Learn bass clef...?

Question

I heard is very easy, but it's not easy for me. I've been playing trumpet for 3 & 1/2 years. I had ask me teacher (7th grade) if I could play the baritone. The second half of 7th grade and all of 8th grade, I've been playing treble clef.

I'm going to high school, and have to learn it in 2 weeks. Any links, or tricks. I'm a great euphoniumist (lol, I know) who is stuck on treble clef.

Answer 1

The way that helps me the most is just ignoring the lines and pretending everything just got dropped down. For example - the G is actually where an E would be on treble clef. If you just learn to do this it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Learning different clefs isn't too hard because the notes are still in the same order (thank god lol).

Answer 2

It's 2 notes lower than treble. My friend taught me this for when I had to conduct cause i was concertmaster. He was the second chair cello and knew the differences well.

Answer 3

For me, bass clef was not easy (I played piano for 4 years so I know the struggling). As the person above me said, use the mnemonic "All Cars Eat Gas" or some other saying like that using the ACEG. These are the spaces from bottom to top. For the lines, from bottom to top, use the mnemonic "Good Boys Do Fine Always" or something like that.

But to really master it, you just practice. During the 4 years that I had to use bass clef, I had to always count. Pretty pathetic I know. But that's how you learn. Thank goodness I don't need to know it anymore since I chose violin.

Answer 4

Just comes with practice. I can read both treble and bass, but bass much faster (timpanist).

Just remember, All Cars Eat Gas. That's the spaces going up. That's all I need to remember if I forget, but know I can just look at a piece and read it.

Answer 5

Memorize the sentences Good Boys Do Fine Always and All Cows Eat Grass.

From bottom to top, the lines on the bass clef are G, B, D, F, A, and the spaces are A, C, E, G. When I first took piano lessons my teacher had me remember the order with those sentences. Any sentence or phrase where the words started with the right letters would work, as long as you keep track of which is for lines and which is for spaces.

Visually, remember that F is the line between the two dots beside the clef itself, G is the bottom line, and A is the top line. At first you will have to "count" up or down from these lines to figure out the notes in between, but the more times you do this the faster it will just come to you that the space below the dots is E, or whatever.