How's reading music going for you?

[Rich.B]

Thanks guys, super insightful and beginning to get through my thick skull.

@howard

The bass guitar actually plays an octave lower than the bass clef. For convenience, so that we don’t need to stare at funky ledger lines all the time and guess what note they are, bass music is notated transposed up one octave so it (mostly) fits on the bass clef.

So pretty much consider it the same as a clef on piano featuring the “8vb” notation to tell them to play an octave lower? If so any reason this isn’t routinely noted on sheet music for bassists - is it just a case of “they should know”.

And if you are playing a piece predominately higher up the neck (say 15th fret on) might you see both a “normal” bass clef and treble clef used (or “8va” and ledger lines)?