[LAU] bass line

[schoappied]

Brett McCoy wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:17 PM, schoappied <schoappied at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>  I want to make a write a bass part in a note editor eg rosegarden, nted
>>  or mscore.
>>
>>  1. Is the bass player playing 2 octaves lower then the guitar player?
>>  2. How do you put this on score? Just put the low notes with a normal
>>  key or do you change the key or something?
>>  3. Which app can handle this well and how? (I know Rosegarden can do it,
>>  by ctrl down).
>>     
>
> Bass guitar parts are usually written on the bass clef, just like the
> left hand part of a piano score, and should be in the same key as the
> guitar part (no transposing needed). Bass guitar, like guitar, sounds
> an octave lower than written. The 4th string on the bass (low E) is
> two octaves below the low E (6th string) on a guitar.
>
>   
Thanks.
But for recording with rosegarden and linuxsampler.... does the bass 
*.gig file also sounds a octave lower than written?

I'll try it, comments are welcome.

Dirk