasonable assumption that if you own a Bb instrument, you also own an Eb. The music will be in the key you want to play in and the chords will appear as they should be for the Eb or Bb instrument. Confronted with such a chart, I'd have to make a copy and white out the "wrong" chords!īottom line, you must set the key of the song to that which you want here (concert key) and set the transpose to Bb or Eb according to which instrument you want to see chords in and play. For example, a song in C concert will be written as A for the alto. I hate when the chords are notated for the instrument. In concert, you just set the key to what you want and the backing and the chords on screen are the same. ![]() It is very easy to get it wrong.īecause I think in concert all the time, I didn't know that iReal Pro had a transcribe setting, never saw it. What is confusing in your case is that the notes have been written out the same for tenor and alto, and the key of the backing track has to be changed depending on which instrument you are playing. This is what we do in Café SOTM and BOTM. Concert C minor) and different notes are provided for tenor (in D minor) and alto (in A minor). Usually a backing track is provided in a single key (e.g. So alto D minor becomes concert F minor and alto F major becomes concert Ab major.įor iReal Pro, the trick is always to set the right concert pitch first, and then choose the instrument (Bb or Eb). This is because the alto is an Eb transposing instrument, which means if you finger a C, it sounds an Eb, and hence if you finger a D, it sounds an F. If an alto is playing in any written key, then the accompaniment needs to be a minor third up - F minor in this case. So tenor D minor becomes concert C minor and tenor F major becomes concert Eb major. This is because the tenor is a Bb transposing instrument, which means that if you finger a C, it sounds a concert Bb, and hence if you finger any note, it sounds a whole tone lower. ![]() If a tenor horn is playing in any written key, then the backing needs to be one whole tone down - C minor in this case. Though for iRealPro, I don’t think it matters whether you choose the major or the relative minor, so F major and D minor will both work in this case. A good tip is to look at the last note - most songs end on the tonic. ![]() One flat in the key signature is F major or D minor, so it’s a matter of deciding whether the piece is in the major or minor key. What makes it worse is that set as is it all sounds fine to my ears! is it more difficult than that? If so, please explain but assume I have only one brain cell. Am I correct in saying my iRealPro screen (as above) is set for tenor sax rather than alto, and do I simply need to alter Global Transposing to Eb or Bb each time I use whichever sax, alto or tenor? But I don't recall EVER seeing the settings page before and I've done recordings (some posted on the Cafe) which sound fine. which on the face of it says I set this to tenor Bb at some point. I have found how to access the Global Transposing setting, and mine looks like this. I can read music and that's just about it, and if I played with a band I'd perhaps understand more about theory. If you only play alto, you probably only need to set global transpose once and leave it there."īit of gobbledegook there for me. Remember the key you set in song view is for concert key (so the player knows what key you want to hear it in, 'sounding pitch') whereas the chords you are looking at are in the key for your alto (set in global transpose.) ".Global transpose does work, but you might see inconsistencies in the enharmonics (Cb instead of B, or in II-V-I progressions for instance) but this is the case with transpose in song view also. Typicaly they say something like this one: So I've done a Google but the thread which come up aren't that useful to me as I'm not great on music theory. T recall whether I last used iRealPro with a tenor or alto but I noticed the "Ballad Bb-part" top left of the backing track and thought "is that right?" ![]()
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