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They all LOVE to practice drawing notes and musical symbols! I start with drawing the treble clef We hope you now feel more comfortable with staff paper.Lately, every lesson, all of my students spend about 3 minutes with one of these staffs. As a review, try pointing to and naming all three of the notes that we learned today: Treble G, middle C, bass F. Middle C is the C nearest the middle of your piano. This note is one ledger line below the treble staff or one ledger line above the bass staff and we call it middle C. This note forms a kind of bridge between the treble staff and the bass staff and it’s positioned on a ledger line which, remember, helps us to draw notes that go off the edge of the staff. Now there’s one more note to learn today. Anytime a note head is on this line, we call that note bass F. We call it an F clef because it shows us where the F line is. The F clef is also an old-fashioned way to draw the letter “F”. We call this staff the bass clef and its nickname is the F clef. This clef is for the low notes, including every note below middle C on the piano and all the way down. Now let’s take a look at this other clef. If you want to keep going past the top staff line, which is G, we could go one higher up to A and keep on going as high as we want. Ledger lines help us go off the staff, above or below. If we want to keep going higher above the staff, then we’ll need a special line called a ledger line. This pattern continues through the entire staff. If we go from the A space up to the next line, we’re now on a B. If the note head moves off the G line up to the next space, then it becomes a different note that is one step higher. Anytime you see a note head on that G line, we call that note “treble G” on the piano. In music it became tradition to draw this G clef to remind you that the line going through the G swirl is the line for the note G. Notice how there is a hidden G shape in the treble clef? Sometimes the treble clef is called the G clef and that’s because it’s an old, fancy way of drawing the letter G. This treble clef is a symbol to remind you of something. Treble means “high”, so the treble clef is used when drawing any notes from this middle C all the way up to the highest notes.

You probably also noticed that there are some new symbols on the staff in the video. When you put those two staves together it makes the grand staff. That’s because when playing piano music we need a staff for your left hand and a staff for your right hand. You’ll notice that the grand staff has two staves, which is the plural of staff.

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Want to learn piano? We can help! Sign up for a free account now. Take a look at the video below to see this all more clearly. As notes step up they go line, space, line, space, line. They also decided that notes could be on a line or on a space between the lines. The monks decided that if the song had a low note they would draw it down low on the staff and the higher the position of the note the higher you would sing. Originally, notes were drawn with square and rectangle shapes but today we use a round shape called the note head. You might be interested to know that when it was first invented a thousand years ago, the staff only had four lines, but today we use a five-line staff. The system they invented is still in use today and it’s what we use to draw music. They invented a way to draw the notes so they could remember and easily share with others the hundreds of chants that they knew.

In fact, they knew so many chants that it became hard to remember them all. The monks knew hundreds of different songs which we call “chants”. They read the Bible, and they got together every three hours to sing and to pray.

Here’s a true story of how the first staff was invented, in case you want to learn about the grand staff before using your free printable staff paper.Ībout a thousand years ago there were men called monks who lived together in a monastery. Where did staff paper come from? A brief history of the staff

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