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i'm going to try retuning my bass down to match my bari, bass is a 5 string so i may get it there. think it's a full tone down. or is it up?
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The Bari's low A is a concert C, so you'd be tuning the B string up a semi-tone. You don't need drop tuning. Unless you fancy scordatura tuning, I'd leave it at Bi'm going to try retuning my bass down to match my bari, bass is a 5 string so i may get it there. think it's a full tone down. or is it up?
Yes it does, bass music is written an octave higher than it sounds, but I'm pretty sure @Vetinari is aware that. I can't imagine he was intending to tune up an octave - which is probably not possible without finding some very different strings.Um. Doesn't a low-A bari only go down to C2, like a cello? So a 5-string bass actually gets an octave and a semitone lower, to B0?
That'd make it do its own repeats! Fair comment @tenorviol, just wanted to be sure we were all on the same page. It was ages before I realised a bass is technically a transposing instrument...And making the neck look like a boomerang
Yep, so's the piccolo - it sounds an octave higher than writtenThat'd make it do its own repeats! Fair comment @tenorviol, just wanted to be sure we were all on the same page. It was ages before I realised a bass is technically a transposing instrument...
I've had one online sax lesson, for various reasons there's been a gap. I should be having on online bass lesson on Wednesday.I had my first online lesson this week, was really pleased.
I can let you have the details, he might teach bass guitar too
Jx
You're now in Bminor rather than Dminor. The notes are as per the key signature so the Bflats will be B naturals. With accidentals, you have to do what they say on the tin. So, if for example in the original there was an F#, because you've already got an F# you have to add a semi-tone to it and make it Fx i.e. F double sharp. Equally, more likely that there was a B natural marked as an accidental, that will need to become a B#...Just written bassus line out in treble clef and added 3 #. What happens all the B flats and accidentals?
We drove to Salisbury Cathedral to hear that - it was magical.The one I regret missing was the Jan Garbarek tour performing Officium.
The pic is a phone pic I took a couple of winters ago - I had been to a concert at the Philharmonic Hall and my car was parked up by the cathedral, so this was as I was walking back to the car.
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