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Beasax
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Posted: 2007-06-28 16:48 CEST | |
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I want to learn 'Capdown - Ska wars' and 'Reel big fish - I wont your girlfriend...', But I dont understand the way the people have wrote the nots down, Like E2 and B3 I get what the letters mean but wtf do the numbers mean? I'm a noob.. I know.. |
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Hi-iH
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Posted: 2007-06-29 18:45 CEST | |
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The numbers mean the octave. G2 is the first note of your b flat concert scale. So that means any number with a 1 after it is in the lowest octave, below that G. Every octave up, the number goes up, and every lower octave, it goes down. Here's a staff, I hope this helps. It's in treble clef. _______B3________ <-- A3 on that line _______G3________ <--F2 on the line _______E2________ <--- D2 on the line _______C2________ <--- B2 on the line _______A2________ <- G2 on that line _______F1________ <--- E1 on that line ...ect. Get it? This is for any Eb instrument, because the numbers would change according to the instrument. |
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Savage
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Posted: 2007-06-30 16:54 CEST | |
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Actually Hi-iH, I think you have your octaves mixed up a little there. It should be more like this: ledger F3 line E3 ledger D3 line C3 ledger B3 line A2 _____G2_____F2 _____E2_____D2 _____C2_____B2 _____A1_____G1 _____F1_____E1 ledger D1 line C1 ledger B1 line From what I understand this should hold true to all saxophones. |
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Hi-iH
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Posted: 2007-06-30 18:29 CEST | |
| The octaves start on B? I always figured it started on the concert Bb. My mistake. Thanks Savage. | ||
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Savage
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Posted: 2007-07-02 20:08 CEST | |
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Well it depends on the instrument. For trumpet it starts of F# because that is the lowest note a trumpet can play (without getting really technical and into pedal tones) for saxophones, it is actually a Bb that is the lowesr, unless you have a Bari with a low A. What you're thinking of is right, but that's something totally unrelated to tabs (but actually more musically correct). For tabs, 1 is just the lowest note you can play on the tabbed instrument. P.S. low A is awesome. |
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PhatBariSax
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Posted: 2007-10-09 05:26 CEST | |
Savage wrote:
Quoted for truth |
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