ledger lines

A ledger line or leger line is used in Western musical notation to notate pitches above or below the lines and spaces of the regular musical staff. A line slightly longer than the note head is drawn parallel to the staff, above or below, spaced at the same distance as the lines within the staff.

Staff we count our note names reverse alphabetically. Since our notes are moving. Down starting on the bottom line e the next note in a space will be d. And then the first ledger line will be c.

Ledger lines are short lines placed above or below the staff which are used for notes that exceed the tonal boundaries of the staff. For example, this key is two notes above the pitch which we just identified as being the top note of a staff with a treble clef.

Middle C is an example of a note on a ledger line. It's easy to recognise as it is one if not the first note that you learn to recognise at the piano. But there are other ledger line notes beside Middle C and some can be hard to read.

A ledger in accounting refers to a book that contains different accounts where records of transactions pertaining to a specific account is stored. It is also known as the book of final entry or principal book of accounts. It is a book where all transactions either debited or credited are stored.

When notes are too high or low to be written on a staff, small lines called ledger lines are drawn to extend the staff. Example 15 shows ledger lines written above and below a staff: Example 15. Ledger lines, both above and below a staff with a bass clef.

The easiest way to read ledger lines is to determine upcoming notes relative to previous ones, e.g., "I just played a G and the next note is a fourth above it, so it must be C." Reading each note individually is way too much work. Most of the time I can tell what they are just by context in the piece.

In a ledger-to-ledger transfer, the assets or value are moved from one ledger to another while ensuring that the transaction is properly validated, recorded, and settled in both ledgers.

Ledger Analysis is similar to Group Movement Analysis, where sales and purchases of stock items involving the selected ledger can be viewed. The next level of information brings up the transaction-level details.

The lower note always goes on the left, regardless of whether the stem points up or down. A clef indicates which pitches are assigned to the lines and spaces on a staff. Extra lines called ledger lines extend a staff higher or lower.

A ledger line is a line added to the staff to read notes that are above or below the music staff. The most important ledger line notes to remember are the ones for middle C. Middle C for the treble clef is the first ledger line below the staff and for bass clef it is the first ledger line above the staff.

A ledger is known as the book of final entry or secondary entry whereas, a Journal is known as the book of original entry because all the transactions of a business are first of all recorded in the Journal from the source document and from the Journal, these entries are posted to the Ledger accounts.