Brainlag Plus

Four clefs and enharmonic notes

Music theory, Pitch and transposition, 14 minutes

Reading notes in the treble, bass, alto and tenor clefs, with ledger lines above and below, and spelling the same sound in two ways.

Each clef marks one note

A clef fixes one note on the stave, and every other note is counted from it.

The treble clef curls round the second line: that line is G above middle C.
The bass clef has two dots either side of the fourth line: that line is F below middle C.
A C clef points to the line that is middle C. Centred on the middle line it is the alto clef; on the fourth line it is the tenor clef, new at Grade 5.

Middle C in the treble clef: one ledger line below

Middle C in the alto clef: the middle line

Middle C in the tenor clef: the fourth line up

Middle C in the bass clef: one ledger line above

The rest of this lesson and its 5 practice questions are in Plus.

Screen 1 of 5, free to read.