What is your fav clef or which do you find it easiest to read? +why?

i play flute so i prefer the treble clef + also, if i write the treble clef symbol backwards, it becomes the first letter of my name, Sara (in a fancy way lol)

but i like writing the alto clef during theory

Yes, indeed clef backwards is sara, not felc. How silly I must have been not to notice.

I also prefer the treble, but I like writing music for the alto clef.

definately treble, as i started off playing violin. but now i also play piano so bass clef comes in second:) doing g5 theory so i gotta use alto & tenor clefs (cleves?) as well *shivers* lol.

treble

but i can read the others obviously!

treble
no
alto
no
bass
no
tenor
um
I don't know...

i can only proplerly read treble, i havent been taought to read bass but my friend tryed to teach me as she plays piano and afew of my book has both clefs written at the front.

I find almost all clefs equally easy to read, as the octaves are on the same places in all clefs, it's very easy to read almost any clef without to much training.

But if a have to say which ones I like the most:

1. Treble
2. Bass
3. Tenor
4. Alto
5. Meso soprano
6. Soprano
7. Bariton

The reason I like treble the most, even as I'm a tuba player and are reading bass clef most of the time, is that it's the clef used for most transposing instruments, which many of the wind instruments are, so it's pretty obvious as I'm doubling on trumpet, alto horn, euphonium and sometimes even clarinet.

Then comes bass clefs as I'm obviously am a tuba player, then tenor because it's almost like reading treble when it's transposed in Bb, so when I'm playing trumpet I just think that the treble clef is an tenor clef with ottova(dunno if that's the english name for it, but anyway when it's one octav higher than written) then just add two flats. It actually works.

Then comes alto, but only because it's the second C clef in common use, otherwise not. Then comes meso soprano as it's like reading treble clef transposed in F at concert pitch, just add one flat.

Then last soprano and bariton as I haven't really found any real use of them and as they aren't in common use at the present time.


Please note that I'm Swedish and that I aren't 100% on the english musical terms, so please correct me if I'm wrong and please also tell me if my english explantions aren't clear enough. Thank you.

Am I the only person who loves the alto clef? I love it, I remember when I started the viola a few months ago thinking oh god, another celf to learn, I'll never manage this! But I love it now! Second is the treble as its the first clef I learnt as I started off with the violin and piano. The bass comes in third, as I don't really like it, I find it ###### to read even though I've played the piano for 9 years, and finally the tenor, which I find more or less easy to read, but I only started learning it today in theory!

i luv alto clef too! its great when u have 2 do grade 4 and 5 theory and u already know how 2 read it and every1 else is just learning it
jess

QUOTE (isabelsmells @ Jul 24 2004, 12:20 PM)

Am I the only person who loves the alto clef? I love it, I remember when I started the viola a few months ago thinking oh god, another celf to learn, I'll never manage this! But I love it now! Second is the treble as its the first clef I learnt as I started off with the violin and piano. The bass comes in third, as I don't really like it, I find it ###### to read even though I've played the piano for 9 years, and finally the tenor, which I find more or less easy to read, but I only started learning it today in theory!

No, as you'll see at the top of the thread, I love alto too - it's just that the post hadn't been approved when you made your post.

I like the treble clef best. It's the only one i can read properly, cos i play the violin, flute and recorder.

I too can only properly read treble clef, I have to count up/down from F on bass clef, simply because Ive never used it in anything but theory!

Although I did, when I was doing more theory, start to use the method that each bass note is on the line/space below where I'd explect it to be on the treble clef...

QUOTE (tamsin @ Jul 26 2004, 08:39 AM)

I too can only properly read treble clef, I have to count up/down from F on bass clef, simply because Ive never used it in anything but theory!

I have to do that as well. I've only just started learning to read bass clef because of theory and trying to teach myself piano!

For theory you only really need to be able to work out what the notes are... not necessary to be able to 'read' all the clefs.

lyric tenor clef

seriously, bass clef

When the i started learning to alto clef, i started to get it confused with the bass lol!

perhaps you should try reading 3 staves or even 4 at once as in organ scores

Tennor
Trble
Alto
Bass


I duno why.. they r just ma fave in that order.. silly rly..

Playing piano I'm used to two clefs, and quite often have to change from one to the other in either hand.

Treble in both hands is not too bad, but both in bass is hard!

Can't get to grips with alto - only know it from theory

actually...i've already get used to the organ score...so reading the scores for piano and singing is quite easy..

I prefer the treble clef.

Car Expert

treble clef for me:)

Treble but that is only because unless I try and play the piano, this is the only one I read

Has to be treble for me too, for much the same reasons as Nicki.

For piano,
right hand in treble,
left hand in bass.

Treble clef, followed by bass clef - mostly because of the fact the Horn is my principal instrument and you only get bass clef very late on or in 4th Horn parts (like the one I have to play at a concert today, which is complicated enough even without the low notes!). I don't mind bass clef much, though. Tenor clef comes after that, followed by alto (the order of preference in clefs actually seems to be based on the order I learnt them in...odd).

I like treble and bass clef, but I hate tenor and alto clef. I've been learning tenor clef for months now and I still have trouble reconising notes!

Ummm, treble clef I guess would be my No.1 option. Still getting to grips with tenor clef at the mo

definitly treble ... need to get the others learn properly for my theory exam

I only really use treble, but can kinda read bass (very slowly). I can also read alto when i put my mind to it.

I think that's pretty natural/understandable

For me it does depend which instrument I am playing. Treble is my most fluent - but I find it confusing when playing the viola! Mostly it's my favourite - or at least easiest. Followed by bass for most instruments, but alto on the viola. I can play bass clef transposed for flute without many problems off the top of my head, but I get confused if I try and play bass clef on the viola

Tenor I can work out, but having never had to use it, it isn't at all fluent.

Definately treble... because its easiest for me. Followed by bass... and alto. Which I am very very slow at reading.

Nice and simple treble clef!!!

Treble because it's the easiest. Not surprisingly when that's what you learn first in piano and what you play mostly in flute.