How does 5 9 10 12 become G D E G? Just the notes?
Surely it's better just to remember 50, 90, 100, 120, which is just a sequence of 4 numbers which could, in a pinch, probably be derived, even if they're not general knowledge.

Otherwise you'll be pootling along when your instructor asks you what the speed limit is: do you then have to think "oh, this is a major road, it's in the third category, that's an "E", an "E" is the tenth note (remember to skip over the first "E" which is actually the third note, ... ) etc.?

What I mean is, if you have to remember G D E G, you might just as well remember 50, 90, 100, 120.
( Ghoti Fingers, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 16:32, 2 replies)

It does if you say that 1 = C, 2 = D, 3 = E (etc.) and skip the black notes.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 16:41, closed)

Racist.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 21:36, closed)

If anyone's racist here it's the OP.
There are 12 notes in an octave, or more if you subscribe to the teachings of Harry Partch.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 23:04, closed)

Interesting, if a little above my Grade 4 Piano (and self-taught whistling/humming). Baffled as to how his mother managed to die in a trolley accident, though. Unless she was vying for a spot at the 'yellow sticker' section in Tesco.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 8 Apr 2013, 0:10, closed)

Gebrauchsmusik
or "music for use" as our Teu-tonic cousins would call it.
(roysin, Sun 7 Apr 2013, 17:51, closed)