Ledger Lines: Basic Essentials of Music Theory
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Ledger Lines: 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. Now, we talked about the staff only holding 11 notes while obviously on most instruments, almost any instruments we need more notes than that. We got to extend the staff, we do that with little lines called ledger lines and that's these little lines like this and they go up and they go down, above and below the staff. You should just extend the staff up and down. So, here is our treble clef, this is a G. We need a note that is lower than this. So we are going down G, this is an F, this is an E, this a D, this would be a C, we are just going down the alphabet, right? The letter below a C is a B and the letter below a B is an A. So this note on the second ledger line just as an example is an A, the note A and if you are going lower just the very next down note that is a G. It is just the next letter down.
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. Now, we talked about the staff only holding 11 notes while obviously on most instruments, almost any instruments we need more notes than that. We got to extend the staff, we do that with little lines called ledger lines and that's these little lines like this and they go up and they go down, above and below the staff. You should just extend the staff up and down. So, here is our treble clef, this is a G. We need a note that is lower than this. So we are going down G, this is an F, this is an E, this a D, this would be a C, we are just going down the alphabet, right? The letter below a C is a B and the letter below a B is an A. So this note on the second ledger line just as an example is an A, the note A and if you are going lower just the very next down note that is a G. It is just the next letter down.
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