Identifying Notes on the Staff: 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. Same thing with our bass clef, remember this is our dot is on F, this is an F. If this is an F we are just going up, this is a G, note here is a G. This is an A, this is a B, we are just going up the alphabet A, B, C, D, E, F,G we start over, we go this way, we are walking down the alphabet. The letter below an F is an E, so this is the note E. The letter below an E is a D, so this is the D. Now, it is totally fine that when you are in the fourth grade, you learned that in treble clef that the letter lines are E, Every Good Boy Does Fine, that’s just great and the spaces are F, A, C, E. F A C E that is just great, but if you see that, that’s A, B, C, D, E, F, G and believe it or not that I have students who come to me who are classical pianists and stuff, they don’t actually understand that because they have just learned them as set positions and on the bass clef, G, B, D, F, A and then the spaces would be A, C, E, G and you in the fourth grade learned All Cows Eat Grass , All Cars Eat Gas okay where they are, up and down, on the staff tells us what note they are.