Either click on the piano image to answer, or type the note name on your computer keyboard. Before you can use the keyboard to answer, you must first click on the flash movie to activate it. If you are unsure of an answer, just move your mouse over the piano image below, and you will see hints displayed.
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If you want to focus on sight reading just the lines above and below the staff, check out this tutorial.
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Don't simply try to memorize visually, but memorize these descriptions. In the long run, they give you a better way to internalize the visual information you are given when you look at the staff. If you see that it's the third ledger line below the staff, say to yourself, "third ledger line below". Also, I have a student ("Yes, Deb, this is about you!") who likes to relate her knowledge of the treble clef to her sight reading of the bass clef. This is a mistake because it takes processing time. We don't want to have to think when we are reading music. We want it to be a conditioned automatic response. If you think, "down a third from where it sits on the treble clef", you are making your brain go through an extra step. The goal is to memorize the visual information, so that when you see a given note, you don't have to think. If you are really serious about learning this information quickly, print out the following list and learn it by rote. I'll try to put together a quiz that focuses on this information.
bottom line: G
second line (counting from the bottom): B
middle line: D
second line (counting from the top): F
top line: A
bottom space: A
second space (counting from the bottom): C
second space (counting from from the top): E
top space: G
first space above the staff: B
first space below the staff: F
first ledger line above the staff: C
first ledger line below the staff: E
second ledger line above the staff: E
second ledger line below the staff: C
the space below the first ledger line below the staff: D
the space above the first ledger line above the staff: D
the space below the second ledger line below the staff: B
third ledger line below the staff: A
the space below the third ledger line below the staff: G
the fourth ledger line below the staff: F
the space below the fourth ledger line below the staff: E
the fifth ledger line below the staff: D
the space below the fifth ledger line below the staff: C
the space just above the second ledger line above the staff: F
the third ledger line above the staff: G
the space just above the third ledger line above the staff: A
the fourth ledger line above the staff: B
If you would like to make flash cards to study the bass (say if you cannot get to a computer regularly) you can print these downloadable flash cards for learning bass clef.