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Skill: The Music Staff

Music is written on a grid of 5 parallel lines called a staff. The musical notes are represented by ovals written on the staff. The oval can be either straddling a line, or between lines, in a space. The vertical position on the staff represents the pitch of the notes-- the higher notes are higher up on the staff. A major scale, which we'll talk about more later, is made up of a series of notes that alternate lines and spaces. Any given song is based on a particular major scale, and to sing it, we have to identify the pitch that is note #1 of the scale. That is typically the note that the pitch-pipe blows. In the first song there is an 'X' on the staff that tells you where the pitch-pipe note is. Notes that are on that space on the staff should be sung to match the pitch of the pitch-pipe note.

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