[LAU] bass line

[schoappied]

schoappied wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I guess it's not the gigfile but Rosegarden who reads the key 
different... duh ;)