Lessons · Unit 1: The staff

Step and skip

A step goes from a line to the next space, or from a space to the next line: the smallest move on the staff. A skip jumps over one: line to the next line, or space to the next space.

Step: line → the space next to it

Skip: line → the next line

Steps and skips are the shapes you will read most. Later, every note is read as a step or a skip from a nearby landmark, so this has to be instant.

Two notes appear. Say whether the second is a step or a skip away; up or down does not matter.

Drill

The session goes on until every skill below is mastered: at least 10 answers, at most 40. Your progress carries over between sessions.

Master the previous lesson first: Higher and lower