This post is directed to Francy, but also to all those who are about to study a new reading key (both treble clef, and the bass clef family, such as bass clef, and the C-clef family: soprano, mezzo, alto, and tenor).
We pianists must read both treble and bass clefs well... in fact, if we put them one on top of the other, we discover that we are reading an 11-line staff: the five lines of the treble clef at the top, the five lines of the bass clef below, and in the middle, middle C, which is the central C of the keyboard common to both clefs. This large staff is called eleven-line (endecalineo), or consisting of eleven lines.
Well. The exercise I propose to you is to open your left hand and touch your fingers with more or less speed using your right hand, as if they were the notes found on the five lines. As soon as you have touched a finger, you must say the name of the note out loud. I remind you that, in treble clef, the pinky represents E, and progressively G, B, D, F. Once finished, for a little bit of "playing" on the lines, quiz yourself with leaps and touch, while pronouncing, the corresponding fingers (this is important!); then you will begin to study the notes that are in the spaces. Starting from below the pinky: D, F, A, C, E. When you have become "good," you can quiz yourself with leaps and at random, both on the spaces and on the lines. This must be done for at least a few days.
After a few days, you will become so good that the "little game" will no longer amuse you. Then you will take a sheet of musical staff paper and do the following two exercises ALTERNATELY: 1) quickly write below the staff the names of the notes that come to mind, filling the page. Just as quickly, by re-reading the notes you have written, immediately place the notes on the staff. All with SPEED! You will call this exercise: first the name and then the sign.
2) quickly fill another page with random notes and then, still with speed, write the corresponding name below. You will call this exercise: first the sign and then the name.
I advise you to alternate pages between ex. 1 and ex. 2.
Do all this for a few days.
Now you can take any sheet music and read, without rhythm, quickly and by pronouncing them, the written notes.
Do this for a few days.
Now if you want to learn the bass clef, do the same, but at least after two days of having finished studying the treble clef INTENSELY.
This allows you to learn these two "languages" independently, without one referring to the other. This double step, which is equivalent to expressing yourself for example in English by first thinking of the meaning in Italian, will allow you, forever, to speed up your reading without making useless references. Naturally, subsequently you will have to tackle reading with rhythm and know how to divide the figures into their duration... in short... not just reading the notes, but reading the Music.
Happy studying
