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Intervals on the staff in D major

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Fig. 1 · intervals on the staff, D major

What is on this sheet

Eight bars, 32 notes, in D major on a alto stave.

It runs from C3 to C5.

Every sheet is different: the seed in the address is what decides it, so a class can be handed one sheet and the next class a different one.

The stretch level of intervals on the staff is what sets how far the line moves at a time.

Pairs of notes to be named by the distance between them, written as they would appear in a part.

The same exercise elsewhere

treble clef bass clef C♭ major G♭ major D♭ major A♭ major E♭ major B♭ major

note namesName each note. Nothing moves by more than a third, so the reading is of the position, not of the leap.ledger linesThe notes above and below the staff, where most readers stop being fluent.steps and skipsSeconds and thirds only, so the eye learns the two shapes it will see most.accidentalsSharps, flats and naturals that the key signature did not put there, and that last to the end of the bar.sight-reading melodiesEight bars to be played through once, without stopping. The shape is a melody: it leaves the tonic and comes back to it.