how do i transpose my music to a trumpets music or vise-versa?
Answer Hello Maddie! Most trumpets are in Bb, and sound a major second lower than the notes written in their music, while flutes are concert instruments pitched in C. That’s to say that if there is a C written in a trumpet player’s part, the note they produce if they play that written note is actually a Bb concert. While they are reading and fingering a “C,” an electronic tuner would read the pitch as a Bb. Flutes, on the other hand, are non-transposing, so if you see a written “C” and finger that note, an electronic tuner would pick up a C. As such, to take a flute part and make it playable by a trumpet player, you would need to transpose it up a major second (or a full step, if you prefer to think of it that way). If the flute part was in D Major, the trumpet part should be in E Major. If the first note in the flute part is an A natural, then the transposed trumpet part would start on a B natural. To take a trumpet part and make it playable on flute, you would do just the opposite. T
