Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Where can i find sheet music for the 12 major scales for the bass clarinet?

i need to memorize the 12 major scales for district auditions and concert band auditions i used to have them all memorized but i can't find the sheet music that had all the octaves for each of the scales. does anyone know where i can find them? oh i play bass clarinet!!! Clarinets Rock!!!Where can i find sheet music for the 12 major scales for the bass clarinet?
There's a more effective way to do this than trying to memorize each note of each scale as if they're somehow unrelated. Rote memorization of scales just doesn't work.





Try this method and see if you don't go ';oh! now I get it'; - but give it a try, it only looks hard - it's really the easier way.





Every scale represents a specific key signature. That's really all a scale is - the notes within a key signature. There are 15 major key signatures. You probably already have a few memorized. For example, no sharps/no flats = C major. 1 flat = F major. 2 flats = Bb major. etc...





Now, to play a scale, if you know all of the key signatures, all you have to do is play each step in the key signature.





If you know that F major has 1 flat (Bb) then playing F G A Bb C D E F is the F major scale. It's the same scale in each octave too.





So, get some flash cards with each key signature on them and a buddy and just memorize every key signature. 1 sharp (F#) = G major. G major scale = G A B C D E F# G





Remember to learn to transpose major scales from concert pitch scale too. If we want F concert and you play bass clarinet then you'll play G Major (just go up 2 half steps (F-F# then F#-G) or 1 whole step from whatever concert scale is called for.)





I promise, this is really the easy way to learn them all and it works. Rote memorization just doesn't work.





You can find all of the key signatures here - http://www.design-bysarah.co.uk/oulinks/鈥?/a>





Notice that there are really 15 of them but that 3 are the same, just spelled differently. It helps to learn all 15.

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