1. Musical Symbols

2. The Music Staff
A staff has five lines and four spaces. Composers write notes on the staff when they compose music. You look at a staff to read music. ___________________________5____________________________________4_______________4_____________________3________________3__________________2__________________2_________________1____________________1__________________

3. A staff is more than just lines and spaces
A staff is more than just lines and spaces.  A staff has a clef sign, time signature, bar lines, measures, notes, key signature, ledger lines, notes, rests, and lots of other stuff. 

4. Names the second line: Line G.
Treble Clef
Treble Clef / G Clef
Names the second line: Line G.
Steps to drawing the treble clef:
Draw a vertical line from top to bottom.
Go to the top of the line and make a loop to the fourth line.
Cross the line and go to line 1.
Wrap around line 2.
Clef used for high register instruments: Piano, Violin, Flute, Guitar, Recorder, Piccolo.

5. Bass Clef Bass Clef / F clef Names the fourth line F.
Step to drawing the Bass clef:
1. Draw a solid circle on the fourth line.
2. Extend to the fifth line.
3. Go to the second line.
4. Add two dots on spaces tree and four.
Clef used for low register
instruments: Cello,
Double Bass, Piano,
Bassoon, Bass Guitar

6. Naming the lines and Spaces in the Treble Staff
__________________________F____________________________________D_______________E_____________________B________________C___________________G_________________A__________________E____________________F_____________
Lines: Every Good Boy Does Fine
Spaces: Spell FACE
Can you come up with your own phrase to remember the lines and spaces?

7. Naming the lines and Spaces in the Bass Staff
Always
Fine Do
Boys
Good
How are the lines on the Bass clef similar to the lines on the Treble clef?
Grass
Eat
Cows
All

8. Ledger Lines
Notes written above or below the staff are called ledger lines. Ledger lines are short lines use only when notes are written outside of the five lines.
How many ledger line notes can you find?

9. Time Signature
Time signatures tell you how many beats and what kind of notes per measure there are. The top number tells you how many beats per measure. The bottom tells you that the quarter note ( ) equals 1 beat.

10. Measures and Bar lines Beats divide the staff into measures.
Bar lines show the beginning and ending of each measure.
What is the time signature?
How many beats are in each measure?
How many measures are there?
How many bar lines are there?

11. Musical Notes
Notes look different so that we can distinguish them. They have parts which makes them different: head, stem, flag, beam, and dots.
Look at the note chart:
Which notes have stems?
Which notes have flags?
Which note has just a head?
What two notes are not colored in?
Which note do you think equals 1
beat?

12. Music Jeopardy Music Staff Clefs Music Notes Note Values
Time Signature 10 20 30 40 50

13. How many beats are in each measure if the time signature is 2/4 and what kinds of notes can we use?
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14. 2 beats
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15. Which line names the Treble Clef?
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16. Second Line
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17. How Many Lines and Spaces does the Music Staff Have?
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18. 5 lines and 4 spaces
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19. What is another name for the Treble Clef?
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20. In ¾ time, what does the top number tell you?
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21. The number of beats per measure.
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22. Which note does not have a stem and it equals 4 beats?
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23. The Whole Note
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24. We count our lines and spaces __?___ to ___?__.
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25. Bottom to Top
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26. On the Bass Staff, which line names the Bass Clef?
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27. The Fourth Line
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28. What are the names of the line notes in the Treble Staff?
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29. E G B D F
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30. What is the name of this note?
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31. Quarter Note
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32. If we have two in each measure, what do you think our time signature is?
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33. 2/4 Time
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34. In ¾ time, the bottom number tells you that the _____
In ¾ time, the bottom number tells you that the _____?_______ gets the beat.
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35. Quarter Note
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36. In the Bass Staff, what is the name of the note on the fourth space?
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37. Note G
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38. What is the name of this symbol?
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39. Bass Clef
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40. How many beats does a half note get?
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41. 2 Beats
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42. What is the name of the note on the third line of the Treble Staff?
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43. Note B
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44. Name a musical instrument that reads in the Treble Clef?
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45. Piano, Violin, Guitar, Flute, Piccolo, recorder
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46. Which stringed instrument reads in the Bass Clef?
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47. Cello / Bass
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48. _______?_____ are use when writing notes above or below the staff.
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49. Ledger Lines
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50. Which note is on the Fifth Line of the Treble Staff?
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51. Note F
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52. Which line is note D, on the Bass Clef?
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53. The Third Line
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54. The Treble Clef wraps around line number ___?__.
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55. Two
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56. The Bass Clef has two dots, which line goes right in between these two dots?
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57. Fourth Line
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58. FREE 50 POINTS!!! BRAVO!
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