For this next example, I've placed the treble clef on a more traditional five line staff which is what you're going to be generally seeing whenever you play a song written in sheet music. Remember, keep your eyes on the notes not on your hands. Now, press pause and you try to sight read this on your own with finger 2 starting on G, and then say out loud how the notes are moving as you play. Like this: We'll go start, repeat, step down, step up, step up, repeat, step down, step up.

What I'd like you to do is say out loud how the notes are moving as you play. So, take your right hand finger 2, place it on treble G, and then we'll try and play these notes. So you can see that over that first treble G you'll see a finger 2. So when you sight read you'll often see over certain notes a number which tells you which finger should be playing that note. A G A Now let's try to play down on the piano. Now we're going above G which is what? That's right it's an A. Since we know any note on this line is G, we can say G, G, now we're gonna go a step below G which would be what? Can you tell me? If you said F you're correct. Now let's do it one more time and this time say the letter names. Ready? Start, repeat, step down, step up, step up, repeat, step down, step up.

Now, let's go through one note at a time, and can you say with me the steps, skips, and repeats? So we'll say start for the first note. With this, this, and this being a step above the line. This one's below than the line, so it's not a G. Can you point with me? We've got one here, here. Can you point to all the notes that are actually on the G line? Let's find them all.

Now some of these notes are on the line, some are below it, some are above it. So anytime you see a note on the treble G line, this is the note you'll play. My middle C is this yellow, which makes my treble G right here with the blue. So as you can see for sight reading today, we have a treble clef, and recall that any time we have a treble clef what that's telling us is any note on this line that goes right through the middle of the treble clef swirl This line is the G line. Let's come to the Clefs of Insanity to get started. See? The Clefs of Insanity! Ahahahahaha! Okay, I have no idea what just got into me there. 'See?' 'The Cliffs of Insanity!' No, no, no, not cliffs, clefs. Today we're taking our site reading skills another step further by adding clefs.

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