Bar-Lines, Measure and Leger-Lines
5 Nov
To make reading and counting Music Note easier, music note is divided with vertical lines on Stave called Bar-Lines. Bar-Lines help us to show the Rhythm (more on this in next lesson). The first Note after a Bar-Line is normally played or sung a little more strong than others.
The space between two Bar-Lines is called one Bar or Measure. Each Measure or one Bar contains a certain number of Beats.
The end of a piece of Music Note is always marked with a double Bar-Lines.
Most music instruments and singer’s voices have more Notes than can be shown on the five lines and four spaces of Stave. These Notes are written in the spaces above and below Stave and on short lines called Leger Lines (some called it Ledger Lines).
Some Notes overlap and appear on both Staves. This is particularly important for players of music instruments which use both Staves (G- and F-Clef) like commonly found on Piano or Keyboards. Knowing how these Staves relate each other will help you to understand music for other instruments and voices.
The Note called “Middle C” (roughly in the middle of Piano or Keyboard) is on the first Leger Line below Treble Stave and on the first Leger Lines above Bass Stave.
Previous Lesson: How Notes are named and written
Next Lesson: Beats and Time Signatures
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