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Re: Clefs

RA:- Thanks for this expansive review of BB playing in a few paragraphs.
The common BB method described was widely called: - "The Easy Way To Play B
rass Instruments" - as published by Wright & Round.
And I remember being told early on, by way of correction, "there is no easy
 way to play brass instruments".
Most players will soon need to learn to read from at least one more clef an
d to transpose if they wish to progress and become versatile.  E.g. to read
 directly from a four-part music book.  Otherwise there is a lot of written
 music transposition to do - at least that can be done on a computer these
days.
Here is another thought, why are bass trombone parts excluded from the "eas
y way"/treble clef, as practically all bass trombonists now use a Bflat and
 F++ instrument, albeit of larger bore than their colleagues on tenor tb?
Leger lines?
And conversely, I regret the passing of tenor clef in some BB trombone part
s, still widely found in orchestral tb music.  Despite being published by W
&R, W.Rimmer's book of 25 practice tunes "The Trombonist" was presented in
Tenor Clef.
Rgds, JG, Warks, UK
--- On Fri, 10/23/09, Richard Albury <richardia@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Graham=A0 for your feedback :).....
>=20
> What puzzled me for a very long time is why brass band
> music, excluding the Bass trombone,=A0 was written in the
> treble clef. When I first started brass band playing I had
> expected various instruments to be in bass, tenor as well as
> treble clef aka orchestra. It was a real education to me
> when Nigel informed me that musicians move up and down on
> various brass instrument and keeping all in the treble clef
> makes it so much more easy to do instead of learning a new
> clef. Having seen this happen in our own Band I fully
> understand the reasoning now. I have gone from 1st tenor
> horn to baritone, to repiano cornet, soprano(which proved
> too difficult to me-I believe that is a specialist
> instrument), solo and finally 2nd cornet in 25 years of
> brass band work. It was Nigel that told me the logic of
> staying in the same clef.
>=20
> Anyway my friend I thank you for your response and maybe
> discuss other aspects of brass band playing and music :-)
>=20
> Richard=A0 South Australia
> ex Marion City Band=0A=0A=0A
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