The staff is formed by 5 horizontal lines<\/b>, forming 4 spaces between them. The musical notes (C, D, E, F, G, A, B)<\/b> and the different musical signs can be placed either above the lines themselves or in or near the spaces.<\/p>\n
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The function of the staff is to contain all symbols, notes, sounds and rests<\/b>. Note that the lines and spaces define the pitch of the sounds, i.e. the tones<\/b>.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of the staff we find the clef<\/b>. Thanks to it, we will know how to read a score. The most commonly used is the treble cle<\/b>f, which is placed on the second line, counting from the bottom. Precisely on this line the note G<\/b> will be placed, and from there the other notes are placed.<\/p>\n
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If the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B are put in the spaces or lines consecutively, when you reach B, the sequence starts again, depending on the range of the instrument.<\/p>\n
The treble clef is widely used by guitarists, while in the case of pianists, the bass clef<\/b> is the most used. In this case, its root starts on the fourth line from the bottom of the staff. The F note will always go in this line and the other notes in their musical order as usual.<\/p>\n
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In addition to knowing each of the musical notes, it is necessary to know the rhythm<\/b> of each of them. The rhythm will be given by the rounds, whites, crotchets, eighth notes<\/b>…<\/p>\n
These figures are formed with a black or white dot and a stick called a stem. Let’s see the duration times according to their characteristics.<\/p>\n
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Black:<\/strong> a time<\/p>\n White<\/b>: two strokes<\/p>\n Eighth note<\/b>: It lasts half the length of the quarter note. They can be drawn together for easy reading.<\/p>\n These three are the most common, but we can also find:<\/p>\n Round<\/b>: four strokes (no stem)<\/p>\n Sixteenth note<\/b>: Lasts half the length of an eighth note.<\/p>\n Fuse<\/b>: It lasts half of the sixteenth note.<\/p>\n Semibreve<\/b>: Lasts half the length of the fuse.<\/p>\n It should be noted that when drawing the stem<\/b>, if the point is below the third line, the stem is drawn upwards. If, on the other hand, the point is above the third line, the stem is drawn downwards.<\/p>\n There are many elements that we can find in a staff. All of them are related to each other, in addition to the ones we have mentioned, there are the measures, rests, slurs, dotted notes<\/b>…which we will come back to in another article. They all relate to each other to encode all the qualities of sound, the raw material of a musical work.<\/p>\n The most important thing is to do exercises of reading staves<\/b>, to get the necessary fluency and to assimilate concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The staff is formed by 5 horizontal lines, forming 4 spaces between them. The function of the staff is to contain all symbols, notes, sounds and rests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articulo-en","category-blogenglish"],"yoast_head":"\n