Today, we are going to work it all ledger lines. I got an email asking what is the purpose of notes going higher or lower then a stop and why do they look like that. The answer is this. Here, I drew out a treble clef, which spelled like this T-r-e-b-l-e. Treble clef and the other clef is the base clef, which looks like that which also has lines on it. That looks like this. Let me just draw out five lines. There is your base clef. So now, when you see the note here and you have to keep on going up, you will see this a lot of times. That line right there is your ledger line. So your ledger lines is that little one right there.
Now, the reason why it is a little slash as suppose to the national long, long line is because imagine if you were to actually make the ledger line, the whole line. You know, like if there is really no purpose. Because imagine if you had a melody that went all the way up top here. Could you imagine they are being lined all the way down the music and then all the way back up and it would just be a little bit too much.
So what they have done now is you use ledger lines. So where you might have had a piece of music up here and maybe one down here and then maybe one up here and one here. These notes do continue. So here is your C, , here is a D, here is an E, F, this is a B. Okay, the reason why that is a B is because this note here is a G and this is A. If there is a line space, line space, line space so now imagine they are being something like this. If this were to continue all the way out and then you were to bring this up, you guys know that that is a G because it was line space, line space, line space. So here is your up and there is your G. One more line up would be A and another line up top would be B, here is C and here is D and here is E and it goes up forever and it goes down forever. Therefore being that here is E right here so here is D and here is C and here is B and then here is A and it goes right here.
Now you can never really play up much higher than this. So let me just write this out. Here is E, D, C, B, A. Because think of it, here is C, B, A and then if I were to go one more under, that would be a G. Let us walk up here. Here is F, G, A, B, C, D, E. And so that is why ledger lines only are a little bit of it is part of the actual ledger or of the actual stuff right here. But instead of continuing all the way through, it gets to be a little bit much if you really can continue all the way through. Okay so that is it.
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