the notes are above middle C ( the C near the middle of a piano keyboard).

On the line above the middle line of the staff, commonly called the tenor clef. a sign on a stave ( the five lines on which music. The bass and treble clefs were also once moveable, but it is now very rare to see them anywhere but in their. While the treble clef and the bass clef form the 10 lines in the grand. All of the notes on this staff are middle C.

It's called 'middle C' because it is in the middle of the piano. On the middle line of the staff, commonly called the alto clef. The reason it has this term is because where this note is located on the grand staff. Notice that 'middle C' is on the first ledger line below the treble clef (stave) and is also on the first ledger line at the top of the bass clef (stave). The C clef today is commonly used at two positions on the staff: The C clef, in which the center of the bracket to the right of the clef’s thick vertical line is positioned on the line that corresponds to C, normally middle C. Middle C for the treble clef is the first ledger line below the staff and for bass clef it is the first ledger line above the staff. Middle C uses one ledger line below staves with treble clefs, and one ledger line above staves with bass clefs. The treble clef is used for notes above middle C. The bass clef, or F clef, in which two dots are shown either side of the line corresponding to F, normally the F below middle C. Clefs are the symbol at the start of every system that give the notes on the staff context that is, the clef tells you which note of the scale applies to each line or space of the staff.įor example, the treble clef is also known as a G clef, because the spiral shape in the middle centers around G, normally the one above middle C.

Middle c on treble clef