The Bass Clef & Ledger Lines (Writing Practical)

How to Read Music for Guitar Learning The Notes of The Stave
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Now here we want to focus mostly on the notes on the bass clef and also the notes on the ledger lines above and below the treble clef. But it's a good idea just to know how the grand stave works as well. So that's what we're going to do first. The grand stave, as you know, is made up of the treble clef and the bass clef together, I'm just going to write in the treble clef. And the bass clef starts on the fourth line of the stave, curves up to the top line, and then back down to the second line of the stave, making kind of like an ear shape. And then you want to have a dot above and below the fourth line as well.

Now these two staves need to be joined with a line and also a brace. Now we have what's known as the grand stave, or the great staff Now as you notice these two dots above and below the fourth line signify that this line represents the letter F note F, so I'm just going to fill that in. And from there, we can fill in all the other notes on the stave as well. So the space above that is G. And we have a beyond the space above the state, and then you reach middle C, which lies in between the treble and the bass clef and it's called middle C for that reason, and a lot of people call this middle C as well because it's roughly in the middle of the piano keyboard. We want we can carry on in full the notes on the treble clef.

So the nn F, A, C, E. g, above the stave and the notes on the lines as well. To fill in the other notes on the bass clef, we can just work backwards from F. So we go to the space below. That's the note E, D, C, B, A, G. And of course, if under the state. Now a really handy trick just to get the notes quickly on the bass clef is to realize that it's the same notes as the treble clef except that every space in line has been shifted down one. So the G that was on the on the space above the treble clef, is now on the fourth space within the bass clef. The top line of the treble clef was F. that f is now on the fourth line of the bass clef.

C was on the third space of the treble clef. It's now on the second space of the of the bass clef. So if you know all the notes on the treble clef, then it's really quick and easy to find the notes on the bass clef Well, now what we're more interested in is the notes on the ledger lines because that's really what we're going to be doing as guitar players, the notes on the ledger lines above and below the state. So we're just going to be making use of the treble clef. And I'm going to just start by filling in the spaces on the treble clef. So that's the under the stave, face.

G above the stave, and then I'm going to fill in the lines of this of the stage, so that's Every Good Boy does fine. Okay, now finding the notes on the ledger lines is really simple. So the line beneath D would be C. So that's middle C. Space beneath that would be B. We have a, G, F and E under the third ledger line. Now we're going to do the same with the spaces above the treble clef, lines and spaces. So the line above g would be a space above that would be B and C, D, E, and F is the space above the third ledger line above the state.

So these are all the notes on the state that we as guitar players would use. A good thing to realize is that f a c, e would be on the spaces within the state, but on the lines above and below the state so the ledger lines below The stave, if AC. And above the state, if AC. It's the opposite with every good boy does fine. Within the states, that acronym is on the lines. But above and below the cliff, they are on the state it is on the spaces.

So every good boy does fine, and every good boy does fine. Now let's just write down the octaves of a few notes here, we're going to start with C. So C is obviously middle C. We can that's our lowest c that we have available to us. And then the next C from there would be on the third space, the stave, and then the highest c would be on the second big line above the state. So that's all C. Now let's look at the load IE. The first e can be found under the third ledger line, below the stave. Next one can be found on the first line of the state.

Then we have an E on the fourth space of the state. And the last one can be found on the third ledger line above the stave. Those are all the node E. Now let's do the same but with F sharp. So F sharp is found on the third ledger line below the state. So we're going to draw a note plus a shops on the next F is on the first space of the state, F sharp rather than on the F. The next one can be found on the top line of the stave. And the highest one can be found above the third ledger line above the stave.

So these are all the note F sharp Lastly, let's just check out some octaves of the node B flat. So our lowest B flat is under middle C. The next one is on the third line of the stave. And the last one is above the first ledger line above the stave.

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