Understanding Ledger Lines in Music

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I am Eric Williams and I am here to tell you about reading music. So there is one more thing to add with the bass clef. We've covered lightly that there are ledger lines above. If you take it up the scale here you go g, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, a and that is not the end of the line. You can write a note write on top of the staff being b and you can do a ledger line and make it a c like this one is. If this treble clef wasn't in the way, you could end up with another ledger line and have an e right there and you can go higher and higher above the bass clef and this is important you can go lower and lower below the treble clef, below the bass clef. So if you are down to g and want to go lower you would have the note f which hangs off the bottom of the staff and you would have to create a ledger line below the staff and that would be. You could have a note hanging off the bottom of that ledger line which would be d and another ledger line would have to be c and just keep going downward and downward lower in pitch. So you need to be aware of that. There are ledger lines above and below the bass clef and there are ledger lines above and below the treble clef. "