Nine Places
Music · Page 1 of 2
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Date
DIRECTIONS: Follow the notes up the grid, one step at a time.
1Count the nine places
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2Watch them climb
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3Turn over: 5 questions
1line
2gap
3line
4gap
5line
6gap
7line
8gap
9line
Five lines + four gaps = nine places. One step up: line to gap, or gap to line.
Now across. All four sit in place 5, the middle line. Different lengths, same pitch.
Nine Places — Using the Grid
Music · Page 2 of 2
DIRECTIONS: Answer from the grid on page 1.
- Write the place number (1 to 9) of each of the five notes above, in order.
- Which of those five is the highest? Which is the lowest?
- Two notes are three steps apart. If the lower one is on a line, is the higher one on a line or in a gap? Explain how you know without drawing it.
- Draw a note in place 4 and another in place 7 on the stave above the questions, in the space after the last note.
- A stave has nine places and there are far more than nine notes on a piano. What must happen when a tune goes higher than place 9?