five-line

Musical notes are written on a staff. A staff is made up of five horizontal lines and the four spaces between the lines. The vertical lines on the staff are called bars. The space between two bar lines is called a measure.

The 5 lines serve as 'home base', giving you a consistent visual reference, so that it remains clear where a note is regardless of how many notes are used. And finally, you modify the shapes of the notes to indicate different time values, adding a stick to the shorter notes. This is essentially how sheet music works.

Lines give us the backbone of each note, they tell musicians how loud or soft to play, they illustrate the shape of musical phrases, and they give information about how different instruments relate to one another.

On reflection, it is interesting that the notation evolved into a stave of just five lines. A mixed choir has a comfortable range of around 40 semitones and a modern piano has 88 keys and yet a five-line stave is sufficient to convey any one of those possible pitches.

The system of five lines and four spaces is called a STAFF. Basic pitch names are designated by the alphabet from A to G (A-B-C-D-E-F-G ).

The system of five lines and four spaces is called a STAFF.

The staff is an arrangement of five parallel lines, and the spaces between them. Both lines and spaces are numbered for reference purposes, and are always counted from lowest (bottom of the staff) to highest (top of the staff). When we run out of room on the staff we add ledger (or leger) lines.

One line would mean eighth-notes alternating. Two lines would mean sixteenths. Three lines means 32nds. In practical use, three lines means "fast notes, not necessarily 32nds". This is especially true in drum rolls.

A double barline consists of two lines, both the width of single barlines, positioned half a space apart by default. It is often used to denote significant changes in the music, or to mark the placement of rehearsal marks, key signature changes, and tempo changes.

The system of five lines and four spaces is called a STAFF.

The five-line staff (often "stave" in British usage) is used to indicate pitch. Each line or space indicates the pitch belonging to a note with a letter name: A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Moving vertically upwards, the letter names proceed alphabetically with the alternating lines and spaces, and represent ascending pitches.

In Western musical notation, the staff (US and UK) or stave (UK) (plural: staffs or staves) is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.