Understanding Parts Of a Music Staff

Lines

A music staff has 5 lines. Each line has a specific note (EGBDF). They all represent a sound in music. To remember the notes on a line you say Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge!!!

Spaces

A music Staff has 4 spaces. Each space has a specific note (FACE). They all represent a sound just like every note in a line represents a sound. To remember the notes in a space you say FACE. As you can see FACE rhymes with SPACE.

Treble Clef

A Treble Clef is a clef placing G above middle C on the second-lowest line of the staff. A Treble Clef always comes before the Music Notes and Time Signature.

Time Signature

Time signatures define the amount and type of notes that each measure contains

Double Bar Line

A Double Bar Line is a symbol in musical notation used to separate two sections or phrases of music, and to start and end a musical piece.

Bar Line

A Bar Line is a vertical line used in a musical score to mark a division between bars

Measure

A Measure is a measurement of time that contains a specific number of pulses defined by a time signature. A measure contains a natural division of strong beats and weak beats.

​

​

All The Parts Of A Music Staff!!!

In a Music Staff we have

Lines

Spaces

Treble Clefs

Double Bar Lines

Bar Lines &

Measures

​