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Question:The notes on the staff for the bass clef:
Lines- Great Big Dreams For America (GBDFA)
Spaces- All Cows Eat Grass or All Cars Eat Gas (ACEG)


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The notes on the staff for the bass clef:
Lines- Great Big Dreams For America (GBDFA)
Spaces- All Cows Eat Grass or All Cars Eat Gas (ACEG)

Bass will have a backwards c lookin symbol and trable will have a stick with a swirl kinda looking thing.

The Bass lines are (GBDFA)
The Spaces are (ACEG)

The Treble lines are (EGBDF)
The Spaces are (FACE)

when your reading it off of paper, there is almost always a clef sign that indicates whether it's bass or treble, when you're hearing it, it doesn't matter. See, the clefts are simply there to make the performer read it easier. It's quite possible, and even normal, for some performers to read everything in bass cleft- even really high notes, and for others to read bass cleft notes with the treble cleft. Some people even use different clefts completely like the alto or tenor cleft.

Regardless of the cleft, the notes are still the same, it's still an "A"- and it's still at this certain octave. It could be in many different clefts and still be correct, but will always sound exactly the same.

A backwards type of C that looks like a deformed parenthesis

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That kind of a thing with little dots after it

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