 
Hello. my name is Rossella and today I'm
going to teach you how to write
the C clefs. If you want to revise what clefs are and
how to write them, click on the links
below and enjoy my previous videos.
In music, there are 7 clefs: treble, bass and 5 C clefs.
Soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor and baritone.
Oh, no! Other 5 symbols to learn!
No need for drama here. Good news!
Their symbol is the same and it looks
like a B
with a double stick. A handwritten
version of it
would look like this.
You can also write it this way,
this way,
or this way like, a k.
Now, if the symbol is the same for 5 clefs,
how can we tell which of them we have on our stave?
What is the difference for instance
between a tenor
or an alto clef if they look the same?
Maybe the name is written close to the symbol
Oh, I wish it was.
Perhaps we know the music and through the tune we can guess the clef
If so, what about the music we don't know,
how can we ever sight-read it?
I've got it I know how it depends on where it's written
Excellent! Every clef occupies a specific
place on a stave
so it all depends on which line we write
the symbol.
In order we have: soprano,
mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor and baritone
Now, which keynote do you think these C
clefs refer to?
C! Brilliant, you clever people!
They are C clefs because they tell us
where C
is. And that C is middle C
To find it, we must look at the line
where the two bubbles of our bees meet.
5 lines
for 5 clefs for 5 middle Cs.
So here is the middle C
in the soprano clef; middle C in the
mezzo-soprano clef;
another middle C in the alto clef
middle C in the tenor clef and finally
middle C in the baritone clef
The baritone clef can be also written as
F clef
for facilitating the reading, especially
in case of a score with multiple clefs
In this case, the clef would sit on the
third line
and the two dots included as usual
Now, let's go back to the handwritten
version of the symbol
At the beginning of this video I showed
you some possible options.
All of them are correct and widely
accepted.
One can argue that this particular one
is too different
from the printed shape of the C clef. There's no need to be fussy about it,
but on one thing there's no compromise:
how you indicate where middle C is
All these symbols clearly show the
position of middle C
so they are all equally acceptable
The 5 C clefs are: soprano, mezzo-soprano,
alto, tenor, baritone.
I hope this video helped you understand
the C clefs and how to write them correctly.
Memorize the 5 clefs and you will be
able to identify them by
counting the stave lines from the bottom
to the top.
And if one of your classmates is still
struggling with the symbols and position
of the C clefs
send them to me and I'll sort the
struggle out of them.
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