The Grand Staff. Treble Clef on upper staff; Bass Clef on lower staff (image: wikipedia) The curving flourishes of music notation have always been something a mystery to me, although every day I, like ...

Tim Bass was just a boy when he discovered music, but it was love at first note. “I was raised in a very poor family, so my family couldn’t really afford private lessons or anything of that nature, ...

At the top of every score, and the beginning of every stave, repeated on every line, is a symbol that, to seasoned musicians, becomes so familiar as to be invisible. The humble but mighty clef. Clef ...

A flourish of gaily coloured audio tapes adorns the mantelpiece of an upstairs kitchen in Hackney. I pick out the only spine written in English. And there, in impeccable Letraset, reads the rather ...

Music is often described as a language, and it’s equipped with its very own vocabulary. We go back to basics and make a pitch for reading music. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Spinal Tap's "All-Bass" sound ("Big Bottom"), taken and played seriously by jazzmasters. The Bass Clef Experiment is a creative collaboration between bassist Greg Gohde and cellist Mike Alvarez.

There are few things more daunting than sitting in front of a large stack of complicated sheet music. Whether you’re a pro looking to brush up on the basics or if you’re totally lost after falling ...