In music, pitches can be really high and really low. Since a staff only has five lines it would be a little ridiculous to put all these pitches on one staff because this would result in a hard to read jungle of ledger lines. This is where clefs come in. Clefs theoretically move the staff up or down the pitch latter depending on how high or low the pitches are. The following clefs show the position of one note on the staff. All other notes can be found based on the given note.

Treble Clef:

A treble clef (sometimes known as the G clef) tells you that the note G is on the second line from the bottom of the staff. See how the curly part of the treble clef wraps around that line?

Bass Clef:

A bass clef (sometimes known as the F clef), tells you that F is located on the fourth line from the bottom of the staff. Similar to the treble clef the bass clef also has a little curly thing that wraps around the line designated for F in this case.

Notice the location of middle C on both of the staves. The bass clef picks up where the treble clef ends.

C Clef:

The last clef is the C clef. It’s called the C clef because it can be moved up or down to change the location of middle C.

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