The Treble Clef

Let’s start with a staff:

• A staff is five lines and the four spaces that are in between.

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If you put a line on each side of a staff…..

• Then you get what’s called a measure!

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Measures then form the lines that we put the music on

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• These measures and lines are used for treble OR bass clef! The thing that makes the difference is the symbol at the front.!

Treble Clef Symbol

• With the treble clef symbol on the clef, we play or sing higher notes.

• Each line and space will symbolize a note for us to play or sing

• For the purpose of this presentation, I will be only using whole notes, but any kind of rhythm can be used on the

staff.

Treble Clef on a staff:

• Looks like this:

And with a time signature added, like this:

Now for the notes!

• Remember, in music the notes go from A-G then repeat

• ABCDEFGABCDEFGABCDEFG etc.

• ALWAYS Use capital letters when talking about the notes on the

staff!

We begin giving the lines and spaces letter names from BOTTOM to TOP

The lines are:• E

• G

• B

• D

• F

Also known as:

• E very

• G ood

• B oy

• D oes

• F ine

Or:

• E lephants

• G ot

• B ig

• D irty

• Feet

Or:

• E lvis’s• G uitar• B roke• D own• F riday

On the staff, it looks like this:

The spaces are EASY to remember!

• Space rhymes with

FACE!

•F

•A

•C

•E

On the clef, the spaces look like this:

All the notes together are like so:

In the next few weeks, we’ll keep learning about

these notes!

The End