

Is drawn a little smaller than its normal size.Im playing bass guitar for 40yrs! started on old acoustic guitar at 7 self taught. Right before a bar line, that is to say right in front of theįirst note which is affected by the clef. In this case the new clef is drawn if possible The clef being used must be written at eachīeginning of a new staff and for all instruments (except You will often see a one line staff, representing the Instrument (orchestra snare drum, bass drum, triangle ), Notice that different symbols may be usedįor the note heads, like here a cross representing theĬymbal. Most of the time, you find at theīeginning of the score an explanation of the convention used, Practice, no clef is drawn or a special symbol is drawn, like Such a case, the use of a clef on the staff is not useful. Produce a sound, but this sound always remains the same. It is for example the case forĮach part of the drum kit can be struck to Some percussion instruments do not need to Note, here is for example the names and positions of notes Lines, you can deduce the names and pitches of all notes ofĪll clefs starting from this example. In music academies, the advanced students must learn toĪs notes are always named in the same orderĪnd can be written only on a line or in a space between For the 7 other clefs, the note names areĮach time different for each line of the staff. The only difference is that the notes are placed two Regarding the note names, it is the same as the F clef fourth Respectively called C clef first line, C clef second line, CĬlef third line and C clef fourth line, referring to the line The F note is placed on the third line, betweenĮach one, the C note is placed on the central line of theĬlef symbol, between the two curves. Placed on the fourth line of the staff, between the 2 dots of With the last clef which has the same symbol but which is Sometimes called G clef second line, to avoid confusing it The position of the G note on the second line. Of the clefs, each with the position of the C 3 note: Musical keyboard, you will never need them. Fortunately, the 5 otherĬlefs are used only for specific instruments. Possible to read the notes on a staff in 7 different ways and As there are 7 different names of notes, it is Pitched by moving to the right of the keyboard. It is the most natural, because notes are increasingly high The left hand and notes written in the higher staff by the right

Generally, notes written in the lower staff will be played by The previous example, but it is written using 2 staves: The two staves areĬonnected with a brace indicating that they must be read by the Two staves, with the bass and treble clefs. Harpsichord ) cover a rather vast extent and are written on The keyboard instruments (piano, organ, synthesizer, Written with the treble clef, which is better adapted to their The higher pitch instruments (flute, trumpet ) will be The bass clef, because the range of these instruments is mainly The scores of a bass guitar or a double bass will be written with That the notes are found as much as possible inside the staff. The instruments use the clef which is closest to their range, so The range of an instrument is the extent of notes it can play. Unfortunately makes the training of note reading a little moreĭifficult, because one needs to be able to read easily the notes Note in treble clef and an D note in bass clef. Line bears a different name according to the clef at theīeginning of the staff. It will give youĪn idea of the sound extension covered by these 4 octaves:īy observing the staves above, we see that a note placed on a Notice that the note order remains always the same, (called ledger lines) to write even lower or higher notes on the With the bass clef and the treble clef, you can already write

Here is the bass clef and the notes of octaves 1 and 2: The bass clef lets you write lower notes covering octaves 1Īnd 2. (the last C already belongs to octave 5): You can easily write the notes of octave 4 in treble clef With the C located in the third line space and bears numberĤ. The 8 notes here above cover the extent ofĪn octave. Having the same name and thus comprising 6 other notes Remember that an octave is an interval between two notes Octaves are numbered to differentiate amongst octaves. Because there is only 7 different note names, The number to the right of each note name Until now, weĪlways used the treble clef to locate the notes: Octaves numbering Īs previously explained, a clef is used asĪ reference mark to write notes on the staff.
