Piano Tutorial – The Staff

Are you ready for your second lesson.
Todays lesson title is:
The Staff

In its simplest form the staff looks like this

simple staff

Basically 5 lines and 4 spaces (the spaces are between the lines).

Musical notes are written on the lines like this

musical notes on the staff

Or in the spaces like this

music notes staff

Or a combination of both

music notes lines and spaces

Now let’s add a Treble clef and a Time signature and Bar lines to the staff.

teble cleff-bar lines

Treble Clef

When you see the Treble clef you will play the keyboard with your right hand. If you are playing the organ then you will play the top keyboard. If you are using a single keyboard then you will play the top part or right hand side of the keyboard.

Time signature

When you see a time signature, this tells you how many beats are allowed in each bar. In our example, 4 over 4, this tells us we are allowed 4 beats to every bar, no less and no more. This will become clearer when you start to play your first piece of music.

Bar Lines

Bar lines are used to separate bars. So the space between 2 bar lines is called a Bar. In this example you can see 2 Bars.

bars-bar lines

- Bar1 Bar2

So let’s put all these things together.

5 bars of music

Here we have 5 bars of music which is played with the right hand and we have 4 beats in every bar.

Now we need to know what all those notes are called and I will cover this in the next lesson. Watch out for it, it’s called
Notes On The Staff

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Mike Shaw
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