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Today we’re going to look at part two of the Grand Staff.

So, in my first (or second) lesson, remember that we looked at some acronyms to help us name the line notes and the space notes for both the treble clef and the bass clef.

What’s that? You don’t remember them? Well, we’re going to come up with some more so that your brain is just exploding with these notes.

So, here’s the first acronym we looked at for the line notes of the treble clef: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. These represent letters E, G, B, D, and F going upwards on the lines of the staff. Now, if you’re not a little boy who doesn’t like fudge, this may see boring to you.

So, let’s try a new one, shall we?

Every Good Bear Deserves Fish

and

Every Good Bird Does Fly

If you want, you can make up some really ridiculous ones to make sure you NEVER forget.Here’s my personal favourite:

Elise Gardens Big Dumb Flamingos

Does it make sense? No. But it’s funny, and a lot more memorable. See, learning music can be fun!

So, for the space notes, we usually just use the word FACE, for the notes on the spaces going upward, F, A, C, E. Let’s make it more interesting, shall we?

Frogs And Crocodiles Everywhere

If you don’t like reptiles and amphibians, that one might not be so good.

Foreign Alien Come Earthbound

If you’re afraid of aliens, you might want to skip that one.

Fly Away Crazy Elephant

Who doesn’t love flying, crazy elephants? Okay, now we’re moving onto the bass clef.

For the line notes, we use Good Boy Deserve Fudge Always to represent G, B, D, F, A going upwards along the staff.

Boring. Let’s change it up a little

Great Big Dogs Fight Animals

Good Birds Do Fly Always

Grandma Bit Dan’s Finger Again.

I don’t know who Dan is, but it sounds funny. And now for the space notes. We normally use All Cows Eat Grass.

How about All Cars Eat Gas for those car lovers out there?

All Chickens Eat Grain

Any Creature Escapes Geometry

Wow, that’s a pretty weird one. So, if you like this game, go pull out a dictionary and see what acronyms you can come up with to remember the line and space notes for each clef. I hope you have hours of fun discovering new acronym and PRACTICING with them!

Elise’s Musical Tip For The Day:

Today’s mini lesson has been brought to you by: the Letter E. E is for the E major scale. The E Major Scale has four sharps. F Sharp, C Sharp, G Sharp, and D Sharp. To play this scale, play the notes E – F# – G#  - A – B – C# – D# – E using the finger 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 1 – 2 – 3 for the right hand, and 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – 3 – 2 – 1 for the left hand.

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Today, I’ll be sharing a little information about the two clefs that we use in music.

I know, I know, EVERYONE knows about the treble clef and the bass clef. You almost don’t even have to play a musical instrument to know about these two clefs.

Well, I need you to listen closely, because we’re going to dig down just a little bit deeper into the history of the clefs. Even if you know that the treble clef represents higher notes played with the right hand and the bass clef represents lower notes played with the left hand… do you actually KNOW where the clefs even started?

Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. But I will explain it anyway. So, as we know, the bass clef is written in musical notation on the lower part of the grand staff, and this tells us that the pitches belonging to these notes can be found on the left side of the piano.

Did you know that the bass clef is supposed to resemble the shape of an ear?

Originally, the bass clef was never called “the bass clef.” It used to be known as “the F clef.” The German letter F is exactly reversed from the F that we use, except it has two slashes across the middle.

Over time and most likely because of messy writing (yes, it’s true), the F clef evolved into the bass clef that we know and use today. The two slashes in the F clef eventually turned into the two dots that we see on the bass clef nowadays.

So now, we’ll move onwards to the treble clef. The treble clef also used to have a different name from: the G clef. The G clef actually evolved into the treble clef from using the letters G and S side by side.

Again, because of messy writing, the letter G and the letter S came together to form the treble clef. Do you sort of see how the treble clef looks like the letter G and the letter S at the same time?

SO, the treble clef is found on the top level of the grand staff, telling us that the pitches of these notes can be found on the right side of the piano, therefore played by our right hand.

Next, we’re going to look at barlines. What do barlines do? They pretty much divide staves into separate sections called bars or measures, which hold certain values of notes and rests. Right now, we’ll look at three different kinds

The first is a single barline, and it really just separates notes, rests, and beats, and it’s the most commonly used. This is what they look like:

Double barlines are used to show a slightly bigger break between sections of music.

And then Final or Closing double barlines are used to show that a piece is ending, or the end of a specific movement.

Elise’s Musical Tip For The Day:

This mini lesson has been brought to you by the letter D, which is for the D Major scale! The D Major scale has two sharps in it: F Sharp and C Sharp. You can play D – E – F# – G – A – B – C# – D with the fingering 1 – 2 – 3 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 for the right hand and 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – 3 – 2 – 1 for the left hand.

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I’m going to go through some basic music and piano facts.

Firstly, I’m going to get started on the topic of musical notation. What is musical notation? Well, when I went to go look this up on Google, it was defined as, “a technical system of symbols used to represent special things.”

In my language, this means, “tiny black dots and lines and other stuff which are somehow processed by the human brain to mean MUSIC.”

Firstly, we’ll take a good long look at the Grand Staff. The grand staff is the basic musical structure used to read music. That’s where all those little black dots and lines are shown for people to interpret music.

In it’s very earliest notation, the grand staff used to look something like this:

Pretty ridiculous, right? The straight line used to represent a sort of “home” note, while the squiggles represented pitches that went up and down above and below the line. Over time, musical notation became more exact and adapted into what we know today was the grand staff.

Elise’s Musical Tip For The Day:

Today’s mini lesson has been brought to you by: The letter C! The letter C can represent the C Major scale. The C Major scale is the most basic of scales because it has no sharps or flats in it. You can play C – D – E – F – G – A – B – C using the fingering 1 – 2 – 3 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 for the right hand, and 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – 3 – 2 – 1 for the left hand.

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