🤠 howdy Tribers? Today I want to get you involved with the space notes on bass clef that spell All Cows Eat Grass from down, going up!
It’s an easy silly thing to remember to be able to tell the letter of the note on each space.
If you recall, from our very first Daily Tribe Gatherings, the staff (where we draw notes in), consists of 5 lines and 4 spaces.
So today, each one of those four spaces - gets a letter.
Starting from the bottom space is where A sits (All)
The second space from the bottom, going up hosts C (Cows)
Third space from bottom up - E (Eat)
Fourth space from the bottom - G (Grass)
Bottom to top - All Cows Eat Grass - mooooo!
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With that said, I will tell you straight up that I prefer NOT to teach this way (but will show it to you anyways).
I do not like it because it makes you sight read slow and I like my students progressing fast! This method is preferred in the states cuz it’s easier in the beginning for the student and gives him/her false “quick wins” which bite him/her later.
Teachers also use this so they can keep milking students for lessons and keep them at lower levels longer. It makes me wanna puke.🤮
Excise me.
I’d much rather have you progress faster so you are happy and joyful and so I am not bored.
All Cows Eat Grass makes you read slow!!!!!
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Well, slower than the alternative. The alternative might seem like it’s harder when you first start but in the long run - is better, easier and faster.
And that alternative - for bass clef - is knowing D is in the middle of the staff! Just like we talked yesterday, remember? From there, when you read any note is closest, since D is in the middle and then you just calculate the note you need - is it a step up or down from it? A skip? A third? A forth appart? Etc… Calculating the distances or notes in your head is faster than figuring out what letter and then what key…
Does that make any sense???
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Lol
Bonus in the first comment!