Answer by Leo Thompson for Key choice for brass instruments
My preference ,as a tuba player, I can't really read more than two sharps. Yet I can read down to all flats fairly easy. Its just much more common to see flats than sharps. This is of bably likely do...
View ArticleAnswer by Brian THOMAS for Key choice for brass instruments
Here's the test - ask a bunch of brass players to first sight-read a passage with n sharps in the key signature and then a different passage of similar difficulty with n flats in the key signature....
View ArticleAnswer by lauir for Key choice for brass instruments
Adding to the narrative in other answers,here is a chart that might help further explain why brass playerstend to prefer sheet music written in keys with flats.As is shown, written keys that exclude...
View ArticleAnswer by Gauthier for Key choice for brass instruments
All answers (and their up-voters) up till now fail to take into account this essential parameter: I am talking about playing key, not concert key. A comment from @jjmusicnotes made me think of this...
View ArticleAnswer by Laurence for Key choice for brass instruments
This seems much more of a worry to composers/arrangers than to brass players! OK, ask for a preference, we'll come up with one. But it's not important.There are two notes on trumpet that require all...
View ArticleAnswer by MattPutnam for Key choice for brass instruments
Most wind instruments transpose in a way that adds sharps. Horn and English horn are in F (add 1 sharp); trumpets, and half of the clarinets and saxes in Bb (add 2 sharps), and the other clarinets and...
View ArticleAnswer by user25045 for Key choice for brass instruments
I interpreted it as being the playing tonality, not the concert tonality.There is your mistake. As a comment about brass players, this statement is for the benefit of those not playing the instrument...
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I've been told several times that brass instruments prefer to play in keys with flats, rather than sharps. As a trumpet player myself, I cannot relate to this preference. E major is just as easy or...
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