Lesson-6 : Mapping of Tones and Notes : Part -3

Let me summarise the previous learnings :

WCM follows 12 key system for an Octave. Consisting of 7 white keys and 5 black keys in between. Each octave is a repetitive pattern of these 12 keys.

Range division in a piano is based on the reference key called Middle C. Octave starting with Middle C and above are represented using Treble Clef. Octaves below the Middle C are represented using Bass Clef.

In Treble Clef, the bottom most line starts with letter E and proceed in ascending manner F, G etc. etc . in alternate Line and Space manner. Same way in Bass Clef, Bottom most line starts with G and then proceeds in ascending manner.

To find the notes on a stave there are some short cut method, which makes our life easier….

In the Treble Clef… the letters on the lines are E, G, B, D, F . So Remember the Sentence …..

Every Green Bus Drives Fast…..

In Treble Clef, the letters coming in the spaces are F, A, C, E.

That’s it…. Remember the word……… FACE

Same way for Bass Clef, for the letters on Lines, remember the sentence :

Good Boys Deserve Fine Apples

In Bass Clef, for the letters coming in the spaces, remember the sentence :

All Cows Eat Grass

One additional point: the software people use another technique viz. Binary technique in indexing, the “searching from middle" technique.

So my idea is also remember the center line of each clef. In treble clef it is ‘B’ and in Bass Clef it is ‘D’. From this you can find the relative letters either upward or downward…!

Our future discussions, most of the time we may refer these notations, it is better if you could familiarize with them.

- practice yourself to identify a particular note mentioned in a stave

- and find the corresponding letter name mentally

- and its position in the instrument.

- Then relate the sound you hear in the instrument.

(If you could practice so much that by seeing the note in stave, its sound comes to your mind, you have reached the ultimate !!! Most of the musicians working with IR are experts like that …! )

IR is something beyond comprehension..

Even for our normal film songs, He thinks for nearly twenty or more such co-ordinated notes for different instruments at a time and write it down directly on paper. (Symphony writing is still beyond that !)

Creation, Visualization in mind, Dissecting of notes, Writing it on paper…….

no obstruction of flow any where... anytime……

Even assuming that all other skills can be attained by very hard practice & experience…

Can anybody be on Creative mode for all the 24 hours …365 days ....decades together ??? !!!!

Comparatively, our requirement is very simpler…

Just able to read a note at a time .. at our own speed.. and finding a match on the instrument… at our own time & speed…You can attempt it…. Ok..?

At least you shall gain this much confidence…. that , If staff notes are given,

- One can (even if you are not able to do that somebody else can…..) relate and sing/ play the instrument and

- by the same way if somebody sings or some instrument is played, it can be represented back into the staff notes ….!

That's it !