The Bass Clef

Let’s start with a staff:

• A staff is five lines and the four spaces that are in between.

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If you put a line on each side of a staff…..

• Then you get what’s called a measure!

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Measures then form the lines that we put the music on

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• These measures and lines are used for treble OR bass clef! The thing that makes the difference is the symbol at the front.!

Bass Clef Symbol

• With the bass clef symbol on the clef, we play or sing lower notes.

• Each line and space will symbolize a note for us to play or sing

• For the purpose of this presentation, I will be only using whole notes, but any kind of rhythm can be used on the

staff.

Here is a bass clef

on the staff:

Now for the notes!

• Remember, in music the notes go from A-G then repeat

• ABCDEFGABCDEFGABCDEFG etc.

• ALWAYS Use capital letters when talking about the notes on the

staff!

We begin giving the lines and spaces letter names from

BOTTOM to TOP

The lines are:• G

• B

• D

• F

• A

Also known as:

• G reat• B ig• D ogs• F ight• A lways

Or:

• G reat• B ig• D reams• For• A mericans

The lines on the clef look like this

The Spaces are:

•A•C•E•G

Also known as:

•A ll

•C ars

•E at

•G as

Or:

•A ll•C ows•E at•G rass

Or:

•A ll•C ats•E at

•G arbage

The Spaces on the clef look like this:

All the notes on the staff look like

this:

In the next few weeks, we will be learning more about these

notes!

The End