Musical Notes and Clefs
February 14th, 2010 | Author: guitarman
Learning how to read music is a important step towards being able to play, sing or even write a song. It will cater skills you need for a basic read. While a lot of people believe music is hard to read, it’s in reality the easiest written language there is.
When you get the basics of reading music the rewards remain with you for a lifetime. Whether it’s classical, rock, hip hop, techno, reggae, ambient, country, folk, any other kind of music, it is written and set up in the same way throughout most of the world.
Before you commence, get your hands on some beginner-level sheet of music with a copy of a song you like. Next, find yourself an musical instrument. Although you do not need one to read music, never the less an musical instrument can be priceless when it comes to understanding the sound of a note and how connects to what appears on paper. Music theory is by and large universal, irrespective of what musical instrument you are playing.
Names of musical notes and clefs
There are seven note names, in standard contemporary music which correspond with the first seven letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F and G. If you play or sing the notes in order, commencing with A, you would resume with “A” after “G,” only at a higher pitch.
For example: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C and so on. Eight notes in a row (in this case, from “A” to “A”) are called an octave. Since notes can range in tone from a deep bass (very low) to a high-pitched soprano, they are divided in written music by two different clefs: treble and bass.
As a general rule, notes that follow a treble clef range from mid-level up to very high in tone. Notes that follow a bass clef range from mid-level down to the lowest of tones.
Each clef has a stave. Staves are made up of five lines and four spaces. Each line and space maps where a specific note will fall.
The treble stave. Commencing from bottom to top, one note for each line, the lines on the treble stave read: E, G, B, D, F. A familiar way of recalling this is to say “Every Good Boy Does Fitness” The spaces in between the lines follow the same order, and the notes are F, A, C, E, respectively.
The bass stave. Commencing from bottom to top, the bass stave is: A, C, E, G. Her we have one note for each space rather than each line. A popular way to recall this is to say or “All Cows Eat Grass.” The matching lines from bottom to top are G, B, D, F, A, respectively.
In most written music, the treble and bass staves appear at the same time on the page, with the treble stave preceding the bass stave, separated by an open space. This is because the treble and bass lines are played at the same time but written individually. For example, on a keyboard, the bass line is played with the left hand and the treble is played with the right.
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