Learning Objectives
- Review the facts about clefs and their relationship to the keyboard.
Clefs VI: Summary
Interactive Summary
The interactive exercise below summarizes most of the concepts covered in the course so far, including the keyboard, treble and bass clefs, the grand staff, octave designations, and ledger lines. Play with it for a while to familiarize yourself further with the names and locations of notes on the grand staff and their relationship to the keyboard. Rotating the example allows you to see the keyboard in its standard layout, although it turns the staff sideways.
Remember that there is a one-to-one correlation between the lines and spaces on the staff and the keys on the keyboard. But above all, listen, listen, listen.
The Staff and the Keyboard
| Interactive summary |
In the series of activities that follows, you will be asked to spell pitches using the treble and bass clefs by dragging them onto a staff. You should first become comfortable with the octave register numbers illustrated in the example above. (Note that the bass clef uses primarily octaves 2 and 3 while the treble clef mostly uses octaves 4 and 5).
Following these activities, there will be two graded quizzes: one on treble and bass clefs and one on ledger lines. Good luck!