Nat 5 UM May Revision 2: 3 days to Go! - NOTATION / QUIZZES / UNDERSTANDING MUSIC VIDEOS

There are 3 days to go until the Nat 5 Understanding Music paper on Friday 5th May.

If you have to write musical notes, remember to put the stems of the notes on the correct side, going up or down as appropriate. If the note is above the 3rd line, the stem goes down, on the left like this -

If the note is below the 3rd line, the stem goes up, on the right like this -   

Notes which appear above or below the stave like this -

or this -

make use of ledger lines. These are extra, short lines which are used when the music is moving up too high or down too low for the existing stave.

Make sure you know what middle C looks like - 

It is the same note at exactly the same pitch in both clefs.

Try to imagine that there is another line between the bass clef and the treble clef - middle C sits on this line. D sits on the 'space' above this line and B sits on the 'space' below.

b) Try the quizzes - if needed, the password is music17.

c) take another look at the Understanding Music videos. Click here.