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I've been looking on the net for the past half hour for a sheet that explains what the notes below middle C are when played on a treble clef but can't find any. Anyone have any links i could use?

There is a really good game on line called "Grand staff defender" this will teach you the notes really quickly!

I'm not sure I clearly understand this question. Are you talking about reading notes on ledger lines above or below a staff with a treble clef? Or are you talking about the transition from reading a staff with a treble clef to another staff with a different clef, which is the common (but not universal) arrangement of the piano grand staff?

like this?

Yea, I took a printout of the above and below notes.. handy to have lying around when learning the positions

You would encounter a single staff for other instruments or voice but rarely for piano. Wayne's illustration is correct.

John


John

Awesome thanks Wayne that was exactly what I was looking for

I would use tackle reading those notes by using intervallic reading. Then no matter how high or low the ledger lines get, you should be able to identify which key to hit based on the interval distance between the current note and the last note.

If you want practice drilling on just the notes on ledger lines, you can set up Presto Keys to do just those notes.

An unfortunate consequence of my recent piano hiatus was that I lost speed at recognizing notes in the "outer reaches", and so I sprang for the paid version so I could play the game on my little MIDI keyboard. I'm having a lot of fun with it!

There is also a free version, but you have to click on an on-screen keyboard instead of plugging in a MIDI one.

Yes, the way to go is interval training. I was taught to think of two anchors and go from there. Treble B (center of treble clef) and Bass D (center of bass clef) This prepares us for other clefs as well. I encountered this when I was trying to compose a viola solo. (C clef)

If you look at it, it's really the same as reading the bass clef. I think the trick is to not get psyched out by the fact that the bass clef isn't shown.