How to transport a song to another tone

How to find the ideal tone for your voice

1. He looks for the most acute note of the song, most often at the choir or bridge and most serious, often at the first verse.
2. Sing the complete song with the recording or with the original accompaniment.
3. If you fight or shout at the sharp, we have to get down and if the bad thing gets lost or sounds without a body, we have to get up.
4. Try and move from one or two semitones and stay with the tone that both points come out comfortable.
5. Write down the final tone at your song maker so as to avoid repeating the search.

When a man sings a song recorded by a woman, or otherwise, sometimes it's enough to have an octave or up, but it's often too serious or acute and it's best to move a quarter or a fifth. If you don't know what your range is, the [voice type test]](/herramientas/tipo-de-voz) give you a first reference and a [singing] teacher](/clases/canto) He can get his repertoire right.

I have an eye with daily language: When someone wants to "put a tone down," they're theoretically two semitones but often means "a little bit." He wants how many semitones or scares and you'll avoid surprises at the essay.

Method 1: transport chords by semitone

Use the chromatic scale, the twelve notes separated by semitones. Between Me and Fa, and between Si and Do, there's no middlenote:

Do - Do) / Reg) - Reg) Reg) / My) - Mi - Fa) Fa) / Sol) - Sol)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) ())))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) ())))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) ())))))))))) () ()))))))))))) ())))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

1. It counts how many semitones are from the original to the new and how far.
2. He moves every chord that same quantity and preserves everything that comes after the letter: m, 7, Maj7, sus4.
3. If there's an indicated bass, move it as well: Do / Mi, put up two semitones, it's re / Fa).
4. He writes the changes according to the new tone: Fa mayor writes Si, No La, No La, My mayor, Sol, and No La.

Example by lowering two semitones, from Me to Ree: Mi - Do're - La - Si7 remains re - Sim - Sol - La7.

Method 2: transport with a figure of degrees

The experienced musicians have no semitones: they think about numbers. If you know that a song is I - V - vi - IV, you can play it in any tone with this table:

That method requires you to understand the function of each chord, and eventually allows you to transport at first glance. To complete the table in any tone, put up with [circle of quintas]](/blog/circulo-de-quintas-explicado).

How to transport a written melody

1. Define the exact range, for example a second bigger up, from Do to Ree.
2. He writes the new armor: Re mayor's with Fa and Do's.
3. Each note moves the same number of lines and spaces and for a second, a single step.
4. Check the loose alterations: they have to preserve their interval. A Fa in Do goes to Sol ″ at re, and a Si goes to Do natural with beacon.
5. It checks that the most acute and most serious note remains within the instrument or voice registry.

The typical error is to move only the letter without care for the quality of the interval: from Me to Fa there's a semitone and from re to me a tone. The right armor resolves most of these cases and for the rest, it goes through [what's a musical interval is]](/blog/que-es-un-intervalo-musical).

Guitar transport with apotre

The capotre, also called a mobile cabo or cebilla, puts itself onto a fringe and puts up a semitone the tuning of all the strings for each fringe. Thus you can play with the same forms of chords but in another tone:

The apotre only goes up. To get down, it changes forms (if you play with forms of Me and you need it at Mi), use forms of re with apotre at 1) or put all the half-tone strings down. The cebilla chords also help: same form, run a frast, up a semitone. Learn how to do it at how to make the cebilla on guitar..

Transpository instruments: why they read another note

In some instruments, the written note doesn't coincide with that that that sounds. They are referred to by the note that sounds as they read a Do. The actual sound is called "concert sound."

A useful example: if the piano plays at Si Mayor, the clarinet and the trumpet read at Do Mayor, the high saxo at Sun Mayor and the Row at Fa Mayor. Fletta traversa, oboe, violin, trombone and piano read the same as that sounds.

Common errors while transport

• To change the chord type: a transport Lam remains minor.
• To mix sustained and bemoles with the same tone.
• To choose the tone by the verse and discover in the choir that you do not reach.
• To put the capotre up and think that his tone goes down.
• Forget about the bottom of stick chords, as Do / Mi.
• In a band, do not clear up whether we speak about true sound or written note.

Transporting is a skill that trains itself as anything else. [Music theory]](/clases/teoria-musical) It's performed with real songs, first with chords and then with written melodies.

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