Are you finding bass clef notes hard to read?
Hi, I'm Jazer
and here's a video on how to read bass clef notes quickly.
Let's get into it.
So this is a video request by Kms Linds.
Thank you for the question.
Kms Linds asks,
how can you read
bass clef notes
better?
Now I actually have a really quick answer for this question.
I get asked this a lot from students, and parents
bass clef notes.
It tends to be one that people are not so good at because
people often relate better to the treble clef
because the treble clef often has the melody.
So,
when you're looking at a piece of music,
you kind of tracing
the melody as you listen to it.
And the left hand just seems to be this thing that gets
a bit lost
or kind of
a
Hidden from the typical ear out there.
And so that's why people generally are
not so good at reading bass clef, because they
see music in terms of the treble clef, the melody.
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Now do you see as you were listening to that melody?
you were probably
tracing the melody line as opposed to the baseline.
And so just through like
exposing yourself so much more to the treble clef
as opposed to the bass clef,
well guess what?
You're automatically going to be
better at reading the treble clef
as opposed to the bass clef.
So the solution is to read bass clefs
a lot,
like
a lot.
If you want to get good at something,
you've got to do it a lot.
Now having said that,
there are three resources that I personally use
to improve my bass clef, sight reading,
and also for a lot of my students as well.
I use this to help them to get
better at sight reading the bass clef notes.
And here are the three things.
So the first thing would be these flash cards
that you see here.
So these are the Alfred's flashcards.
And you'll see here that on one side of the card,
it will be a notes.
And a on the
other side of the card,
it actually tells you what note it is.
And way on the piano. You play this one.
So I find that this is a really helpful tool
just for
testing yourself or testing,
getting someone else to test you.
So look at what this note is, have a guess
and turn it around to know what it is.
The second resource I use is this
Music Note Teacher.
And what you see here is
a, this kind of a laminated piece of
treble clef and bass clef.
And there is this note thing that you can use,
to slide up and down.
And what happens when you slide up and down
is on the other side,
there's a string that attaches
both of them
on both sides.
So that when you move,
for example, when you move from C to G,
this
note also moves from C to G.
And so
long story short,
what that means is you can test yourself on
what notes
you would like.
So if I wanted to test myself on what that is,
I will move the note to there.
Have a guess.
I guess it's C,
I turn it over,
it's on C.
And if I want,
okay, let's say what note is this one
turn over
and you get,
you get
it on the A.
And the third resource that I use is this
Hal Leonard Student Keyboard Guide
This is a really cool piece,
a long sheet of the
basically the keyboard layout.
So what I do is I actually slot this behind
my piano like this.
Yeah, and it really helps my students to know
which notes are which notes.
Let me show you just close on what that looks like.
So as you'll see here
that the notes correlate
with the piano notes themselves. So...
this C here
is matched up with that C
and you know that C there
is matched up
with this C.
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so this is just a really handy tool.
When you're sight reading any piece or just
generally playing any piece to have
a really quick reference.
So let's say I'm not very sure what this note is over here.
I see this note is on
the bottom space.
I would just come down here
and find it on this bottom space of the base clef.
And that would be, an A
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And also want to add as well if you don't already know this,
the four spaces in the base clef,
are A, C, E, G from bottom to top.
And that actually works out nicely
to
All
cows
eat
grass.
Just a nice little tool
to remember
what notes
are in between
these lines.
So there you go.
Those were some ideas that I have for you
to help you to improve your bass clef sight reading.
The answer is actually quite simple.
Just play a ton.
My challenge to you is to sight read five pieces a day.
Just focusing on the left hand
every single day.
And watch how your bass clef reading will improve.
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