How is standard music notation written for bass?
toc Standard notation for bass is written on the bass clef (a.k.a. the “F” clef). The notes on the page are actually written one octave higher than they sound. This is done to avoid using a large number of ledger lines (the short additional lines used to write note below or above a given cleff), the logic being that notes on a cleff are easier to read than notes on ledger lines. Below is a brief introduction to the fundamentals of standard notation. Please note that standard notion is difficult to rend er in ASCII, so you may have to use you imagination a bit to understand some of the illustration. If you’re absolutely cluless about music notation but would like to learn, I heartily reccomend Dave Stewart’s _The Musician’s Guide to Reading & Writing Mu sic_ (San Francisco: GPI/Miller Freeman, 1993. ISBN 0-87930-273-9). The lines and spaces of the bass cleff are lettered.
