Staff & Clefs: Basic Essentials of Music Theory
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Staff & Clefs: Basic Essentials of Music Theory
Hey! I am Mark Black and I am here on expertvillage.com. I am here to talk to you about music theory and learning how to read music. So the first thing I am going to talk about here is these five lines are called the staff and the music is written on these five lines. Okay, so this is the staff, when we put a note on the staff we actually can’t tell what note that is, because there is room for 11 notes on the staff and there is a lot more notes than that. So we use a thing called a clef, this word C L E F to designate what group and notes we are talking about. And there are three clefs commonly used in music today, the ones that most people use are the treble clef, which is just this little dude here, and the bass clef and both of these clefs are actually letters, the treble clef is the letter G, you seen a cursive G like this and hundred years ago, it is really more like 500 years ago the way music was written was on a great big sheet of paper, which is the mass of lines; there was no grouping, you could not tell where anything was. And the writer will come along he will, just like he would cheat in music school, he would go along and write a G, and that is what this treble clef is. It is a G and what it is doing is designating the second line from the bottom as a G. It is putting a circle around the line that it wants to be a G just like that. So the treble clef is a G and our treble clef equals the letter G and our bass clef is the letter F, same thing got G, just here is the F. That’s what he would have done, not cheating to show me where to go, and then this bass clef is an F, like you see a cursor F like that, that is old fashioned too. So the bass clef is an F, and the dot of the bass clef is on the F line. So that is the beginning, since we have these clefs here, we kind of have our orientation.
Hey! I am Mark Black and I am here on expertvillage.com. I am here to talk to you about music theory and learning how to read music. So the first thing I am going to talk about here is these five lines are called the staff and the music is written on these five lines. Okay, so this is the staff, when we put a note on the staff we actually can’t tell what note that is, because there is room for 11 notes on the staff and there is a lot more notes than that. So we use a thing called a clef, this word C L E F to designate what group and notes we are talking about. And there are three clefs commonly used in music today, the ones that most people use are the treble clef, which is just this little dude here, and the bass clef and both of these clefs are actually letters, the treble clef is the letter G, you seen a cursive G like this and hundred years ago, it is really more like 500 years ago the way music was written was on a great big sheet of paper, which is the mass of lines; there was no grouping, you could not tell where anything was. And the writer will come along he will, just like he would cheat in music school, he would go along and write a G, and that is what this treble clef is. It is a G and what it is doing is designating the second line from the bottom as a G. It is putting a circle around the line that it wants to be a G just like that. So the treble clef is a G and our treble clef equals the letter G and our bass clef is the letter F, same thing got G, just here is the F. That’s what he would have done, not cheating to show me where to go, and then this bass clef is an F, like you see a cursor F like that, that is old fashioned too. So the bass clef is an F, and the dot of the bass clef is on the F line. So that is the beginning, since we have these clefs here, we kind of have our orientation.
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Expert: With a Master's Degree in Music, Mark W. Black, owner & founder of "Promethean Studios" Dallas, has taught hundreds of beginner and advanced students how to increase their music skills. Read More
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