Transposed my keyboard - is this cheating?

[UncleClark]

I like to pick out Tenor sax parts using a cheap keyboard instead of the sax itself. Normally I figure the parts on the keyboard but then have to transpose them when writing the parts onto sheets for my Tenor sax.

So yesterday I figured out I can transpose the keyboard any number of semitones, so I set it to -2 so now "C" on the keyboard comes out the speaker as Bb.

Now I can copy directly from the keyboard to the sheets :)

[Doghouse Riley]

I mentioned this yesterday on another thread. I've recorded a boat-load of "backing tracks" on my Yamaha PSR1000 and stuck 'em on several floppy's. When "busking"* along with 'em on my tenor, most of them I transpose up 2 semitones and on Alto 7. Then the same fingering can be used for each tune. OK you should be able to play a tune in any key, mainly because singers can't sing in more than a few and their "favorite" will be an awkward one for an amateur to use. But I don't play with anyone who sings. Although come to think of it I can play many of 'em without transposing, often because I've forgotten to alter the keyboard setting and I'm too thick to notice that I've not.
*You name a "Sinatra" type jazz standard, I can play it. At my level, I just can't be bothered to learn to read music, when I could be playing a tune instead. For the keyboard, I just read the chord names off the sheet music and "wing" the right hand. No one seems to notice.

[timobrien]

There is no such thing as "cheating".

There is only working hard or working smart....

;-)