Treble clef

Ever seen one of these before?





This is called a Treble Clef. For our purposes, all you need to know for now is that the "Treble" (not to be confused with "trouble") Clef means your RIGHT hand.



Not too hard so far, right? So we've got Treble Clef, RIGHT hand.
No problem.



Here is our next piece!




This here is called a staff. It consists of 5 LINES, and 4 SPACES. See?







Now if we put all of this together, we'll be ready to get started!
Let's see what this looks like.






Not too frightening anymore, is it? Now that we're familiar with all
of the elements here within the staff, let's look
at some of the actual notes!



Let's look at the lines first. Have no fear! There is a trick to learning these.
From bottom to top, the lines are named the following:





The trick to remembering this is to create an acronym. I've always used:
"Ernie Gave Bert Dead Fish"... or

"Every Good Boy Does Fine"

Either will work, whichever helps you remember!


Got it yet? Ready to move on?
Now let's look at the Spaces! You might find this one easier to remember.
Why's that? Let's take a look!





I used to tell my younger piano students that
this was called the "SPACE FACE".
That usually brought up images of aliens with big helmets, and worked well.
Either way, it shouldn't be too hard to remember!


That's it for now! We'll dive into some actual staff reading next time!
Keep up with your scales!