Thought instead of doing text based tutorials and stuff, I’ll do videos with a little blurb like this one before each. Reading music will probably fill at least the next couple months of Music Tips, but it should be fun. Enjoy
Music Tip Monday: Reading Music – Part 1
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I remember learning those when I first started learning the piano! I had forgotten them over the years though so thanks for the reminder! And I agree, the bass clef seems to be harder to read than the treble clef. I can almost always sight read the right hand, but the left hand is much harder.
It’s always nice to review right? I feel like the left hand…it’s backwards sometimes or something, and my Mom taught me the mnemonics but couldn’t remember the one for ACEG so I just counted lines until I could remember it 🙂
Just another tip to help you remember this stuff. The Treble cleff and the bass cleff are either sides of Middle C – the note that is right in the Middle of the staff lines. The Treble cleff sign is actually a fancy letter G and it’s center circle “targets on the line that is G. The Base cleff is a fancy letter F and the two dots are on either side of the F line. So if you forget the little mnemonic words, just remember Middle C is in the middle of the staff lines, G is the line that the treble cleff is circling, and F is the line between the bass cleff’s dots.
This is so much fun to learn and share. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for sharing those tips, who knew those characters actually meant something! 🙂 I did read that, I just didn’t know how important it was.
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