Understanding 8va and 8vb in Music

Now, up here I have a triple clef. Down here, I have a percussion clef. We have this piece of music. Sometimes you might see this and that gets a little bit annoying but a little bit higher like what you have up here. That gets annoying. Read all these measure lines gets to be a lot. We all know that this over here is E. Now if I were to look up this over here is my A and this over here is my C note. If I were to write this out as that means measure lines it gets to be a lot, I just fixed that though that is when I would used 8va and 8vb. This note here is C, so I am going to write C, E, D, F, G, F. Now what the 8va and 8vb does is that it tells the musician play an octave higher than this. So before what I had is this only at top. I can bring those notes down an octave and just simply write 8va through out and that is it. This is a lot more legible to me and to everyone else of how to play this. Then if I were to bring this 8va, which simply means to play an octave higher and 8bv means lower. 8v is for an octave there is eight notes until the next octave C, D, E, F, G, B, C – 7, 8 and b means base, a is alto. So 8va is higher, 8vb base is lower. If I were to play this lower than this, instead I am taking the whole piece and then throwing every note down an octave I would simply just put 8vb, and that is how easy it is, that simple that is what those two notes mean 8va and 8vb, so if you do not know then now you know.

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