In this lesson we'll start by looking at ledger lines. As you may remember from the 'landmark system' video in our last lesson, ledger lines are little lines we draw above, below and through a note when we go above or below the range of the stave. 

Study this picture; you'll notice that extra ledger lines are drawn as the note moves away from the stave, and that essentially it's still following the same rules as when the notes were written on the stave. Every note name has it's own particular line or space, and we still use the letters A-G to name the notes.These can be tricky to read at first, but we can actually use the same mnemonics that we used to read notes on the stave, to make it easy to identify them.

This means that we can use the same system to identify the ledger lines as we did to remember the names of the notes on the stave.

In the treble clef we used Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit to remember the notes on the lines of the treble clef, and FACE to remember the spaces.

In Bass Clef we used Good Burritos Don't Fall Apart for the lines, and All Cows Eat Grass for the spaces.