Ledger Line Music Notes and How To Easily Read Them

when a composer runs out of lines and spaces on a staff and needs to add notes either below or above the staff ledger lines are used at first it seems to be a daunting task to instantly identify a ledger line note however there are a few similarities that once you understand him make that process much much easier the similarities I'm talking about refer to similar patterns below the bass clef staff and above the treble clef staff there's an effective way to think of the ledger lines below the treble clef staff and above the bass clef staff the slope method of identifying a ledger line note is to simply count up or down from the cap or a bottom note of a staff using that method above the treble clef staff from the F the next note up would be G and then the first ledger line note would be a-b-c-d-e-f-g and below the treble clef from the e we have d c b a g f e d above the bass clef staff from the line a we have the note b c d e f G a and B below the bass clef staff from the line G we have f e d c b a g and f now let's look at a much faster way to identify the ledger line notes above the treble clef and below the bass clef nearest ER to see above the treble clef has two ledger lines and to see below the base class also has two ledger lines middle C which is in between dat bass and treble clef only has one ledger line so don't confuse this with middle C these are only the C's above the treble clef staff and below the bass clef staff as we learned in previous lessons the key names on a piano keyboard move from left to right following the alphabet from A to G and then repeating and on the treble clef and the bass class there's a similar direction of movement from bottom to top so to be clear on a grand staff to alphabet direction goes from the bottom to top notice the first three ledger lines above the treble clef staff and below the bass clef staff spells a word eighth let's utilize this information and figure out which ledger line note this is we know that the sea has two ledger lines and it is the center of the word eighth therefore this note must be an E using the same method let's figure out what note this is below the base class again we know that the anchor note C has two ledger lines and it is the middle of the word eighth so this note must be an A let's go back to above the treble clef staff and figure out which ledger line note this is again we know that the anchor note C has two ledger lines and it is the middle of the word eighth and we know the next note after E is F therefore our note is an F let's practice this method with one more ledger line note below the base clef staff what note is this again we know that the anchor note si has two ledger lines and it is the middle of the word ace and we know that our musical alphabet goes from A to G and then repeats so right before a is the G therefore the note is a G there's an effective way to sync of the ledger lines below the treble clef staff and above the bass clef staff first let's remember that middle C which is in between the bass and the treble clef has one ledger line a helpful way to think when identifying a ledger line note that is above the bass clef staff is to imagine the treble clef staff lines starting on the very next ledger line above the C let's try this method and identifying this note we know that middle C is the first ledger line so the very next ledger line is where we imagine our treble clef staff once we visualize that we can clearly see that this note is an F let's identify the next note and get in the habit of visualizing the treble clef staff let's identify this note we know the first ledger line is a C and we want to visualize the treble clef staff starting on the very next ledger line that makes it easy to identify our note as an e if we visualize the treble clef staff in the same way we can clearly see that the other two notes are an A and a B the same method works below the treble clef staff and what we do is visualize the bass clef staff one ledger line below the middle C let's use this method to identify this ledger line note we know that middle C has one ledger line and the very next as a line is where we will imagine our bass clef staff this makes it easy to identify the notes as an e how about this note it looks tough and would require a lot of counting with the standard method but when we imagine our bass clef staff it's easily identified as a D when several ledger line notes are necessary it's much easier to write the Italian abbreviation for high octave and low octave which means simply to play the notes an octave higher or an octave lower for instance the notes on the treble clef staff to the left with the ledger lines are the same notes written using the 8va symbol and you'll notice the dotted line shows you which notes are affected this makes it much easier to read two notes and this image the ledger line notes to the left are again the very same notes as the ones written on the right using the 8vb symbol which means to play the notes an octave lower

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Length: 8min 17sec (497 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 09 2015