[Music] hello and welcome to piano lesson number five okay today I'm going to be talking about um sheet music uh reading notes um we touched a little bit on time signatures and note values in the previous lesson so if you haven't watched that try to go check that out this lesson I'm going to be talking about how uh all the names on the staff not all of them I guess because there's 88 or more but I'm going to get into a basic general idea of how to find the notes on the staff what uh different claps are called and certain things like that so this is going to be the meat and potatoes of learning to read the sheet music so get ready it's not that hard though it's pretty easy all right so the first thing we're going to do is look look at the two types of CLS because um each hand or whatever is sort of divided into uh a c or whatever now this isn't always the case most of these things I'm telling you aren't always true except for the notes on the staff those are always going to be the same but like right hand playing the trouble CL left hand playing base clo stuff like this like different rules might change cuz in more advanced stuff but for right now and for quite far into the future I'm just going to give you basic just this is how it is this is how it is this is how it is in Blunt terms so that there's some set rules and that way it gives you guys some sort of like solid foundation to work off of okay so the first thing is there's two main CLS now there are more but I'm not going to get into them these are the two basic CLS and you'll probably only ever use these if you use other ones uh it's going to be way down the road okay so the first one I'm going to look at here is the treble clo so it's called the t r e b l e it's called treble treble cluff cluff as in both of these are CLS and it's sort of like a sign that tells you which CL it is and it changes the way the notes are you'll see in a minute okay so the right hand goes with the trouble clap and the left hand goes with the base clap okay so right hand trouble CL left hand base CL so the base CL looks sort of like um that sort of almost looks like an ear with two dots floating in space beside the ear or whatever else you might think anyway so the base cliff just has a little dot a big dot here and then it swoops down and then two little dots here okay now the trouble cff it sort of has a DOT and it goes up this long stem and then it swivels down okay so trouble trouble cluff right hand base CL left hand so you can do exercises like uh like ask ask your friends it's like you guys can work together or something if you have a partner and you can be like what's the base club and someone else can say left hand and then someone else is like well what's the left hand base Club so you kind of do you test yourself and whatnot or you can test yourself instead of each other okay so that's base cluff left hand right hand is trle CL that's basically it those are the two CLS wow it's pretty easy okay now uh these CLS have to go on something so that you know What notes to play okay now they have to go on something called a staff okay a staff is comprised of five lines I should have probably written this out one two three four five there's five lines okay always five lines and there's four spaces okay so this is the top space and that's the bottom space so 1 2 3 4 okay now I didn't really write this out in any particular order so don't ask me why did you write 1 2 3 4 5 and then 1 2 3 4 up I don't know why I did that I just did okay okay so there's four spaces that's the point I'm trying to make here there's four spaces and there's five lines okay now depending on which CL we like if I had a pasting thing and I'm like and I stuck it there all these note names would be a certain like all these lines would have certain note names like uh if I had a trouble cluff here this space here would be an F that' be an a that' be a c that' be an e but if I took the base CL and put it there this would be an a that would be a c that would be an e and that would be a g so it all changes so these CLS sort of set the rules for which um notes or where okay so it's really important that you have a good concept of what these cluts do so they basically set the rules for uh that staff okay and they determine a staff by itself can't tell you what notes there are because the notes are indetermined without a cl to tell you what they are does that make sense okay so that's uh the class for now now let's move on okay guys so now I'm going to point out a couple things here I have written every all the basic note names and the says that go with them to remember them for the trouble cloth and the base cloth now I've written them on something called the grand staff now see this brace here that's what it's called it's called a brace so whenever you see this that means that they want this and this together so it's played as one or in other words hands together the right hand here and the left hand here so whenever these notes are going to go together if you don't see the brace and then this is all broken off here and you just see one here and then one there that means it's one line of Music going to the next line of music okay so without this brace this is what joins it together and shows you that this is one line of Music instead of two okay so time goes by the whole thing way so that's called the grand staff it has two two staffs okay together so the right hand left hand now uh the central point to all of these this Mayhem which I will explain don't worry is Middle Sea so Middle Sea is in the smack dab middle of everything so think of this little section here as a road and then we've got little the center lines of the road you know how there broken lines on the road so think of one the first line as middle C all the time so if you see one line floating in the middle here it can be actually up to the top closer to the trle cluff or to the lower down to the bottom that doesn't matter all they're trying to do is tell you to play middle C with your right hand or play middle C with your left hand that's all they're trying to do so if you see one line that's the important thing is one line not two lines or three lines one line if you see one line and then the circle or the note going through it this is a whole note by the way I've drawn just to be simple that is Middle C all the time and anything above middle C goes into the trouble CL anything below middle C goes into the base CL okay so middle C is sort of where they come together and they join so um it goes by the alphabet so as you go up C goes to D which would go to e to f a b just like that so it' be c d e f g and then a b c d e f g just keeps going up so the spaces are note and the lines are note so the the line note here that's what it's called It's called The Line note middle C is on a line note and then D would be on a space note because it has no line it's just in the middle it's in between the two lines that's another note that's D then we go to E which is on this line and then F which is on the space and then we go to the next line and that's G and then we go to the next space and that's a and it goes up and up and up and if you go down you're going backwards in the alphabet so this way you're going forwards in the alphabet this way you're going backwards in the alphabet so this would be g f e d c so we at middle C now below that one backwards would be B and then a and then G and then F and then e and then D and then C it just keeps going down down down down okay so that's how this sort of works now if you actually took this whole thing and you turned it this way it would actually make more sense okay watch this this goes with my right hand and this goes with my left hand as I go this way I go up on the piano because this is one key this would be the next key that would be the next key the next key the next key the next key watch this so I'm at C I'm at D I'm at e f so see how it goes up and down like that and this is my right hand and this is my left hand so as I go right I'll go up and as I go left I'll go down so that's an easy way to look at it and to make sense of IT music would be simpler if it was like this but some guy like you know 500 years ago decided oh let's do it this way and 500 I'm using very Loosely okay okay so think of it like that okay you can turn your music that way and check it out I suggest you do that actually it's pretty good exercise okay but this is the way you actually look at music okay all right so just keep that in mind up is to the right down into the left all right so now the first thing you want to do is memorize uh once you know the keys so this middle C here is going to be the middle C on the piano now if say you wanted to play this F here it would just be the first F above middle C which would be this one right there now if you wanted to play this G here it'd be the first G below middle C that' be this one right there now this is a c as well so it would be the first C below middle C that's right there okay so you just have to sort of look at it that way now uh we have little saying or I have little sayings that I that we uh basically use to figure out to remember how all these things work so that's what's up that so now we're going to do says so say the F the says for the the spaces in in the right hand or the trouble cloth the spaces actually spell out the word f a c e which is face so if you can remember face face the spaces then uh I don't know why I did this this what am I doing like moing a cow who knows anyway so f a c e that's how that works so that's all how you remember the spaces in the trouble clo just remember face fa a c e so it just goes up in that order and it always goes up like that okay so that those are the spaces for the trouble clo now the spaces for the base cloth unfortunately AC ceg doesn't spell a word it would be like a which doesn't really make any sense so I have this little saying that I use I I didn't invent it I have no idea who did I don't think it's on record for who did so anyway so it goes by the name by the say all for a cows for C eat for e and G for grass I guess I should say grass for G so it's all cows eat grass moooo I told my my students I have this little girl and she couldn't remember it and then I'm like all cows eat rocks and she's like cows don't eat rocks they eat grass and then I'm like good so remember that it's all cows eat grass and after that she seemed to be able to remember it because it made this really weird mental image in her mind of cows chewing rocks and that would kind of I don't know that really wouldn't work too well in the digestive system and I wouldn't really want to see that coming out on the other end either oh man that'd be painful okay I back on to this okay so all cows eat grass that's that's basically how you remember the spaces now what you want to do first is you test yourself on these sayings first be ask yourself okay what are the spaces the base CL what are the spaces for the trouble cloth once you know those then you actually want to go and you want to memorize like one or two so that as soon as you look at it you instantly know that uh the note so you don't have to count up or down but this is like the fail safe mechanism that you can always rely on okay that's how this works so you just always rely on this and that's how it's going to H work so learn this first and then you want to memorize each note so you can learn you could do three a day and then what probably within a week or two you would have every single note memorized so really doesn't take long like I have kids knowing all the notes note names in about a week or two and they can they can figure it out themselves and then it takes I don't know maybe a month or so and they get fast ex site reading fast okay so you can do flashcards and you can do these flash cards on the internet I think there's piano Nani or other different sites that you can go to that allow you to do flash cards or you can go buy some now those are the spaces for each CL so spaces for trouble is face and spaces for base cluff is all C you graphs now the the lines for the trle CL go like this e GB d f and that is Every Good Boy Deserves fudge yes I'm glad I'm a boy and I'm glad I'm a good boy where's my fudge now yay yay no I'm not a boy anymore and I like chocolate more than fudge and I like strawberry more than chocolate anyway but there's no s key so it's like all good boys deserve strawberries or Every Good Boy Deserves strawberries anyway doesn't matter so it's Every Good Boy Deserves fudge that's what we're learning here that's for the trouble CL lines so Every Good Boy Deserves fudge got that okay let's move on now people are going to ask why didn't I just say good here I used a different we I used green now why did I use green because it paints a more Vivid image in your mind and Vivid crazy images tend to stick better than like do boring ones like hello my name is Andrew I like I don't like teaching piano who am I kidding I like piano what are you looking at let's learn piano te gladly that's like happily that's not actually how I feel about piano I I love it I love music and I like teaching it so it's not hard for me to get up in the morning and teach piano okay now so the lines on the base CL go GB DF a which I did in my old re-shoot of this videoa okay it doesn't actually make a word okay so the word it made the say that I've come up with is green birds don't fly away that's kind of nice isn't it not green birds don't fly away so think of a little green bird down here on this line and this line isn't a line anymore it's a stick it's a branch and the bird's like twe tweet twe twe TW TW twe twe oh I'm not going to fly away because I'm a green bird tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet okay so green birds don't fly away so there's my quick recap here so my quick recap uh recap goes face for the spaces in the trouble cluff all cowsy grass for the spaces in the base CL Every Good Boy Deserves fudge for the spaces in the trouble cluff and green birds don't fly away for the spaces or the lines in the base CL okay now there's only one thing left okay the last thing that we have to do is um it's going to be something called Ledger line okay now you'll probably see this soon in music it come they come out pretty often and people get scared from them and there's really no reason to think of um a lger line as someone taking a ladder to extend something like say you've got this room here or a house and you just stick a ladder in there and you want to get to another floor or something like that I guess that doesn't even make any sense I guess it's too late what time is it any oh it's 2:30 in the morning sweet anyway okay so I just laugh at how late I get I stay up doing stuff like this I'm weird I couldn't just get up early in the morning and do this I have to do it late at night or really early anyway okay so a ledger line is an extension so as you can see so say we go f a c e and then there's F and then f is the top line here okay so how high up is that on the piano so if this is Middle [Music] C so that's a right there because I went past the first C and I got to F and that would be stopping now as you can see we here that's not all the keys in the piano is it they still all these so where do we fit them in well they're not as commonly played so we don't use we don't draw out all the lines unless we're actually going to use them so these Ledger lines they are just lines that float in space and basically this line here is almost as if there's a whole line added onto it you just count keep counting up and you can place a note in between okay so uh the hard part about them is since they're just floating there people can have a hard time reading and you usually have to count up to memorize to figure out what note you are and I still have to count up if they're really high if they're really high notes I actually have to count up so I'm like counting them because it I just haven't bothered to memorize the ones that are way way up there because you hardly ever see them okay now these ones though the first three are worth memorizing cuz one it's easy to memorize and two uh they're used quite often usually you won't see anything past the second Ledger line sometimes you'll see the third Ledger line and more rarely but still not that un often you'll see like the fourth and the fifth Ledger line use but usually nothing past that okay so what you want to do is you want to just remember this pattern Ace AC okay so Ace think of them as like Aces as they're they're like fighter pilot Aces and they're just like Roger Bravo we're gonna go in for the bombing room now oh look we've got a dog fight going on anyway so just think of them as like flyers they're ases now they're in the sky or whatever right they're not just whatever they're just up out there they're floating so AC e Ace okay now what you're going to do is the Ace comes it just lands this way and you're going to get a first and then C and then e so C is in the middle this is the important sign Okay C is in the middle now look down here I don't know can you see that aha so you couldn't see the a anyway down here okay so down here it's a c e e but which one comes first the E is the first Ledger line here and the a is the first one here the C is the second one here and the C is the second one there so anytime there's two Ledger lines in either direction the second one is C so use that as your kind of home base always remember second Ledger line is C okay this one's a so what you can do is you can just take these first three chunk and just remember that either way it's always in that order but from here the top ones so the top part of Ace is attached to the TR the base club and up here the bottom part of Ace is attached to the travel Club so it's the same pattern but it's just moved okay that's that's it okay so that is my lesson on reading sheet music so what I want you to do learn all these note names the phrases and everything and remember that these are Ledger lines this is called staff together it's called the grand staff this is a trouble cluff this is a base cluff the right hand plays this one the left hand plays this one this is Middle C this is where the staffs join up and you can actually find Ledger lines in the middle as well so that if you wanted to see down here if they wanted a left hand person like say you're playing stuff up way up high and they want the left hand and to play like this F here what they'll do is they'll draw one line for middle C another line for this line and then they'll put a note on top of that and I'll be stretching into here but it's actually written as a line and then another Ledger line which would actually just be this line and then they'll just put the note and it'll be as if it was there okay anyway hopefully that's all helpful so study this really well well and I'll take another picture of this as well and you guys can dissect it and practice it okay it doesn't take very long if you're willing to just focus on it and really get it learned okay doesn't take longer than two weeks two weeks you'll have it and you'll know it okay all right take care