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The Staff: Developing Your Musicianship I How To Draw A Staff, Treble and Bass Clef

1. The staff consists of 5 horizontal lines with a double bar line at the end indicating the end of a piece of music. 2. To draw a staff, draw 5 lines using a ruler and add a double barline on the right. Clefs are drawn on the left side. 3. The treble clef circles the second line of the staff indicating G, and is drawn with a vertical line and loop. The bass clef has two dots on the fourth line indicating F and is drawn with a dot, C-shape, and two stacked dots.

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The Staff: Developing Your Musicianship I How To Draw A Staff, Treble and Bass Clef

1. The staff consists of 5 horizontal lines with a double bar line at the end indicating the end of a piece of music. 2. To draw a staff, draw 5 lines using a ruler and add a double barline on the right. Clefs are drawn on the left side. 3. The treble clef circles the second line of the staff indicating G, and is drawn with a vertical line and loop. The bass clef has two dots on the fourth line indicating F and is drawn with a dot, C-shape, and two stacked dots.

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Developing Your Musicianship I

How to Draw A Staff, Treble and Bass Clef



The Staff

The staff is made up of 5 horizontal lines. At the end of the staff on the right is a double
bar line. This double bar line, or final bar line, is used to indicate the end of a piece of
music and consists of one thin vertical line followed by one thick vertical line. The left of
the staff is where we find our clefs.

To start:
1. Draw 5 horizontal lines across your paper. Use a ruler to keep the lines straight
and evenly spaced from each other

2. Next, add your double barline to the end of your staff on the right.

3. Once you have your staff ready, you will be able to draw your clefs!

*Note that while you practice drawing your clefs, you can use the entire staff. Don’t worry
about placing the clef in the left side of the staff until you are ready to notate music on your
staff.

Treble Clef Bb

Now that you have your staff laid out, it’s time to draw the clefs. The treble clef, also
known as the G clef, is commonly used to indicated notes or pitches located above
middle C (C4). The treble clef’s curl actually circles around the staff line that G is written
on.

To start:
Place your staff in front of you with the double bar line on the right side of the
paper.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

1. Draw a vertical line through your staff, starting slightly above the top line and
ending slightly below. (Don’t worry about starting on the left end! We’re just
practicing right now)

2. Now draw a deflated loop at the top of the line, facing right. It should look a bit
like a deflated letter “P”.

3. Next, connect this loop to a hump around the left side of the vertical line. The
hump should connect to the vertical line and be skimming the last line of the
staff.

4. Now draw a curl from the bottom of the hump, up and around the second line of
the staff, through the vertical line, and curling back down until just before it hits
the vertical line again.

5. Finally, add a little tail to the left of the vertical line. You’ve done it!

6. Practice drawing the treble clef 5 more times on your staff paper.

The treble clef can be difficult to draw at first and as with everything else in music,
practice will make it easier. But don’t feel discouraged if it doesn’t look perfect! Here
are some examples of famous composers and their versions of the treble clef.

2
Bass Clef
The Bass Clef is commonly used to notate pitches below middle C (C4). It is also known
as the F clef because it’s two dots indicates the line on the staff that F is written on.
Unlike the treble clef, the bass clef is much easier to draw.

To Start:
Place your staff in front of you with the double bar line on the right side of the
paper.

1. 2. 3.
1. Draw a dot on the fourth line (fourth from the bottom, second from the top).
2. Now draw a backwards “C” from the dot, skimming the top line of the staff and
ending near the second staff line from the bottom.
3. Finally, on the right of this “C” stack two dots, one above the fourth line, one
below. That’s it!
4. Practice drawing the bass clef 5 more times on your staff paper

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