The Treble Clef

Let’s start with a staff: A staff is five lines and the four spaces that are in between. __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________

If you put a line on each side of a staff….. Then you get what’s called a measure! __________________________________ I_________________________________I I_________________________________I I_________________________________I I_________________________________I

Measures then form the lines that we put the music on I I I I II I I I I II I I I I II 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