![]() The first letter and the 8th letter are the same because they are the same pitch in octaves. Notice that when we run out of the 7 letters, we repeat the first letter. Because the major scale in Western Music Theory only has 7 notes before notes start repeating, we only use 7 letters to label them: Each note has a name (represented by a letter of the alphabet) that helps the music reader understand what sound should come out of their instrument as well as understand the note’s relationship to other notes around it. The pitches used in Western Music Theory are labeled as NOTES. To learn more about the science of music, check out this page: Science of Music. All instruments (including singing voice) produce pitches which are tones of sound sustained at a consistent frequency and scientifically qualified by Hertz (vibrations per second). ![]() Now, we will look at the vertical dispersal of music which is referred to as PITCH. ![]() This will help when you are trying to play a piece of music and you need to quickly recall the note name.We spent our first lesson looking at the horizontal dispersal of music as a concept called RHYTHM (how sound and silence is measured out over time). Making flash cards of each note in the clef will help you be able to quickly name the notes. If you need help memorizing the note names, you can use flash cards. If you can commit these sentences to memory you will much more quickly be able to identify the bass clef notes. These two sentences are how almost all piano teachers start teaching bass clef notes to beginner students. If your note is on a space: Start with the A on the bottom space and then go up the spaces saying the sentence.If the note is on a line: Start with the G on the bottom line, and then go up the lines saying the phrase.The first letter in each word tells you the note name from the bottom line or space. A mnemonic phrase is a short sentence that helps you enforce things into the long-term memory. You can use what’s called a mnemonic phrase to help you remember. There’s a much quicker way of learning these notes for a beginner. The way I showed you above is a difficult way of learning bass clef notes. Make sure that when you are trying to find the bass clef notes that you keep this pattern in mind. In musical notation it goes from A through G. Once you get to G, you start over again at A. Remember that the musical alphabet is different from the normal alphabet. Take a look at the image and see how each note goes up and down the musical alphabet as you move from line to space. The image below shows the staff lines that the notes fall on. Each line and each space represents a different note. This means that it either smashed between two lines, or it has a line running through it.īefore we start looking at the names of the notes let’s take a look at what the bass clef looks like.īoth the bass and treble clef are made up of lines and spaces. Each clef has five lines and four spaces. To read the notes, you look at where the note falls on the staff, and this tells you the name of the note.Įach note has a place that it sits on the staff lines. The staff is the set of lines that the notes sit on. To read musical notes, you have to look at the lines and spaces on the staff. The notes of the bass clef are different from the notes in the treble clef. So, you want to get better at reading piano notes? The bass clef notes are not very difficult to learn once you learn this simple trick that almost all musicians use to help them memorize them.
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