This lesson is about how we write notes on a staff. A staff has five lines, going across the page from left to right. Sometimes, we draw notes on the lines. Draw four circles on each of the lines of the staff:

We can also draw notes in the four spaces between the lines. Finish drawing this pattern of notes in the spaces:

Now practice writing notes in all nine positions, like this. Be neat!

To help us find the notes on the piano, we use clefs. One of the clefs is called the bass clef (say it like BASE CLEF), and it looks like a squiggle with two dots:

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Practice drawing some bass clefs here.

The bass clef is also called the “F clef” since it comes from a fancy letter F, something like this:

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Can you draw that fancy F?

The two dots help you find the note F on the line 4 of the staff. Copy the clef and the F notes three times:

When you put five fingers on notes CDEFG, it’s called “C position”. Copy the C position notes two times.

C
D
E
F
G

Play these notes on the piano, first with your left hand, then with your right hand. Try playing in every octave! Now it’s time to play a song: