How to Learn Bass Clef Notes

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Tom Kenaston. I'm a singer/songwriter composer, living in West Palm Beach, and also New York City. This clip is going to be how to learn to read bass clef notes. Alright, now, stay with me. This is called a musical staff. The top line is called the treble clef, the bottom line is called the bass clef. Generally, if we're looking at the piano, this is going to be write hand, this is going to be left hand. The bass clef is also known as the S clef. So, you'll see it's a series of lines and spaces. This little dot, right here, which is part of the bass clef, that is centered on the F. This line represents F, which is a note on the piano. And we'll show you those later. Now, all you need to think about is the alphabet. Starting with the F, the next letter in the alphabet would be G, and that's the space. So each thing, each line and space represents a note. Here's a note, a note, a note, a note, a note, a note, a note, a note, a note. F, G, A. We're going down in reverse order. F, E, D, C, B, A, G. Now let's do that from the bottom up, starting with the G, which we just talked about. G, A, and then from here, you really just want to think the alphabet. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and then it starts over again at A. On the piano and in music, there is no G, H, there's no H. Another trick that I learned as a kid was G, B, D, F, A. Those are the names of these lines. We're skipping spaces now. And we use a little acronym; Good Boys Do Fine Always, so you know, when you're six years old, that's a good way of learning that. And as far as the spaces go, you have A, C, E, and G. A Cat Eats Grass. I just made that up. This is Tom Kenaston, and this has been how to read the bass clef notes."