(Fill in the box below each image with the letters of the notes you see. See if you can work out what the story says. (Go back to Lesson 1 to practise the notes first if you need to) Practise until you can quickly name all the notes (You may need to come back a few times over a few days!).Īnd now putting everything together from last week, this game tests your notes on the stave and on the piano. Play it on the piano above and sing the note. Hope you worked out that was 'G below middle C' - that is probably the lowest note leads or baris would be asked to sing. If the note is not on the stave and has lots of leger lines on it, just count backwards in the alphabet from a note you know (maybe middle C) - space, line, space, until you reach it. On the treble clef the notes in the spaces make the word FACE.ĭoes the curly hair remind you of anything?Ĭan you see what the elephant is carrying? Play and sing them both - they are very different, aren't they. In comparison, the 'C above middle C' (so that's the C in 'FACE' in the picture below) is a high note (one of the highest notes leads or baris would ever be asked to sing.) Middle C is a note most women can sing easily (For barbershop leads and baris, it is in the lower middle part of the range you sing). Ill explain more about what that means in a. Using the Alto Clef meant that the typical vocal range of the alto fitted. As Merriam Webster puts says, treble clef is a clef that places G above middle C on the second line of the staff. This is because the pitch range of an alto occupies an awkward range of notes that sits between the Treble Clef and Bass Clef staves. Middle C on the piano is usually the C closest to the middle of the piano. Historically, the Alto Clef was originally used to reduce the need for ledger lines when writing out the music for alto singers in choirs. If you want to have a go at writing out the scale above - You can print out some blank manuscript paper. This music theory packet for piano lessons or music class includes Right Hand CDE and CDEFG practice (C Position and Middle C Position) on the treble clef. Middle C represented on (from left to right) treble, alto, tenor and bass clefs Three clefs aligned to middle C A clef (from French: clef 'key') is a musical symbol used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical staff. If you are writing these yourself, remember that the leger line through middle C should be the same distance away from the line above it as the 5 lines of the stave are apart from each other. There are only 5 lines on the stave so when the lines run out they are drawn in on the note, like middle C above (The extra lines are called leger lines). The notes alternate being on the lines or in the spaces and just like the piano, they just move through the octave C-D-E-F-G-A-B and then start again C-D-E-F-G-A-B.

Middle c on treble clef