The staff is the set of five lines (and four spaces) where musicians write music.
In a staff, notes and silences are represented by symbols which have a set time value, according to its clef. Some vertical lines (called bars) also divide the staff in measures, for a more comfortable writing and reading.
In this graph, you have the representation of the notes do, re, mi, fa, sol, la and ti (the C musical scale) in the three most popular clefs: The first one is the G clef, the most widely used. The second is the F clef, which is used to write lower notes; and the third one is the C clef, which is used for higher notes.
The big C you see to the right of the key symbol represents the tempo of the song. That letter C means 4/4, which is one of the most popular tempos these days (i.e. rock and pop use 4/4), but there are many others.
After it, you have the notes and their duration for you to read.
To read a staff, the first thing you need to learn is to identify which note is represented in each line and space. This depends on the clef the staff is written in, yet one thing remains the same, anyway: You count lines and spaces from the bottom, upwards.
With this information, now you can read a staff. Just take into account that:
+ In the G clef, the second line is sol
+ In the F clef, the fourth line is fa
+ In the C clef, the third line is do
Again, in the graph, you have the representation of the notes do, re, mi, fa, sol, la and ti (the C musical scale) in the three most popular keys.
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