Hybrid Staff?

[Aaron]

I was thinking, "Wouldn't it be a better idea to just put a line on top of Treble Clef/line below Bass clef to have a hybrid?" That way, you wouldn't have to learn both. You would have to transcribe it into the correct octave, but bassists already do that. Do you think a 6-line staff/clef would be a good idea?

 

[jazzbo]

I was thinking, "Wouldn't it be a better idea to just put a line on top of Treble Clef/line below Bass clef to have a hybrid?" That way, you wouldn't have to learn both. You would have to transcribe it into the correct octave, but bassists already do that. Do you think a 6-line staff/clef would be a good idea?

How 'bout we all just learn more piano?

 

[Aaron]

How 'bout we all just learn more piano?

It would take a lot more time than writing a line on the bottom of a staff.

 

[ole Jason]

What's wrong with ledger lines?

 

[Electricmayhem]

Yeah!
Ledgers are fun!

 

[Chris A]

Yeah!
Ledgers are fun!

You should know!

Chris A.

 

[Lewk]

I think ledger lines system is perfectly acceptable, as any more lines on a page would reall confuse my eyes in an optical illusion kind of way.

 

[Wrong Robot]

Not a bad idea, doubt anything will change though.

tell ya what PoT, you become a composer, and always write your charts with a 6 note staves, maybe it'll catch on

 

[thebassmuchacho]

way back in the day there wasnt even two stafs for music, there was just one big one with like 12 lines or something like that!

 

[Melf]

I like this idea but anybody who's taken theory already knows how to read both clefs, and I don't think many people would want to learn a "middle" clef since they'd already know the other two. Still, neat idea.

 

[travatron4000]

dont forget about alto and tenor clef, and the rare soprano clef. a C clef on the second line from the bottom. as a bassist you see a lot of bass, tenor, and Treble. No one uses soprano and only Violas use alto. If you're any good are reading intervals it doesnt matter what clef you're in anyway

Travis

 

[Wrong Robot]

way back in the day there wasnt even two stafs for music, there was just one big one with like 12 lines or something like that!

well, *way* back in the day there was no staff, Then somewhere along the line(pun intended) some duder decided...hey, we need something to differentiate from the lower notes and higher notes.* And so he scored a single line to give more scale to the thing.

It evolved for a while, became 2 lines...3..4...I believe Bach is credited for the 5th line.

I do believe there was a period when there was a 10-12 line megastaff, but I think it was fairly short lived.



*If I remember correctly, choirs and such used to have a conductor type person that used hand positions to indicate what note to sing

 

[Stephen S]

It eventually grew into a 12 line staff called a Grand Staff, and composers took ut the middle line and it bacame Bass clef and Treble clef, and those other ones.