When working from Middle C to C above Middle C, we often truncate and zoom in on the treble clef. This allows us to enlarge the notes for greater readability and accessibility. We often get asked why the treble clef in our videos seems, truncated, wrong or incomplete. This is an understandable question for sure and arguably a strange thing for us to have done, but it’s done with very good reason.

There are many cognitive, social and emotional benefits of a music education. On one hand, music is language. It has its own vocabulary, sounds, syntax and colloquialisms that are spoken across borders and oceans. It's call and response, give and take, listen and reply. On the other hand, music is math. It's patterns and sequences, fractions & ratios, divisions and subdivisions, and it follows almost universal patterns that border on sublime and divine.