At the top of every score, and the beginning of every stave, repeated on every line, is a symbol that, to seasoned musicians, becomes so familiar as to be invisible. The humble but mighty clef. Clef ...

The written word is pretty vital - it's useful for everything from lyrical emotion, comedy and drama, through to the instructions for your dishwasher! If we take written word to a performance level, ...

Haunted ska trombone, feverish chopped-up beats and window-rattling basslines from Bass Clef, aka London dubstep producer Ralph Cumbers, whose second album arrives four years after his debut but is ...

The Grand Staff. Treble Clef on upper staff; Bass Clef on lower staff (image: wikipedia) The curving flourishes of music notation have always been something a mystery to me, although every day I, like ...

Both Ekoplekz and Bass Clef have been flying the flag high for UK analogue electronics for a while now, and they’ve joined forces to release a collaborative cassette Tapeswap under the squashed ...

London-based synth alchemist Bass Clef released a great album last year in the shape of Reeling Skullways, via Peverelist’s Punch Drunk label, which we described as containing "such soul – such ...

Music is often described as a language, and it’s equipped with its very own vocabulary. We go back to basics and make a pitch for reading music. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

There are many different mnemonics that can be used to remember the notes on the alto clef (reading from the bottom line up). You could use this mnemonic to remember the notes on the lines: You could ...