eli5: If a guitar and a flute player wanted to jam, why is the flute players note different than the guitarist?
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Woodwind and brass instruments often play in different ranges. They’re designed so that if you can play one of a specific instrument, you can play each variation. So the fingering to play a major scale is the same whether or not your instrument is in C, G, or any scale. So to prevent confusion, music written for those instruments are written as if they were playing a C instrument. It’s similar to how when you put a capo on a guitar, you still use the positions for the E, C, D, A, and G chords, and would write the chords that way, even though the chords are different. A flautists playing with a guitarist would probably have the easiest time playing on an E instrument since that’s the closest to what the guitar is in. Or you could use a capo to match the flute.
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