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- APPENDIX C
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- MUSICAL NOTATION
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- The main reason for a non musician to learn the basics
- of musical notation is so you will better be able to under-
- stand some of the examples shown in the text.
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- If you are not an enrolled student, I recommend you go
- to your local library and find a basic music book. All you
- need to know will probably be explained in the first couple
- of chapters.
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- The following illustration is of the great staff. It
- is comprised of a pair of lines and spaces connected by a
- solid line on both ends. Each has five lines and four
- spaces.
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- illus D-1
- The Great Staff
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- The top part of the GREAT STAFF is called the TREBLE
- clef and the bottom part is called the BASS clef.
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- The TREBLE clef is designated by a symbol with the end
- of the line surrounding the note G. It also is referred to
- as the G clef. In the tuners language this note is G-47
- (the 47th note from the bottom of the piano). This note is
- written on the 2nd line of the treble clef.
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- The BASS clef is designated by a backwards C with two
- dots that surround the note F. This clef is sometimes called
- the F clef. This F in tuners language is F-33, and is
- written on the 4th line of the bass clef.
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- C-40 separates the two clefs exactly in the middle.
- This C is often referred to as MIDDLE C for this reason.
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- Refer to chapter 1 of the text and recall the sequence
- of notes. If you begin with C-40 and go up one space you
- will be on D-42. If you go down one space you will be on
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- B-39.
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- If you then go up from C-40 to the first line of the
- TREBLE CLEF, you will be on E-44. Go down from C-40 to the
- top line of the BASS CLEF, and you will be on A-37.
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- Follow this logic throughout the GREAT STAFF along with
- finding the notes on the piano keyboard, and you should have
- no trouble with the illustrations in the text.
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- Refer to illustration 1-3 and recall the names of the
- black keys in between the whites. Work with this on the
- piano for a while and it will become clear.
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