Avoid 'do your own research' responses, such as bluntly telling OP to Google the answer or to figure it out for themselves. Dismissive or blatantly unhelpful top-level comments will be removed. Any critiques should be focused on ideas, never on individual users.Ģ. Disagreements and discussion are great, but hostility, insults, and so on aren't. Please use the 'report' button for posts violating the rules!ġ. The above-listed resources are a thousand times more reliable! Subreddit rules Later in this article we will look at transposing between different saxophones.Please know that Wikipedia is especially bad for music theory topics. Baritone – Eb – C = Up a major 13 th to written pitch.Tenor Bb – C = Up a Major 9 th to written pitch.Alto – Eb = up a major 6 th to written pitch.Soprano – Bb – up a major 2 nd to written pitch.The other saxophones all have their own keys and will also require transposing to play together. If you want to play a piece written for the C flute on the alto sax, you have to transpose it up a major 6th to make it sound at the same pitch level. This means that when the alto sax plays a C on the staff, we hear the Eb below this, or major 6th below. The Alto sax is a transposing instrument in the key of E flat. Transposing means changing the pitch of a piece of music to make it fit the range or key of another instrument. One of the challenges of playing the alto sax is transposing the music written for other instruments.

How to transpose Alto Sax to French Horn.How to transpose alto sax to baritone sax.How to transpose alto sax to soprano sax.How to transpose from Alto Sax to Guitar.How to transpose from Alto Sax to Flute.

A major scale transposed to e flat