Hello and welcome to the music show. My name is Walt Ribeiro and this week, I am going to be showing everyone how to read bass on piano. Last week, we touched upon the treble cleft. This week, we are going to be talking about the bass cleft. So what the two do is a treble clef is for higher pitches, bass cleft is for lower pitches. Okay, so now we are going to go real quick over the notes on the bass for those that do not know and never going to go look and how they line up in the piano. So really quick notes on the bass, go starting with this space underneath the first line is F, so it goes up every letter. F G A B C D E F G A and if you want to count it by just the lines, you go G B D F A. And for the spaces, it goes F A C E G.
So here, what I have is that I simply combined both the treble cleft and the bass cleft. So now, as the music gets higher, you can see that it starts to get into the treble cleft. And as the music gets lower in bass, it goes into the bass clefts. So now, we have all this on words that there is just note in the middle between the two clefts that is referred to as middle C and it is called off because it is literally on the middle of both clefts. And so when you are playing piano, what happens is that the bass cleft is usually referring to what you do with your left hand and your right hand. Being told what to do by reading the treble cleft. So I am going to put it right here, RH for right hand, LH for left hand. Remember this is for piano, so now last week in how to read music, I touched upon how every line in every note is a different pitch.
Okay, so now here we have a piano that I am not going to hold up the whole time but right here are the notes here and here is the middle C. So the notes below it, part in bass cleft, the notes above it are in treble cleft. All right, so now, I have been holding it up just a matter of that and I drew it on the board. So here, you have the notes and like that you would play the piano. So here is middle C, all right, let us say this is middle C here, which would be right in the middle of the piano here. Okay, so we have this middle C here and every note above it and below it is going to be one letter without the sharps and flats. I will get to that in a little bit but here, we have the notes going up and going down. It is the same, everything just goes down, F E D C and then B. So now, how does this work?
Well, here is the middle C here, which is right here. These are the same note. This is not how you apply it. This is how you read it. Now, if I am going to go down to this B, it is the same as me reading it. Going down to this B and then there is your A and there is your G F E D C B and then it keeps going down. Now this black note do not really wear right there. That is something different but just for now, that is the concept of reading notes on treble and bass. What I would like to do, just a quick wheel of trick is that I always go by the middle line. So for example, in treble cleft right here, the middle line is B and then I find every note from where that B is. In bass cleft, the middle line is D right there. I find every subsequent pitch all of that D so if I go one up from that D, it is going to be E. If I go one below that D, it is C, if I go three up, it is G and so on, D E F G.
Okay, so now real quick, I want to talk about what we refer to as octaves. C key A B E F, octaves, what octaves are that the pitch C and I am going to base everything to C because it is easy. Is that the pitch C repeats over and over again throughout a piano. This sound does not really show it but let I will show you through this. You have here three C. It repeats over and over again off throughout the piano. There is one, two, three, four, five, five or six octaves on this keyboard and so what that is telling you is that every time that you look at the keyboard, you will notice that there is three black keys and there is two black keys. It follows a pattern, one, two, three and then if this were to continue, it would have one too. So here is two, three black keys, one, two, three, t
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