HOW TO READ TENOR CLEF
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- In this video, I talk about a rite of passage that every bassoon player must go through once they become kind of decent...reading the tenor clef.
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i know of 3 instruments that use tenor clef, but only 1 that uses alto clef. therefore, tenor clef is more important.
I mean, Bassoon can TECHNICALLY use alto clef but it's awful
tenor clef instruments:
-bassoon (sometimes)
-tenor trombone
-cello (sometimes)
-contrabass/double bass (sometimes)
-euphonium (sometimes)
-contrabassoon (rarely)
-bass trombone (rarely)
alto clef instruments:
-viola
-alto trombone
@proxima_centauri457 you see Alto clef sometimes on tenor trombone, but it's relatively uncommon
Euphonium/Baritone/tenor tuba sometimes uses tenor clef also. See the barfield euphonium concerto.
thats basically just a valved trombone@@staccatopeony
Very helpful and informative.
I’m a woodwind player, and an amateur orchestra composer and writing for /reading tenor clef has always been hard for me to do.
Bassoon player and tenor speaking. Though the tenor clef had first caused me grief, I can confidently say that reading this clef has improved. Granted, I may occasionally have the brain freeze when reading tenor clef, but all I have to do is imagine the note being written in bass clef and count up five notes.
And yes, I have seen the C clef in some choral music (especially in older publications). Back in the day, it wasn’t uncommon to see soprano, alto, and tenor parts written in C clef. I’ve sung tenor parts in tenor clef before; it’s a great way for the brain to get used to the clef.
So I love the tenor clef (and the alto clef, too). (-:
9:08 Oh no. That’s too accurate but for a different reason haha. Sometimes I switch clarinets in the middle of a piece because it’ll turn a technical part into an easier key but I’m horrible at transposing so I end up writing down all the notes like that haha.
Ah you have the B flat hack too
5:25 - literally me anytime I have to read music higher that a high f on my flute . . .
Way back when I played bassoon semi-regularly, we were just getting the internet. I had one piece of music that went into tenor clef for literally two measures. So I took the time to write the names of the notes on the page. That was the first and last time I thought about tenor clef.
Your videos are educational and entertaining! I played bassoon through college, but that was 10 years ago. Recently decided to start playing again and the Tenor Clef has always been rough on the few brain cells I still have😂
Well actually this is incorrect… this is called an alto clef. I know this because I play the viola and I read alto clef… I AM VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE GIVE ME ATTENDANCE
tenor clef has more height, alto clef does not. they look the same but are in different positions 😂
Thank you so much. You inspired me to restart bassoon
this guy is so funny and informative I love it :3
this is my sophomore year of high school and my band director told me I should learn bassoon even though I’ve played saxophone ever since 6th grade because he said I was a little bit different from the other kids and for me practicing scales helped me learn bass clef faster than anything else
Ledger lines, laughs in violin
Watching this right before I play professional-level music in a concert 🙌 (this is a cry for help)
There is another tenor clef used by vocal scores, the G clef with an 8 hung on the tail to show it is an octave lower.
Second year of playing bassoon.....I needed this
it is true that one must revert back to the primal stages of learning when introduced to an additional clef.
I myself play the trombone, and being used to the bass clef, found my self esteem drop when I struggled to play simple ditties in treble.
I needed this, just got my first tenor clef piece for college 🥹 I have it down slightly but not fully
Thank god I learned treble clef in front ensemble😂
this was actually really helpful and entertaining.
Very well done, sir!
As a trombonist and bassoonist, I agree that alto clef is the worst! (And tenor is really nice)
I just started learning the alto clef to use on the alto trombone and your tips have been pretty helpful. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to pick up!
so helpful, and also love this editing
As a cellist i just think of it as a fifth over the bass clef / a string over bass clef.
Could you do a video on how to properly do tonguing? That’s always something I’ve struggled to do a bassoon without it sound too airy.
Me who’s watching this 2 weeks after starting the basoon:
I am staunchly anti-tenor clef. We still have ledger lines with tenor and music majors need to learn piano. Therefore, folks already learn treble clef. I can read tenor clef but it drives me crazy when bassoon music switches clefs Every. Stinking. Beat. (Milde, I’m looking at you!). I refer to tenor as “Hades Clef”. It is stupid clef and I will die on that hill.
PS- I am also a flute player and ledger lines are not difficult to learn. Stravinsky in bass clef is no different than flute music.
Treble clef gang
The viola underground has you in its sights
The upside down clarinet image had me dying inside as a clarinetist.
My teacher taught me a trick to figure out notes on tenor faster.
Find the note if it were treble and go one up. D on treble, C on tenor wahoo
I dont.. use this trick because i cant think fast enough but its still something
Another tenor clef hack: Identify the note in bass clef and go up five notes (for example, G in the fourth space of the bass staff would be D in the same space of the tenor clef).
Sure enough, you’ll discover that reading tenor clef is like reading bass clef, only a fifth above. (-:
@DwainRichardson still cant think fast enough for these kinds of tips to help. I just gotta get good bc the ballet im gon be playing in 2 weeks has so much tenor clef
As an amateur bassoon player I've often wondered why the upper rage of the instrument was not better served by treble clef.
Reasons? Fewer leger lines and most people familiar with bass/treble clefs.
The tenor clef seems superfluous and does not really save too many upper leger lines.
I love the elegance of the way tenor works for high range trombone/bassoon etc., but for the record the bass clef Rite solo just looks like any violin concerto 🤣😜 (i totally understand y'all not wanting to do that tho!)
istg the part about people writing down the note names on top of the staff got me dead 💀💀💀
I have officially been called out. I specifically chose the Teleman sonata for my college audition because it didn't have Tenor clef and I didn't want to write the note names.😅
I may not play bass on but like it’s factual for all instruments
if you are fimilar with Bb transposed parts, pretend its treble clef Bb like a trumpet part but use he same key rules as concert pitch
6:10 literally me next year
8:28🤣
5:25 Violinists have to read and play notes above the treble clef all the time. No one went and invented a special clef for us, did they? Nope. They knew we could handle it on our own. Lol
just kidding...sort of 😄
hey bassondan I am in 5th grade and I play clarinet I am planing in middle school to play bassoon do you recommend anything?
I can read music fine. I only write out the notes when I don't have sheet music paper to apply the notes to or if I know a melody by heart and need to memorize the notes. Like flash cards.
for me as a tuba player i learned tenor clef just by playing a lot of trombone
I have the hack of being able to c bass (on a B-flat instrument) and B-flat treble.
As a flute and picc player. WHY DONT WE USE THE SOPRANO CLEF!!!!!! Literally sitting all rehearsal counting ledger lines sucks
As a bassoonist and former clarinet player, I make it easier by just going up one note from treble clef
Isn’t that supposed to be one note DOWN from treble clef? For example, if you saw a note in the fourth space of the tenor clef and wanted to know what the treble clef equivalent would be, you would count down, wouldn’t you?
In the example above, the note in the fourth space of the staff would be E in treble clef; D in tenor clef (one whole step down).
Am I missing something?
No, C is where D is on the treble clef, that's where the "backwards C's" meet for middle C on the Tenor clef sign@@DwainRichardson
@@davidcarroll9917 I am aware of middle C in the tenor clef. Your wording simply threw me off, which was why I was seeking clarification.
Euphonium player here: tenor clef is simple, because the notes are exactly the same as reading treble clef baritone parts.
I don’t know about everyone else but I pretend there is a treble clef then put it down one note and up an octave
i think it’s a bit silly that they were like “hmm yes alto saxophone let’s make it have the treble clef range” instead of calling an alto sax an alto sax because it’s in alto clef (same thing with alto clarinet)
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as a clarinet player, why am i watching this
As a violist I would not comment this
Whats the difference between alto and tenor clef btw?
Placement on the staff. It‘s a C clef that shows where C4 (old-fashioned Middle C) is. On the fourth line it‘s called tenor cliff because it‘s used for instruments that normally use bass (or F) clef and reduces the number of ledger lines needed for higher notes. On the third line, it is called alto clef and reduces the number of ledger lines needed below the staff. As far as I know, the viola is the only instrument that uses alto clef. Because it is a fifth lower than the violin, you would have a godawful number of ledger lines below the staff if you used treble cliff, but you wouldn‘t use enough of the staff if you used bass cleff..
@@michaelmedlinger6399 Trombone players read the alto clef, too (alto trombone players, that is). (-:
dosent trombone play bass cleff
Yes but sometimes it switches to tenor clef for higher notes
ok thanks
@@Drummerboy2564
im a beginner bassoonist and all i wanna say is that i have something against g
atleast i dont play clarinet anymore 😮💨
Ledger lines aren't that bad
Seems like tenor clef would be good for voice. Maybe that’s why it’s called tenor? Probably not.
As someone who sings tenor I agree that clef would be great for voice, however the treble clef lowered by an octave is only one note higher from the tenor clef and works just as well and makes it easier to compare the tenor voice to the alto and soprano voices in any song.
Tenors read tenor clef back in the day (up until the middle of the nineteenth century, I’m told). Some older choral publications have written soprano, alto, and tenor parts in C clef.
I have occasionally read tenor clef as a singer. It’s really easy. (-:
very good....but not in this life time!!! lol......that clef is just stupid!!! lol
Please … just … don't …. write below about G3 or A3 in tenor clef. There's a special place in hell for people who write in tenor clef using ledger lines _below_ the staff. Mozart did it once (for 2nd bassoon, when 1st bassoon was high), but he dead now.
The only thing I dislike about playing the bassoon is that horrible tenor clef!
your intro is 5 minutes long can you skip to the point
This actually helps a lot because I still struggle with it (I am that one person who writes the notes above it 🥲)
You're really funny