Megan Endicott

Note Names on the Treble Staff

A staff is where music notes “live”.

The Staff

A staff has 5 lines…

And four spaces…

Notes can live on lines.

And notes can live in spaces.

We know this because of the note head.

To determine if the note is on a line, a line will go through the middle of the note head.

To determine if the note is in a space, the note heads will be in between two lines.

When identifying notes, musicians ALWAYS count bottom to top.

Notes moving higher on the staff have a high pitch.

Notes moving lower on the staff have a low pitch.

Each clef has a special way of identifying note names. Kind of like a secret code.

Treble Clef

On the treble clef,notes on spaces, spell the word FACE.

F

AC

E

However, on the treble clef,notes on the lines do not…

E

GB

DF

Musicians use a sentence to help learn the line notes.

Every

Good

BoyDoes

Fine

Together, these two “codes” enable us to read music.

Microsoft ClipArt

ClipArt “used with permission from Microsoft”

Other images created by Megan Endicott

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