Musical Tips
Below you will find some great musical tips to help you with your lessons:
Where should a treble clef be positioned?
A treble clef (sometimes known as the G clef) tells you that the note G is on the second line from the bottom of the staff. See how the curly part of the treble clef wraps around that line?
Instruments that generally use this clef include:
- Saxophone
- Trumpet
- Clarinet
- Flute
Where should a bass clef be positioned?
A bass clef (sometimes known as the F clef), tells you that F is located on the fourth line from the bottom of the staff. Similar to the treble clef the bass clef also has a little curly thing that wraps around the line designated for F in this case.
Instruments that generally use this clef include:
- Tuba
- Trombone
- Baritone
- Bass
How long should a stem be?
Normally, the length of a note's stem in music notation should be three and a half spaces. An easier way to work out stem length though, is that wherever the pitch position of the note-head on the stave (staff), the stem needs to go up or down an octave. When the note-head is positioned with two ledger (leger) lines or more, the stem always extends to the middle line of the stave (staff).
