i don't know what the B flat concert scale is for alto saxophone please i want to know this so i can impress my band director oh, p.s. i'm in middle school 6th grade G scale, start with g then a b c d e f# g and back down. the reason tyler is incorrect is because he ignored the fact that you said 'concert b flat'. concert key is a way to speak to a band so that every instrument knows each individual note because most instruments are in different key. for example a concert b flat for alto sax is g while a trumpet or tenor sax which is a b flat instrument is c. opps i only looked at the couple i didn't look further down to see all your good answer if i did i would not have even picked a best thanks to all that helped or at leased tried. Report It
It is the G scale.
Say, Tyler - Bb is the note G on Alto Sax and other Eb instruments - do your homework! Well, the Bb major scale is Bb C D Eb F G A Bb.
And I don't know what Steve is talking about. If it was E minor, he'd be right, its relative major is indeed G major.
But... it's Bb major. Which means its relative minor is G minor, not major.
Er.. that sentence really does make sense... Bb Concert ,means the sheet music is written in B flat
(for the piano man)
.and Your instrument is an alto saxophone,then You have to transpose the sheet music 3 whole* steps, You may ,end up landing the G tonic.
so Your music sheet MUST be written in G.since your instrument is 3 halves step (in tune with the concert key-ed instruments) away from piano or any other strings
instruments. ,which are naturals concert key instmnt
*sorry my mistake........three half steps.
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load the actual music sheet into the note worthy composer press alto sax and it will transpose it automatically to the right scale. It is your G scale. Most everyone is right but they are all have really confusing explanations. Here's my attempt.
Eb Alto Saxophone or any other Eb instrument like an Eb clarinet or an Eb alto clarinet are named so because they are pitched in Eb. Meaning that a C scale on an Eb instrument would sound like an Eb scale on a concert pitched instrument like the piano. So any concert pitch must be transposed down a minor 3rd or up a major sixth to find the note for an Eb instrument. I know that probably doesn't make sense at you level yet, so your going to have to just try and memorize the difference between concert pitch and your notes at first. Eventually this will become second nature and if you continue in music you'll be able to identify all intervals and all the possible combination of notes that make them up. Here's a list to get you started.
Concert Pitch ------------Your Note
C -------------------------- A
C#/Db -------------------- A#/Bb
D -------------------------- B
D#/Eb -------------------- C
E -------------------------- C#/Db
F -------------------------- D
F#/Gb -------------------- D#/Eb
G -------------------------- E
G#/Ab -------------------- F
A -------------------------- F#/Gb
A#/Bb -------------------- G
B -------------------------- G#/Ab
Now someone brought up minor and major scales. That has nothing to do with transposing. That has to do with the key signatures and the spacing that is between each not of the scale.
Since you're in 6th grade, your teacher probably wants a Major scale. Your G major scale is G, A, B, C, D, E, F#, G
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