1.  Take a seat and I will be placing you in assigned seats today  Come up with a question that begins like this…..Why?

3.  Understand what the symbols are and their functions  Be able to draw those symbols on and off Staff Paper

4.  A Pencil with an eraser! Please be sure you have one as you will make mistakes

5.  The Staff.  What is it’s function?  We write our notes on it!  What does it look like?

6.  Is a Clef.  What does a Clef do?  It marks the lines and spaces of the Staff to give them letter names (Letters A-G)

7.  Each Clef gives the staff different letter names.  The Most Common is the Treble Clef

8.  The Bass Clef:

9.  The Alto and Tenor Clef Look Exactly the same:

10.  When they are on the Staff: › Alto Clef: › Tenor Clef:

11.  Well……

12.  Who can draw the best: › Treble Clef › Bass Clef › Alto Clef › Tenor Clef

13.  My name is Mr. Harris and I have a beautiful wife Katie and I have 2 children Christian and Corinne and I have a dog named Molly and a cat named Stitch and over the summer I music directed a musical at the Vero Beach Theater Guild called The Pirates of Penzance and I lived in New Jersey and……..

14.  Using Bar Lines, we separate our staff into smaller units called Measures

15.  When we want to end a song, we then use the Double Bar Line

16.  If we wish to repeat a portion or all of a musical piece, we add in the Repeat Sign

17.  This is to test what knowledge you have of simple notation.  Please place these notes in order of greatest number of beats to smallest  If you already know this, place these chords in order from greatest to smallest: › CM, C7, C6, C9, C15, C13