Music Basics for Gutarist Part I

The Staff, Clefs, and Ledger Lines

The staff is the foundation upon which notes are drawn. 

The modern staff comprises five lines and four spaces.

Every line or space on the staff represents a white key on the keyboard.

Clefs assign individual notes to certain lines or spaces.

Two clefs are normally used; The Treble and Bass clefs.

The Treble Clef spirals around the second line from the bottom. This spiral tells us that notes on this line are G.

The Bass Clef has two dots, above and below the second line from the top. The dots tell us that this line is F.

If we need more notes above or below the staff we add Ledger Lines, which extend the range of the staff. (Middle C is the first ledger line below the staff in Treble Clef.) 

 

The note names in Bass Clef are:

Middle C is the first ledger line above the staff in Bass Clef.

 To be continued.......