Staff Notes!
What are Staff Lines?
Pick up any piece of written music and you can see groups of lines on which music note symbols are written.
In standard Western musical notation, this group of lines is known as the Staff or Stave!
This set of five horizontal lines and four spaces (staff lines) is where the music notes are drawn. The various note symbols that are placed on these lines & spaces indicate the pitch of the notes on staff.
• A Staff basically consists of five lines and four spaces.
• Notes on Staff, drawn on the lines or spaces on a staff will correspond to white keys on the keyboard.
The moment you place a symbol called Clef on the left hand side of the staff, the notes on staff will have a fixed pitch assigned to them. Read more about Treble Clef and Bass Clef on the piano lesson pages!
When you join two staves (usually the Treble & Bass Clefs) by a brace, suggesting that the notes on them needs to be played at once by a single performer, a Grand Staff is formed. In this instance, middle C is centered between the two staves.
The music notes on staff should be read from left to the right i.e. one after the other. The time signature, tempo of the piece, and the duration of the notes on staff will determine how fast/slow the staff notes need to be played.
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