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Memorize Notes Above and Below the Staff
By Diana Rogers
When learning to read notation, we learn little mnemonic gems to remember the notes on the lines and spaces of the staff. "Every good boy does fine" helps us remember the line notes on the treble staff for the right hand. F-A-C-E are the treble clef spaces, from bottom to top. How about the left hand line notes- "Good Boys Do Fine Always" and for the spaces, we have "All Cows Eat Grass," from bottom to top. But what was the first note you learned on the keyboard? For many of us, it was Middle C. Lo and behold, that note doesn't fit into any of our memorization schemes. It sits on a leger line, which is a short added line above or below the staff. They're used when the notes are too high or low to be placed on the staff. It's not uncommon for a player to come to a grinding halt when a lot of leger lines start appearing in their sheet music. Well, this is the year we stop getting pushed around by those pesky notes beyond the staff. Here's one way of committing them to memory. First, get some index cards. Next, on the lined side of the card, draw a single staff with a treble or bass clef. You'll only be drawing one note, so the staff needn't be very long. Then draw a note from among the notes below or above the treble staff, and on the other side of the card, write the names of the note. Repeat with all the notes above and below the treble staff, until you've covered the notes up to four leger lines above and below. Then do the same with the notes above and below the bass staff. Each time you practice, spend some time with the cards: Look at the side of the card with the note, name the note, then play it. Flip the card over to check to see if you played the right one. The notes above and beyond the staff needn't make you feel like you're not on solid ground. Use the homemade flash cards as part of your practice time. You might also consider taking some lessons. Perhaps you've been learning on your own for quite some time and you've no doubt come up with some questions. Bring them with you to your lessons. Or talk with some piano players you know and pick their brains. Once you understand piano note reading, you'll be moving on to smooth chord progressions, learning patterns and playing by ear in no time, along with reading sheet music in all styles of music that you like! |
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There is yet another way Diana. Music is the alphabet from A-G, right? The bottom line in treble clef is "E", the first space is "F" and so on. If music is merely the alphabet from A-G, the first space below the staff is "D", and the line below that is "C", and so on. Above the staff? The top line is "F", the space above that is "G" and the line above that is "A", etc. If you use the alphabet, I don't care how many lines and spaces there are above or below the staff, you can figure it out just be using the alphabet. For memorizing, on lines above - it's "All Cars Eat Gas". For the spaces -- "Good Boys Do Fine Always"... For below (traveling down) you can make up any silly little phrase like (for lines) "Candles Always Flicker During Bowling" Bowling??? But you get the drift... Good intel.
Pretty good idea. If you made five cards above the treble staff and five cards below the bass staff with three between the staff that would be thirteen. T-G, T-A,
T-B, T-C, T-D, M-B, M-C, M-D, B-F, B-E, B-D, B-C, B-D Now make four sets: clubs, hearts, spades and diamonds and you could play Rummy, Concentration, Go Fish or even Solitaire and make learning music several games. I can see where picture recognition would work better than F-A-C-E.
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