Why its staff/stave:

• The musical staff or stave is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch

• A staff operates on two axes, like a coordinate plane/math grid. It operates up and down and left and right.

• up and down control the pitch.

• left to right control the rhythm.

• Musical Alphabet- A, B, C, D, E, F, and G(cycle repeats itself)

staff/staves

Actual definition: The staff can be thought of as a musical graph on which music notes, rests, and musical symbols are placed to indicate to the reader the specific pitch of a note.

​Ledger Lines

• a short line added above or below a musical staff to extend its range.

ledger lines

Understanding Ledger Lines: https://youtu.be/oS1GHVYqqzc

• Rhythm indicates when to play the note

• In music, the beat is the basic unit of time. Its the pulse.

Rhythm/beat

• Pitch indicates what note to play

• The higher up on a staff the higher the pitch

• The lower down on a staff the lower the pitch

Pitch

Pitch and Rhythm

pitch/rythym

Clefs

• Bass Clef, also known as F clef, is shaped like an ornamental letter F, accompanied by two dots that bracket the music note F3, which is the first F below middle C

Clefs

Drawing a bass clef: https://youtu.be/aYAjStgumrI Understanding Clefs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef

Understanding bass clef: https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/bass-clef/

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Grand staff

• An average full-sized piano will have 88 keys.

• Each key corresponds with a note on the grand staff.

• It is an effective way to see which parts of the music should be played with the left hand and which parts should be played with the right hand.

The piano

Music through the piano

Piano