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Today is a new journey!

It's been a little over a decade since I've last picked up an instrument and played with purpose and soul. So, I went on a limb and bought a cello. What pushed me to doing so was my love for its voice and luck with the opportunity to talk to a cellist from THE Transiberian Orchestra.

Today, I'll actually have the instrument in my hands and begin learning. It's completely new territory for me, even down to reading music (I can read Treble Clef not Bass clef). But eventually, my ultimate goal with it is to play my own rendition of Skyfall and Interstellar (I love Hans) to where I'm just "singing" through it. So really just having fun. :)

But dang, if I could quit my day job and pursue music full time... what a dream.
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The bass clef is easy...just follow the bouncing fish...! 😉

(NOTE: I used the nice images from the article at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef)

Bass and Treble clefs

Seriously, the bass clef is fine and continues the march downwards set by the G-clef many people know. Middle C is right ON the only ledger line (a little notational aid for notes above or below a staff) which falls between them.

So the E at the bottom of the treble/"G"- clef has the space next to it as D, a ledger line next to that as middle C...

Then THAT "middle C on a ledger line" is the first ledger line ABOVE the bass clef.
The space right on top of the bass clef is the B next to middle C, then the top line of that clef is A...

Same ordering sequence.

Note that the bass clef has 2 dots; these are on either side of the F-line in that clef:


This clef sign can actually be placed on ANY of the 5 lines of a staff, but whichever line has the 2 dots on either side of ut, THAT line indicates the F just below middle C ("F3", in the third full octave, counting the C's from left-to-right on a piano; middle C is C4, the beginning of the 4th complete octave).

That also works with the treble clef:


Wherever it is placed, the inner part curls around the line which indicates the G just above middle C ("G4").



C clefs

With the cello, you might have occasion to use one of the C-clefs. Just like the F-clefs (the bass clef being one example) and the G-clefs (including your old pal, treble), the C-clefs always indicate a C (middle C, or C4), but this time it's with the center of a weird shape; you'll likely see this one


That shape always is centered on middle-C, but can be anywhere.



ALL the clefs

Here's the rules about each:


Here's how all the movable clefs tend to be used:


BUT HERE ARE THE ONES YOU'LL ACTUALLY SEE


And here's how three of them fit together:

JamesBugman · 56-60, T
I bet that feels good to play. Nothing satisfies like a string of notes in harmony.
JollyRoger · 70-79, M
Dreams like this are possible: Practise, practise, practise!
Just get someone else to support your 'habit'.😄
Mudkip · 31-35, M
Well hopefully one day it happens. It'd be awesome
RedGrizzly · 26-30, F
@Mudkip It'll take some time and a lot of practice, but you're right! It's gonna be awesome. 😄
Mudkip · 31-35, M
@RedGrizzly great things happen to good people. Keep practicing and perhaps one day it'll be reality.

 
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