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The AB Real book I ordered arrived on Saturday and low and behold there's pages missing! I couldn't belive it for the price of it you'd expect it to be perfect!
Does anyone know why the pieces in the C Treble Clef edition go down to a low Bb? What happens when your Flute's only a C.
It does state in some cases that you need to transpose the passages up an octave. This is also the case for the Bb Edition when playing Sop/Tenor Sax. I often have to transpose parts. It's a pain considering the book is so expensive.
I hope you're demanding another copy with all the pages!
I hope you're demanding another copy with all the pages!
QUOTE(notmusimum @ Jun 10 2007, 06:35 PM) 
Does anyone know why the pieces in the C Treble Clef edition go down to a low Bb? What happens when your Flute's only a C.
This happens a lot in jazz publications, and you are expected to transpose as said above. The Bob Mintzer etudes go down to G below the stave quite often, so whole passages have to be transposed for TG jazz exams.
Make sure you contact the supplier about the missing pages though!
Can't help you with the pages missing point - but agree it's irritating (to say the least).
In terms of the range, what the Real Book (and others like it) contain are termed "lead sheets" - they have the melody, chords and form (repeats, codas etc) for each tune in the specified key but they aren't written for any particular instrument, and they may well go out of range - remember that the tunes themselves may well have been written for a completely different instrument originally. Playing tenor sax I quite often find I need to take part or all of tunes up an octave either because the written notes are out of range or just because it spends too long at the botton of the instrument and is a bit low and dirge like. I suspect that any of the tunes specifically set for flute exams will be in a reasonable range, but those set for e.g. sax may well not be unless you switch octaves. It's something that you have to get used to when you play jazz.
In terms of the range, what the Real Book (and others like it) contain are termed "lead sheets" - they have the melody, chords and form (repeats, codas etc) for each tune in the specified key but they aren't written for any particular instrument, and they may well go out of range - remember that the tunes themselves may well have been written for a completely different instrument originally. Playing tenor sax I quite often find I need to take part or all of tunes up an octave either because the written notes are out of range or just because it spends too long at the botton of the instrument and is a bit low and dirge like. I suspect that any of the tunes specifically set for flute exams will be in a reasonable range, but those set for e.g. sax may well not be unless you switch octaves. It's something that you have to get used to when you play jazz.
QUOTE(TSax @ Jun 10 2007, 06:51 PM)
Can't help you with the pages missing point - but agree it's irritating (to say the least).
In terms of the range, what the Real Book (and others like it) contain are termed "lead sheets" - they have the melody, chords and form (repeats, codas etc) for each tune in the specified key but they aren't written for any particular instrument, and they may well go out of range - remember that the tunes themselves may well have been written for a completely different instrument originally. Playing tenor sax I quite often find I need to take part or all of tunes up an octave either because the written notes are out of range or just because it spends too long at the botton of the instrument and is a bit low and dirge like. I suspect that any of the tunes specifically set for flute exams will be in a reasonable range, but those set for e.g. sax may well not be unless you switch octaves. It's something that you have to get used to when you play jazz.
Thanks everyone! I have tried to tell her that might be the case as I read it in the blurb. It is one or more of the Grade 4 pieces that go out of range. It's a skill she's going to have to learn by the sounds of it.
QUOTE(notmusimum @ Jun 10 2007, 06:35 PM)
Does anyone know why the pieces in the C Treble Clef edition go down to a low Bb? What happens when your Flute's only a C.
It's not a book written for flautists, it's just a C Treble Clef book. As such, anyone with an instrument in C could read from it, so the range isn't limited to what a flute can play.
Transposing at the octave is pretty simple on the flute so I doubt it'll give your daughter too much trouble.
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