How Do You Understand Clarinet Music Sheets?
Music is written in note form on staves, which are a series of horizontal lines and spaces. The staves have two or more vertical dividing lines along their length and it is these separated areas which are called “measures” in music terminology. Different instruments play the notes differently even though they may be on the same lines or spaces and this depends on whether the instrument is a bass-clef (tuba, trombone, etc.) or treble-clef (clarinet, saxaphone, trumpet, etc.) instrument. The clarinet is part of the treble-clef series of musical instruments. Orient the music page with the top facing away from you and the bottom edge facing toward you. Identify the first horizontal line on the bottom of the staff. In treble-clef music, as it will be for a piece of clarinet music, the far bottom line is the location for the note “E” on the staff. Move your eyes up to the next horizontal line and memorize that this second line up is the location for the note “G” on the staff. Continue moving
