How To Transpose Music
* *note some intervals will change depending on your key signature**
Elizabeth Voights
Supplies
-Sheet Music
-Pencil
-Patience
-Blank Staff Sheet Music

What is music transposing?
Music transposing is take a piece of sheet music for one instrument and changing and manipulating it to fit another instrument key.

Why is transposing so useful?
Music transposing helps music students understand how notes sound different for different instruments. Having this skill helps musicians prepare for future jobs like conducting and directing. This skill also builds other skills in music theory.

Step 1: Step 1

Preperations
-Decide which piece of sheet music you would like to transpose
ex) First line of “Ode to Joy” by Ludwig Van Beethoven

-Figure out what instrument the music was written for
ex) Piano

-Decide which instrument you would like to transpose the instrument to.
ex) Alto Saxophone

-Now that you know which instrument you would like to transpose the music for figure out what keys each instrument is in.

-Find a transposing chart that will help guide your actions. I found mine at http://www.lotusmusic.com/lm_transposing.html

-Find the interval between the two notes you want to transpose (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_%28music%29 ) might help you with this step

Step 2: Step 2

-Begin with your first note in this example it is E
-Go onto http://www.lotusmusic.com/lm_transposing.htm and find the area that starts by saying "Once you have determined"
-Using that information to guide you to find the note equivalent to what you started with begin to transpose your music

Step 3: Step 3

Keep using your chart don't get angry or frustrated use the chart for each note and transpose your music. You will find that after awhile it get's easier. Each chart follows a pattern you may find it easier to transpose if you can find that pattern and stick to it.

Step 4: Step 4

Sight Transposition:
What is it? Sight transposition is the skill used by most experienced musicians to be able to read off other instrumentalists music while still playing their own instrument. This skill is important to develop because you will not always have the time to pull out a transposing chart and take time to transpose the music you are looking at.

For people who want to be more advanced here a few tips to get you going on sight transposition:
-Start with small easy familiar songs
-Start with a chart and slowly start memorizing it and stop using it
-Start by transposing to instruments you play such as; from piano to clarinet
-Find a strategy that works for you such as; transposing by steps, intervals, or by moving the key signature in your head.

Step 5: Refrences

-http://www.123rf.com/clipart-vector/conductor.html'
-http://www.lotusmusic.com/lm_transposing.html
-http://mysite.verizon.net/res8o1o8/transposing%20chart.htm
- www.shanemcdonald.org/music/easy-music-transposer.html
-http://www.ehow.com/how_2046065_transpose-music.html
- http://www.shanemcdonald.org/music/how-to-transpose.html
-www.creativecommons.org
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_(music)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_saxophone
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_clarinet
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_(music)
-http://www.shanemcdonald.org/music/easy-music-transposer.html
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitone
- http://aficionada.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Transpose-Music-Part-II
-http://aficionada.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Transpose-Music-Part-I
- http://cnx.org/content/m10672/latest/
- http://www.teoria.com/articulos/transposition/0?1.htm
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposing_instrument-=0-0-=09-=09-090-090909-09909090-090=-09=-0-=006,
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposing_instrument#Reasons_for_transposing
-http://bandnotes.info/tidbits/scales/transposition.htm
-http://www.lotusmusic.com/lm_transposing.html
- http://cnx.org/content/m10668/latest/