How to Read Music Easily By Combining Bass and Treble Clefs

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: If you are learning to play the piano

   What if the music for the two hands were the same?! This can be arranged quite simply.
   
   What you do is doctor your pupils' music with a red biro going over the bottom (E) line in the treble clef and on the top (A) line in the bass clef, and adding a red line for middle C, as shown in Diagram One.
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   Step 2: the chances are that you learn to read the right hand music (treble clef) quite quickly

   I've found that most pupils soon learn to read both right hand and left hand.
   
   You have to be careful of course to play in the right octave; the G line in the left hand is not for the G just below middle C, but the next one down.
   
   What of the spaces? You may find your own way of learning these, but the easiest way is probably to read the note on the next line. , The same trick can be used here: the first three ACE can be coloured red and then go back to black.
   
   So, for example the note on the 4th ledger line in the right hand is obviously G, and the not on the 3rd in the left hand is A.
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   Step 3: but then struggle with the left hand music (bass clef).

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   Step 4: The point is that the black lines are GBDF in both hands (and the red ones ACE).

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   Step 5: Another problem that arises later on is reading notes on ledger lines - the short lines above the treble clef or below the bass clef.

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