Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
I have added our newest unit: The Five-line Staff. This is the one of our biggest units, so you can expect to be tested on it. Make sure to check out the module I have added.
The Five-line Staff
You can also find it under the “Music” tab.
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
The five-line staff is where we write/read the actual notes we’re going to play. We use the musical alphabet – A B C D E F G A B C D E F G. On the staff, each line is one note and each space is one note. What note do you think this example is?
It’s a trick question, because that isn’t really a note. We have to add something called a clef to the start of the staff in order for the lines and spaces to represent a note. One of the most commonly used clefs is Treble Clef. Let’s put a clef on the staff and try to name that same note again.
Now that we have a Treble Clef on there, the middle line is a B. If you remember the order of the alphabet you can figure out every other note on the staff.
For example what letter comes after B in the alphabet?
C! So the space above the middle line would be the note C.
What note comes before B in the alphabet?
A! So the space below the middle line would be the note A.
(Remember A and G are next to each other in the musical alphabet)
Being able to read the five-line staff really comes down to experience and memorization. There are a couple of tricks you can use to memorize the lines and spaces…
Using those letters we can make a little saying:
Every Good Boy Does Fine
Here are a couple of other silly examples:
Every Guy’s Bird Deserves Feathers
Even Giraffes Bite Dirty Flamingos
Elmo’s Great Big Dinosaur Flies
Every Good Baby Deserves Fanta
I like to use a little rhyme to help memorize the spaces: All the notes in a space, F A C E face!
The more you practice reading these lines and spaces, the better you get at it and the faster you can read music. Here is a practice sheet you can print and fill out:
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