Spinning Silk Music

In order to read the notes on the staff, you must know what clef you are in. The clef sign gives you a key note that you can use to figure out the rest of the notes.

The first clef we will look at is the treble clef. The treble clef sign comes from the letter G and points out the line that the note G will be on. As you can see below, the treble clef sign circles the G line. Any note on that line is G.

To figure out the other notes, you simply use the music alphabet. If G is the 2nd line, then the space below will be F and the line below F will be E. When working your way down the staff, go backwards in the music alphabet. When working your way up the staff, go forward in the music alphabet. The space above G will be what? There is no H, so it can’t be that. You must start the alphabet over again. The space above G is A. Then the line above A is B–and so on.

Musical notes are written on the staff. There are five lines and four spaces on the staff for notes to be written on(or in).

Here is a picture of the staff.

When speaking about the lines, they are called by numbers starting at the bottom. This means the bottom line is line #1, second from the bottom is line #2, and so on. The spaces are numbered the same way–the bottom space being space #1.

See picture below:

The music alphabet is only seven letters long–A B C D E F G.
To make note reading easier, learn to say them backwards also–G F E D C B A.