Understanding Ledger Lines Video

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Understanding Ledger Lines

A treble clef, in the five lines so that creates your staff, okay. Now the way that it works is that a staff only has five lines, okay. Okay, so now, instead it only has five lines, the way that it works is that if a piece music goes higher than this note, you suddenly don’t have to make the staff expand but upwards and downwards if you have to. Now remember if a piece of music or if a note going down that’s going down to the base. Okay, if the note is going up, that’s going towards treble. So the way that it works is that if I were to expand this, I can very well draw a whole line across here, okay. Or if I wanted to go down, I would draw another line going across here and then expand the whole staff all the way up and all the way down. The thing is that, when you’re reading a piece of music, you would never really be able to keep on track with what every line is doing, okay. Like here, I have like eight, nine and ten lines down, you would never be able to read it in a piece of music, there’s too much information there. You need to know where your baseline is. Like here is A, okay. You would never know where that line is. So, now what ledger lines do is instead of putting the whole line across, all it does, is it puts a little niche of a line. So if this note is going down to here, instead of doing a whole line going across it just gives you a little line and so I’m going to erase this part and then there is your ledger line. Okay, now I’m going to erase the top here too. So here is your five main lines and everyone may know that it’s “Every Good Boy Does Fine,” right?—EGBDF and if you don’t know then just refer back to my other videos where I explained the notes on the staff. But here you have “Every Good Boy Does Fine,” if I were to go lower than this line right here, once again I would just put it another ledger line and another one given even lower and that’s it and that’s all ledger lines do is that make it legible so that you can literally go all the way down. You know, if I wanted to, I could draw line all the way across here and all of these ledger lines would connect. But it just makes it more visual, and the same thing going on, so that this note here is F, okay. Oh wait, I’m sorry. This note I was looking at the wrong note. This note here is F, this note is G. If I want to go higher than G, I would just use a little ledger and go to the next line which is A, the next space which is B and then next line again which is C. And so I’m going to show you this literally, on my desktop where you guys will actually be able to see what it is that I’m talking about. So let me go here and let me take this and go like this. All right, here is ledger lines right here, now let’s take this note. All right, here’s your E, I want to zoom up and let me go like this, okay. I’m going to take this note, this E and I’m going to move up. Here’s a G, here’s A, B, here’s a C, D, E, F, G. Now watch what happens when I go up. There’s my ledger line, see it. Zoom in, there’s your ledger line. There’s you’re A. Here’s a B and there’s a C, all right. So if I were to go down, here’s a G, F, E, here’s a D, here’s a C, here’s a B, here’s an A. And so notice all those ledger lines what they view and that is the piece music that much more easier, okay and let me draw the five lines to make a stave. Now, this note is E, okay. And the way that when you start the music is that it goes up one letter at a time so this is E, the next space is going to be F. And then it just walks up the alphabet, so the next line is going to be G. And then after G, there is only seven notes in music, A, B, C, D, E, F and G. After this G it goes right back to A, okay this is a seven notes away from this A and then not to get too confused but being it is in archive video that if you don’t understand it, you can always go backward and then watch it again. Is that if I take this keyboard and I say that there’s only seven notes in music—well look. This note right here, let’s see this one, this note here is an A. So if I walk up, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A. It just repeats again A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, so we repeat it again—A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A. So here you have, this piano is only seven notes that is just repeated over, and over and over again. So my friend says you’re a good teacher. Tell your friend I think that he or she is a good student. All right, so let me turn this back and we go back to the board here. So we are have A, B, C, D, E, F and G, there’s only seven notes in music. So here we got E is on the first line, the first line on a treble clef is E, okay. Then the next the first space is F, the next line is G, the next is A, now the reason it’s why it’s A and not H is because there is only seven notes in music. There’s no H, it’s A, B, C, D, E, F, G after G, it goes right back to A. So here we have A, the next line is going to be B. The next line is C, D, so walk up the alphabet E, F, and G. Now, here is where the actual ledger line comes in. Here I’m at a G right here, which if I were to write that down in a piece of music, it will be that note, okay, let me do it in black so that you guys can understand or can kind of see it. So the camera picks it up a little better. Here let me do it in black. Okay, there’s the note G in a piece of music. If I take that under G and I go up, it would be up here to the next line. Now, like I said in a ledger lines you don’t want the whole line because that is confusing because then now you have six lines here instead of five so. Let’s take that out and the way that ledger lines work is that you only add the line for that one little section of the note. And the same here is that if I were to go down or roll right like here—let me go higher. Here is the next space, so here’s a G, the next line of course as you would know by now here’s or well—that gets confusing, but here’s G right here and this next note is A and this next space of course would be B. So let’s take that and I would like to try something new here, let me do a picture of my desktop. This is the first that I’m doing this. There you have it. This note is A if I were to move up, let’s say that I move up to here, if I want to move up from this A, there’s a B. There’s a C, okay, so there you could actually see literally here is A, let me, I can’t believe it, here’s A, G, A, B, C, and so like I said four there’s your first line on treble clef, okay let me try to do this—that’s not working, okay so here’s your first line on treble clef there’s you’re A and just walk up every note—F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C and it continues forever and all the way down okay so I want to break.

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A treble clef, in the five lines so that creates your staff, okay. Now the way that it works is that a staff only has five lines, okay. Okay, so now, instead it only has five lines, the way that it works is that if a piece music goes higher than this note, you suddenly don’t have to make the staff expand but upwards and downwards if you have to.

Now remember if a piece of music or if a note going down that’s going down to the base. Okay, if the note is going up, that’s going towards treble. So the way that it works is that if I were to expand this, I can very well draw a whole line across here, okay. Or if I wanted to go down, I would draw another line going across here and then expand the whole staff all the way up and all the way down.

The thing is that, when you’re reading a piece of music, you would never really be able to keep on track with what every line is doing, okay. Like here, I have like eight, nine and ten lines down, you would never be able to read it in a piece of music, there’s too much information there. You need to know where your baseline is. Like here is A, okay. You would never know where that line is. So, now what ledger lines do is instead of putting the whole line across, all it does, is it puts a little niche of a line. So if this note is going down to here, instead of doing a whole line going across it just gives you a little line and so I’m going to erase this part and then there is your ledger line. Okay, now I’m going to erase the top here too.

So here is your five main lines and everyone may know that it’s “Every Good Boy Does Fine,” right?—EGBDF and if you don’t know then just refer back to my other videos where I explained the notes on the staff. But here you have “Every Good Boy Does Fine,” if I were to go lower than this line right here, once again I would just put it another ledger line and another one given even lower and that’s it and that’s all ledger lines do is that make it legible so that you can literally go all the way down.

You know, if I wanted to, I could draw line all the way across here and all of these ledger lines would connect. But it just makes it more visual, and the same thing going on, so that this note here is F, okay. Oh wait, I’m sorry. This note I was looking at the wrong note. This note here is F, this note is G. If I want to go higher than G, I would just use a little ledger and go to the next line which is A, the next space which is B and then next line again which is C.

And so I’m going to show you this literally, on my desktop where you guys will actually be able to see what it is that I’m talking about. So let me go here and let me take this and go like this. All right, here is ledger lines right here, now let’s take this note. All right, here’s your E, I want to zoom up and let me go like this, okay.

I’m going to take this note, this E and I’m going to move up. Here’s a G, here’s A, B, here’s a C, D, E, F, G. Now watch what happens when I go up. There’s my ledger line, see it. Zoom in, there’s your ledger line. There’s you’re A. Here’s a B and there’s a C, all right.

So if I were to go down, here’s a G, F, E, here’s a D, here’s a C, here’s a B, here’s an A. And so notice all those ledger lines what they view and that is the piece music that much more easier, okay and let me draw the five lines to make a stave. Now, this note is E, okay. And the way that when you start the music is that it goes up one letter at a time so this is E, the next space is going to be F. And then it just walks up the alphabet, so the next line is going to be G.

And then after G, there is only seven notes in music, A, B, C, D, E, F and G. After this G it goes right back to A, okay this is a seven notes away from this A and then not to get too confused but being it is in archive video that if you don’t understand it, you can always go backward and then watch it again. Is that if I take this keyboard and I say that there’s only seven notes in music—well look.

This note right here, let’s see this one, this note here is an A. So if I walk up, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A. It just repeats again A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, so we repeat it again—A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A. So here you have, this piano is only seven notes that is just repeated over, and over and over again. So my friend says you’re a good teacher. Tell your friend I think that he or she is a good student. All right, so let me turn this back and we go back to the board here.

So we are have A, B, C, D, E, F and G, there’s only seven notes in music. So here we got E is on the first line, the first line on a treble clef is E, okay. Then the next the first space is F, the next line is G, the next is A, now the reason it’s why it’s A and not H is because there is only seven notes in music. There’s no H, it’s A, B, C, D, E, F, G after G, it goes right back to A.

So here we have A, the next line is going to be B. The next line is C, D, so walk up the alphabet E, F, and G. Now, here is where the actual ledger line comes in. Here I’m at a G right here, which if I were to write that down in a piece of music, it will be that note, okay, let me do it in black so that you guys can understand or can kind of see it. So the camera picks it up a little better.

Here let me do it in black. Okay, there’s the note G in a piece of music. If I take that under G and I go up, it would be up here to the next line. Now, like I said in a ledger lines you don’t want the whole line because that is confusing because then now you have six lines here instead of five so. Let’s take that out and the way that ledger lines work is that you only add the line for that one little section of the note.

And the same here is that if I were to go down or roll right like here—let me go higher. Here is the next space, so here’s a G, the next line of course as you would know by now here’s or well—that gets confusing, but here’s G right here and this next note is A and this next space of course would be B. So let’s take that and I would like to try something new here, let me do a picture of my desktop. This is the first that I’m doing this.

There you have it. This note is A if I were to move up, let’s say that I move up to here, if I want to move up from this A, there’s a B. There’s a C, okay, so there you could actually see literally here is A, let me, I can’t believe it, here’s A, G, A, B, C, and so like I said four there’s your first line on treble clef, okay let me try to do this—that’s not working, okay so here’s your first line on treble clef there’s you’re A and just walk up every note—F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C and it continues forever and all the way down okay so I want to break.

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