Clef in sentence

3 examples of Clef in a sentence

We use something called a clef, a weird-looking figure placed at the beginning of the staff, which acts like a reference point, telling you that a particular line or space corresponds to a specific note on your instrument.

If we have to draw so many ledger lines that it gets confusing, then we need to change to a different clef.

At the beginning of a piece of music, just after the clef, is something called the time signature, which tells a performer how many beats are in each bar.

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