Hello! This is my second post. Today I started trying to learn where all of the notes are located, and some of the piano vocabulary as well. This is what I've learned so far.  

          There's this 'Grand Staff'. It contains both the 'Treble Clef' and 'Bass Clef'. The treble clef sign looks like a flamingo of some sort, and the bass clef looks like a side-ways frowning face. Just to make it easier though, the treble clef is on top of the grand staff and the bass clef is at the bottom. You use your right hand for the notes located on the treble clef, and you use your left hand for the notes located on the bass clef. The treble clef and bass clef are centered around the middle C key. You should also know about Leger Lines. Leger lines are used when notes are too high or too low for the staff. The middle C key has a leger line through it.

          There's this pattern of piano notes that you need to know. It's C, D, E, F, G, A, and B (these are the white keys). These repeat throughout the whole keyboard of the piano. There's also such a thing called 'sharps' and 'flats'(these are the black keys that jut out from the white keys). Sharps look like '#', and flats look like 'b'. Sharps are after a note, and flats are before a note. For example, there is C sharp, or C#. C# is the black key after the white key 'C'. However, it is also referred to as D flat, or Db, since it is also before the key of D. This goes for every key out there.

This picture is looking pretty 'sharp' if I do say so myself.. No? I'm sorry. Did that joke fall.. 'flat'? Okay I'll stop.

          In order to tell which note is which on the grand staff, you have to remember these patterns of letters for both the treble clef and the bass clef. For the treble clef, you have to remember this set of letters, or mnemonic; EGBDF. Some people, in order to remember the sequence easier, says it stands for 'Every Good Boy Does Fine', or 'Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge'. These letters represent the keys E, G, B, D, and F on the treble clef. These keys show up on the lines of the treble clef. The keys that show up on the spaces of the treble clef are F, A, C, and E. This one isn't very hard to remember, since it's pretty much already a word: face. 

          Like I said before, there are mnemonics for the bass clef as well. The mnemonic that shows on the lines of the bass clef is GBDFA. Some people says it stands for 'Good Boys Do Fine Always', but personally that seems too similar to the mnemonic already used for the treble clef, so I prefer 'Good Burritos Don't Fall Apart'. The mnemonic that shows on the spaces of the bass clef is ACEG. Some people says it stands for 'All Cows Eat Grass', which I have to agree with. 

A visual aid for those poor children who can't read.

Keeping all of this in mind, hopefully I'll be on the next step to learning how to read sheet music.