Piano Theory 2-5

Line and Space Notes
  • The staff can be filled with all the line and space notes in ascending order as shown below. There are 9 in total seeing there are 5 lines and 4 spaces to be filled.
  • For every movement going up from a line to a space OR space to line is the movement from a white note to the very next white up to the right.
Fig07LineSpaceNotes
  • Conversely, for every movement going down from a line to a space OR space to line, is a movement from a white note to the very next white note down to the left.
Fig08LineSpaceNotesDescend