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Default 1You probably thought that I was calling a Quest Teaching Staff Meeting.

No, that isn’t it. The Staff that I am referring to is the – Music Staff.

If you look closely, you will see red lines behind the words “Staff Bulletin” in my picture. How many red lines did you count?

Please focus your attention on the 5 lines behind, Staff Bulletin.

These 5 lines and the 4 spaces in between them, join together to form the Music Staff on which music is written.

You can envision the music staff as the primary grid or map where the notes will be placed.

High notes will be towards the north (up) and low notes will be towards the south (down).

Scroll has returned to share a tale about the origins of the staff!

Enjoy the Tale

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Rhythm Menu Mini

Meet Cal
Universal Language
Rhythm Notation
Music Staff
Origins of the Staff
Rhythm Laboratory
Notation Parts
Note Heads
Stems
Beams
Flags
Note Construction
Common-Time
Measures
Bar-Lines
Counting in Common-Time
Whole, Half and Quarter Notes
Ties
Dots
Time-Signatures 
Q’s Rhythm Review
Time-Signature Rules 
Beat Accent
Down-Beat and Up-Beat
Conducting Patterns
Cut-Time 
Common-Time Beat Emphasis  
Three-Beat Measures
Note Values
Rhythm Workouts
The ‘Cycle’
Note Equivalents
Counting Sub-Divisions
 “If You Can Say It, You Can Play It” Author’s Story
Sub-Division Lingo
Quarter Notes with Eight Notes
Adding Sixteenth Notes
Notes Sharing Beams
Beam Awareness Pointers
Triplets 
Triplet Workout
Compound-Time
Compound-Time Workout
Music Rests
Rest and Note Equivalents
Whole Rest     Half Rest
Quarter Rest     Eighth Rest
Sixteenth Rest     Dotted Rests
Q’s Rest Review
Process of Sub-Division
Relating Rests to Notes
Rhythm Exam Prep
Level 1 Rhythm Exam
Level 2 Rhythm Exam
Level 3 Rhythm Exam