Todays lesson is about musical notes on the staff and what they are called

When learning notes on the staff, rather than learn each individual note you will learn Lines and spaces

As you saw in the previous lesson. The staff consists of 5 lines and 4 spaces and you will learn what notes are called when they are written on a particular line or space.

First we will deal with the lines. We can use an easy to remember phrase to memorise the lines.

Starting from the bottom line the notes are called. E, G, B, D, F, and the phrase is:

Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit

So obviously we are using the first letter of each word in our phrase to tell us what that note is called.

If a note appears on the bottom line or the first line, the first word of our phrase is “Every” so the note is called E. If a note appears on the middle line or the third line, the third word in our phrase is “Boy” so that note is called B.

Now lets deal with the spaces, here we can use a popular word to memorise the spaces.

Starting from the bottom space or the first space the notes are called F, A, C, E, and the word is:

FACE

Here if we want to know the name of the note in the fourth space then we need the fourth letter of our word

FACE, so that note is called E.

There are also notes above and below the staff. We need to talk about two notes that appear below the staff. The first of these notes is called D and is written on the underside of the first line like this:

The other note is Middle C. We will deal with this in the next lesson.

Now let’s look at all the notes, lines and spaces mixed together.

Now here is the same selection of notes without the notes names printed. Cover the above picture and practice recognising the notes.

Remember D is the only note below the staff. The rest are lines and spaces. Use your phrase “Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit” for the lines and the word “FACE” for the spaces.

In the next lesson we will look at MIDDLE C and how to recognise it on the staff and on the keyboard.

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