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Bass clef, a musical journey

Are you really interested in musical journey? Are you a music lover person? Do you love to know how people learn music through clef art then you must read this super amazing article about bass clef. 

What is bass clef?

Have we ever wonder how people can read the musical language, or do we know what it is called? Or do we know why the piano is divided into two parts? As we know, the bass is a musical instrument, and clef is a French word used for the language to play bass. Some notes, lines, and space represent them. The Bass clef is mainly used to notate pitches. So the symbol which appears at the very beginning of any musical staff is called clef. It is imperative because it tells us about the starting musical note found in each line.

Why a bass clef is a helpful tool?

We can easily read the starting notes to know how to start the music after every line and space. With bass clef, we can read high pitches too. Clef also tells us which part should be played with the right hand and which should be played with the left hand.

How to read bass clef?

Learning bass clef notes is an important skill. Before going toward how to read bass clef? remember that bass clef stave is made up of 5 horizontal lines. For right-hand bass clef is drawn on the line or the space between 2 lines. Secondly, the rhyme will help us to remember the bass clef. Usually, it is recommended to memorize the rhymes, but if they cannot, then notes between the lines and written on the line can help.

Music is easier to read and write if most of the notes fall on the staff and few ledger lines have to be used. Clef indicates middle C.

What is bass clef staff? 

Bass clef starts from A C E, and G. When a note is placed on the bottom space, the musician knows to play or sing the pitch A. If the note is on a higher space, we can count it and then find the corresponding letter. So if our note is on the third space, we can count over three letters in the sequence. In this case, the note is E because E is the third letter in the sequence.

The best way to learn the sequence is to name it and make our memorable sentence. 

Conclusion: 

There are 2 playing bass clef, and one uses the rhyme and identifies each note. The second is read by the interval method. However, always use the first method because it is easy for beginners. After getting to the know-how of this method, jump to the interval method. Bass clef needs much practice. Bass clef is also known as F clef because they both are synonyms.  

Bass clef is used for bass guitars, double bass, bassoon and trombone, tuba, timpani. It is also used for a baritone horn when it is written at a concert pitch. Sometimes for the lowest pitch, we also use bass clef. 

Also, when the F clef is placed on the fifth line, it is called a sub-bass clef. Overall, clef makes it easy to write musical language and notes.