Noisemaking 101 - Notes of the Treble Clef
Reading music is not as complicated as you think. Today we are going to learn to read the notes of the treble clef. In another tutorial we will learn the notes of the bass clef.
When we read music we are gaining two pieces of information. First, we gain information about rhythm (how long to hold a note) and secondly we learn the pitch of the note. The treble clef, although it can be expanded up or down, is mostly concerned with pitches in the middle of our hearing range. These pitches can be found in the middle of the piano, sung by the tenor voice or the alto voice and the middle to low range of the violin.
So what are the pitches?
In music we use an alphabet from A-G. That's A-B-C-D-E-F-G and then you repeat. When reading the pitches on the staff the pitches go up or down sequentially depending on if the pitch goes up the page (to the top of the page) or down the page (to the bottom of the page). Perhaps this diagram will help.
Notice how the notes go sequentially from line to space then space to line. Also, notice on the diagram that the notes start with E. This is an arbitrary start point but E will always fall on the same place on the treble clef staff.
The next diagram will help you remember the names of each note on the staff.
You might be wondering what the symbol at the left part of the staff is. It is appropriately called the treble clef. When you see this you will know to play the notes we have just learned.
You have now learned the notes of the treble clef. It will be up to your music teacher to show you how to play these notes on your instrument.
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