Sheet Music Playback App

[Plateaued Again]

Hello
I'm looking for a notation/playback app that I can tell that I'm playing a Bb instrument and it will play the concert pitch of the note I put on the score. I'm currently using Guitar-Pro to do this but when I tell it that this track is a Tenor Sax (ex. Song in F I'm playing the tenor in G) it says "ok gotcha we know that one" and plays that note in the in the main song scale (Concert F). My current workaround is to create 2 tracks with one for the TSax and one in the concert pitch and then mute the Sax track so I can play along with it to work on the timing and intonation. It would be nice to be able to only have to input one track and have it playing the correct pitch (for my purpose).

I also have Finale, Dorico5 and Musescore and they all do the same thing. I tell it I'm playing a Tenor Sax (Bb) but it plays the note from the score in concert pitch.

Ideas?

Thanks

 

[wakyct]

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. Wouldn't you want the app to play the note in concert pitch regardless of what transposition you've applied? Or are you saying the app plays the note as written on the staff, as if that was concert pitch, but you're looking at a transposed score?

In desktop Musescore, if I open a score in concert pitch and then apply a transposition, it still plays the concert pitch of the original score regardless of what the transposed note is on the page -- I think this is what you would want. If you want to see the concert pitch as written temporarily, you can click the 'Concert Pitch' checkbox, but in practice it doesn't seem like you'd need to do that.

 

[atwl77]

I think you have it confused what a transposing instrument is. When you play a C on tenor, it sounds like a B♭. Likewise, when you play an G on tenor, it sounds like an F. In other words, your tenor is transposed two semitones down.

So in order to play your tenor with other instruments, the tenor score needs to be transposed up by two semitones. In a score in F major, for example, where all other instruments are playing in the scale of F, you would transpose the tenor's part up to G so that when you play a G on tenor, it will sound like an F, thus remaining in the same scale as the rest of the instruments.

And so all the application programs and apps you're talking about are all working as is -- showing you the correct instrument transposition, while playing the original concert pitch.

 

[Plateaued Again]

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. Wouldn't you want the app to play the note in concert pitch regardless of what transposition you've applied? Or are you saying the app plays the note as written on the staff, as if that was concert pitch, but you're looking at a transposed score?

In desktop Musescore, if I open a score in concert pitch and then apply a transposition, it still plays the concert pitch of the original score regardless of what the transposed note is on the page -- I think this is what you would want. If you want to see the concert pitch as written temporarily, you can click the 'Concert Pitch' checkbox, but in practice it doesn't seem like you'd need to do that.

Thanks that did the trick. I also found some of the uploaded scores that I assume were created that way because they play the correct pitch for my horn.