I started learning piano just over a year ago and picked up reading sheet music decently in an extremely short amount of time.
The gaps is the treble clef are
| F | A | C | E |
The bass clef is the same but shifted down one gap (and the highest note is G)
F | A | C | E | G |
And then middle C is, well, C. Just remembering that FACE goes in two places you get:
bass clef (C) treble clef
F | A | C | E | G | | | F | A | C | E |
And from that it's easy to go to the closest note and the count up/down one note and gradually memorize more. This was, at least to me, a drop dead simple way to memorize where everything goes.
The gaps is the treble clef are
The bass clef is the same but shifted down one gap (and the highest note is G) And then middle C is, well, C. Just remembering that FACE goes in two places you get: And from that it's easy to go to the closest note and the count up/down one note and gradually memorize more. This was, at least to me, a drop dead simple way to memorize where everything goes.