Understanding Ledger Lines in the Treble Clef

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Eric Williams and I'm here to tell you about reading music. Okay so you may say, this isn't so bad. Well it gets worse and there are ledger lines that go above the staff and below the staff so not only do you have to memorize e, g, d, b, f, f, a, c, e. But let's say that we make it all the way to the f here at the very top of the staff. If we placed a note sitting on top of the staff on the very top line sitting there, that would be the note g. Then following up around the alphabet you have to draw what you call a ledger line and then draw a note right on the middle of that ledger line and that would be a. Then you could do ledger line with note sitting on top of the ledger and that would be b and it would keep can go e, f, g, a, b, c, d, e, f that way you are seeing that ladder like motion from the alphabet going from low to high. "