Bass Clef Quiz

[stingrayPete1977]

Just got my best ever score!
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Give it a go if you have not before but be warned its [i]very[/i] addictive!

[url="http://www.studybass.com/tools/bass-clef-notes/"]http://www.studybass.com/tools/bass-clef-notes/[/url]

[discreet]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1358085120' post='1932746']
...its [i]very[/i] addictive![/quote]

Not if you can't read music, it isn't.

[stingrayPete1977]

You say that but this is what got me started 2 years ago!

[Zenitram]

That is a great learning tool. I've learnt more (or memorised more) in the past five minutes than I have in the past two weeks of trying (not very hard, if at all) to remember which notes go where.

[stingrayPete1977]

Thats it even after a couple of years since I started to try and read properly (I am still very much a novice) I return to this tool just to sharpen up the note positions on the staff in my head, used to take me ages to get a decent score, this time I got wizard on my first go and all the others until the .89 came out of the bag, I never dropped even to master for one but it did take about 10 goes to get the great wizard though which is less than 1 second btw.

Have fun, next thing you know you are onto note durations then ties and slurs, triplets and 16th triplets and rests!

Edited January 13, 2013 by stingrayPete1977

[Chrismanbass]

wow considering i have to sight read on pretty much a weekly basis (shows and big bands)

my reading sucks time for a bit of work i think

good tool though thanks for the heads up

Edited January 13, 2013 by Chrismanbass

[steve-bbb]

bass clef wizard 1.3 seconds

tremble with fear mortals

[stingrayPete1977]

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1358092059' post='1932920']
bass clef wizard 1.3 seconds

tremble with fear mortals
[/quote]

What were you doing making a brew between notes?

[charic]

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[charic]

Snap

[stingrayPete1977]

Nice! how long did it take you?

[charic]

Im unsure, its a few years old

[stingrayPete1977]

Naughty

[SteveO]

Fully expected to blow you all away with my awesomeness, but apparently I'm only a Bass Clef Beginner despite reading music for 30+ years. My score would probably improve if i could remember where the letters are on the keyboard

I blame old age.

[stingrayPete1977]

I use a mouse as I cant type well enough to find the letters/notes, I could half it if I knew where the letters where to hand but thats a whole new skill to spend years on

I keep thinking to try it on my Galaxy Tab to see if it works by tapping the notes?

[ezbass]

Ooh this looks like fun, thanks for posting. Drummer rating here I come

EDIT. Bugger doesn't work on the iPad I'll have to fire up the big boy.

Edited January 13, 2013 by ezbass

[muttley]

No matter how fast I click I can't get beyond Wizard level .

[stingrayPete1977]

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1358098755' post='1933103']
Ooh this looks like fun, thanks for posting. Drummer rating here I come

EDIT. Bugger doesn't work on the iPad I'll have to fire up the big boy.
[/quote] Yes I just tried it on Tablet does not work as it needs flash player 7
[quote name='muttley' timestamp='1358099158' post='1933113']
No matter how fast I click I can't get beyond Wizard level .
[/quote] Try and try again, you dont need to work or sleep or eat or any of that stuff just keep at it

[Telebass]

First shot: 3.65 seconds for Bass Clef Intermediate. Right off the cuff, as a non-reader in any normal sense, I'm pleased with that!

[MrTaff]

4th go, probably could do better with practice but as somebody who doesn't read music that often, I'm happy with that score.

[stingrayPete1977]

Welcome to the great wizard club MrTaff

[lowdowner]

master - but then I've been reading treble clef all day and the switch is doing my head in!

honestly, bit respect to pianists to be able to read both simultaneously, it takes me ages to 're-adjust'!

[muttley]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1358099474' post='1933126']
Yes I just tried it on Tablet does not work as it needs flash player 7
Try and try again, you dont need to work or sleep or eat or any of that stuff just keep at it
[/quote]

I did a similar test a while ago for treble clef. My daughter (who was probably 11 at the time) totally wiped the floor with me. I've been reading treble clef since I was 10 and achieved grade 8 on violin so you could say I know my way around it. I guess I'll just never be that quick .

[stingrayPete1977]

The typing holds me back, that's my excuse!

[lowdowner]

[quote name='muttley' timestamp='1358104266' post='1933223']
I did a similar test a while ago for treble clef. My daughter (who was probably 11 at the time) totally wiped the floor with me. I've been reading treble clef since I was 10 and achieved grade 8 on violin so you could say I know my way around it. I guess I'll just never be that quick .
[/quote]

I think the more you play music from scores the less you 'name' notes in your head as you read them - instead you remember how to play a note on the instrument from where the dot is on the score with little processing in between to think about what the name of the note is. When you see a 'D' you play a 'D' but you don't think 'oh, that's a D'... Sure, given a second or two you can name it, but because you don't often have to do that, you just don't do it as quickly as someone learning the names of notes.