Think of an extension ladder with ten steps on each half. The distance between each step is equivalent to a semi-tone....
Wow, that's one awesome analogy! I had to read it a few times to make it sink in correctly, but between you two, David and Lawrie, I think I can get this down and understand why it's up 2 instead of down 2. I have practice tonight and will try out this new transposition. I have got to say the key signature looks a lot easier than my first couple of transpositions I did where I ended up with 4 flats *YIKES*.
Now that I have this down it will be fairly easy to transpose other instruments to my alto sax =) Though don't be surprised if I ask for help again as I'm sure it will take a little more time and convincing that I transposed correctly.
Again, I owe you guys big time as I'm not able to play most of the pieces in our orchestra because they don't have a saxophone part. This allows me to at least play something hehe.
Ok, so if I'm converting a horn in F to Eb sax, I go +2 semitones? So did I just do it backwards or something? Isn't an Horn in F a -7 and a Eb sax -9? so to get to a -9 wouldn't I go down 2 semitones?
So I am transposing HORN in F "A Festival of Carols" to Eb Sax. The Key signature is F Major. I did what you guys said and transposed it up 2 semitones with "Update Staff Playback Position" ticked. The result was the notes being a whole step up and the key was turned into G Major. Is this the right result?
I'm still not sure why I would go up instead of down.. I'm kind of dumb when it comes to transposing, haven't done it before by hand and unsure of the whole process (which is why I'm using Noteworthy). The horn part is in the treble so I didn't have to worry about bringing it up an octave.
So basically, If I have a Horn in F part that I want to transpose to Alto Sax, I transpose UP 2 semitones correct?
I'm trying to transpose some music from a Horn in F to a Eb Alto Sax. As a test, I'm trying to transpose White Christmas. The sax part has horn queue notes which I'm trying to match to the horn part itself with no luck. When I transpose the section in question, I can get the notes looking right but the key is off.
I've tried transposing other music from the same horn in F before but it seemed that when I played the transposed music on my sax it was off anywhere from a half step to 2 steps. What am I doing wrong? I've used the post in the forums that explains how to transpose woodwind instruments, an Alto sax is -9 and a Horn in F is -7. So when I need to transpose music for it, I transpose to a -2 correct?
I tried to transpose the horn part for the music that the sax has queues for I can't seem to get the right notes to appear along with the correct key.
The horn piece is in the key of G major. The sax is in the key of A major. Could someone give me some steps on how to do this properly? I cant seem to get it right.
I've also seen a post about transposing non C instruments but I'm unsure how to do this correctly.
