• Music is written on 5 horizontal lines called the stave or staff
• Always count the lines and spaces from the bottom going up
• We use a stave for the right hand and another stave for the left hand

• When the staves are joined by a line and a brace it is called the Grand stave
• The grand stave shows that the music needs both hands to play

• A dot after a note will increase its length by half. Have a look at the dotted minim.
• A normal minim is worth 2 counts
• ½ of 2 counts is 1 count
• Therefore a dotted minim = 3 counts
• Try working out how many counts a dotted semibreve is worth. 4 counts + (½ of 4 counts) = 6 counts

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