How to Read Clefs in Music

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Hi! I’m Katie and I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com to talk about being aware of clefs. So the very first thing to be aware of when you’re about to read a piece of music are clefs and here we’re looking at a piece of piano music where we see both the treble clef and the bass clef. The bass clef contains lower notes so the lower you are on this staff, that’s what these lines are called, the lower the note, as you go higher the notes get higher, so you can see notes on the bass clef are lower notes and notes on the treble clef are higher notes. Here you see a single line of music written in the bass clef, it’s important to notice that this is the bass clef and not the treble clef because the actual name of the note will be different depending on where it is on the bass clef vs. the treble clef. So for example this very top space note on a bass clef is a G, if this were a treble clef instead this note would be an E, so you have to know what clef you are in to know what note you’re seeing. Also the bass clef and the treble clef are related because they show where these notes are situated for example on a keyboard, so here in the bass clef this is a G, on a treble clef this is the exact same note this is the exact same G but you see that where the G is very high up on the bass clef, it’s very low on the treble clef because it’s a spectrum going up and that’s why clefs are important.

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