B/C or E/F

[geopianoincanada]

I'm still taking things easy since having to halt piano practice back in August. I'm resuming things gradually not trying to strain the right arm.

I've been spending time with my music professor on learning written notation, rests, intervals, key signatures, transposition, all of that stuff. But one thing still keeps tripping me up and it's a really silly, even embarassing thing.

The interval between B and C, or between E and F, for some reason I keep holding onto an incorrect notion - even when I know better - that these are whole tone intervals and not half tone intervals on paper. It is so frustrating when I'm trying to transpose an exercise and I stumble on such a silly thing during a written exercise.

Has anyone else struggled with this and if so how did you resolve it?

Thanks,
geo

[themeandvariation]

If you are transposing from C  to another key signature, the key signature will already accommodate for the half steps.  The third and fourth degree of any major scale is always a half step, which is implicit in the key signature, etc.
Im surprised your teacher hasn't explained this clearly enough.

If there are accidentals (notes outside the key signature) in the original statement, these must be adjusted accordingly in the new key signature.

[geopianoincanada]

If you are transposing from C  to another key signature, the key signature will already accommodate for the half steps.  The third and fourth degree of any major scale is always a half step, which is implicit in the key signature, etc.
Im surprised your teacher hasn't explained this clearly enough.

If there are accidentals (notes outside the key signature) in the original statement, these must be adjusted accordingly in the new key signature.

This isn't the issue. My music teacher has explained it.

My issue is that I can't seem to rid myself of the notion that during a transposition wherever I come to a place only on paper where there is a B and C, or an E and F, I can't seem to remember that these are a semitone apart. It's not an issue when I'm playing on the piano, just when I'm facing the workbook by itself. After 7 years of piano lessons why do I still struggle with this, it makes me feel so pathetic.