Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-05-20 23:47
The ledger lines follow exactly the same logic as the stave. The notes run from A up to G and then A up to G over and over again.
As you have learnt, the five lines on the staff and the four spaces between them are:
Spaces Lines
............F
E
............D
C
............B
A
............G
F
............E
Going upwards from the stave, the space immediately above is G and then the ledger lines are A, C, E, G etc, with spaces B, D, F etc between them.
Going downwards below the stave, the space immediately below is D. then the ledger lines below are C, A, F, D etc (going downwards, so in reverse alphabetical order) and the spaces between them are B, G, E etc.
The term middle C, by the way, usually refers to the C on the first ledger line below the stave. So called because it is the C nearest to the middle of a piano keyboard.
And now, one very important thing that you may not have been taught.
Clarinet music is written at a different pitch from that at which it sounds.
Got that? No, I thought not. It makes no sense, but you need to understand it all the same.
Play the middle C on a piano. (It's a white key near the middle of the keyboard, with no black key immediately to the left of it.)
Play the lowest C on your clarinet. Thumb and three fingers of the left hand.
The notes will be different. The C on the clarinet will sound like the Bb on the piano. (That's the nearest black key to the left of the middle C on the piano.) To get the same note as the piano C, you have to play D (thumb and two fingers) on the clarinet.
Why?
Just because.
You have to get used to this. It's the same for saxes, trumpets, ("french") horns and some more obscure instruments; their music is written differently from how it sounds.
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
Post Edited (2006-05-20 23:53)
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