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Staff:: .:. Piano Layouts .

The document provides an overview of piano notation and how to keep time in music. It explains that music notation uses a grand staff with two staves, the treble clef for the right hand and bass clef for the left. It also describes how measures are used to divide music into chunks of time and that the time signature at the start tells you how many beats are in each measure and which note value receives one beat.

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Staff:: .:. Piano Layouts .

The document provides an overview of piano notation and how to keep time in music. It explains that music notation uses a grand staff with two staves, the treble clef for the right hand and bass clef for the left. It also describes how measures are used to divide music into chunks of time and that the time signature at the start tells you how many beats are in each measure and which note value receives one beat.

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PIANO SELF-TAUGHT NOTES 1

.:. PIANO LAYOUTS .:.

Staff: What music notes are written on


Music notation is written on
Has 4 spaces and 5 lines

Grand staff: Two staves combined to form grand staff


Middle C appears in two different places on the grand staff. Actually, the line that middle C
appears on is the same line. Line between the two staves is removed & two staves were
spaced further apart to make the grand staff easier to read.

Music notation: Is used to record music in written form


In piano, two staves are used

Clef: Signs are used to make each space and line represent a specific white key on the piano
Piano music uses two clef signs

Treble clef: (use right hand)


Also called "G clef." The G clef makes the line that the circular part of the G clef sign wraps
around a G above middle C. From this, you can figure out what the rest of the notes are

Bass clef: (use left hand)


Also called "F clef." The line between the two dots of the F clef is where the F below middle C
goes

* Each section of 7 keys includes a group of 2 black keys & a group of 3 black keys
* Moving to the right on the piano keyboard corresponds with moving the notes up on the staff

.:. KEEPING TIME IN MUSIC .:.

* When playing music, you must know how to keep time. Music is divided into separate chunks of time
called "measures". Measures are separated from each other by a vertical line called a "bar line".

.:. TIME SIGNATURES .:.


- Tells us how a particular piece of music is played
- Tells us how to count the beat of the song
- Located at the beginning of the song
- Consists of two numbers written as a fraction (i.e. 4/4)
- Top number tells how many beats (counts) are in each measure throughout the entire song
- Bottom number tells what type of note receives one beat (count) [i.e. 4 represents a quarter
note]

* To count beat, count “1 and... 2 and…” (# &)

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