When you read music, you read it off what is called a staff. A staff consists of four spaces and five lines. On the four spaces and five lines are notes. At the beginning of the staff you will always see either a Treble Clef or a Bass cleft. Each indicates what and where the starting note will be when you are reading your music. On a Treble clef, the line that it wraps around will always be G. When you look at a note that’s anywhere along that line, it’s always a G. Now, with the Base cleft it’s different. It wraps around a different line and has a different note, it’s an F. From there it just goes on with the alphabet all the way back to G. You use both the lines and spaces to represent the notes on a staff. Now, when you run out of room above the staff, you being to use what’s called ledger lines.
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The next thing that you need to know when you are starting to study music would be the duration of the notes. They all look different and they all have different counts. The longest note is called a whole note, then comes the half note, quarter note, eighth note and then sixteenth note. The next thing you need to look at now is the time
The next thing that you need to know when you are starting to study music would be the duration of the notes. They all look different and they all have different counts. The longest note is called a whole note, then comes the half note, quarter note, eighth note and then sixteenth note. The next thing you need to look at now is the time