These past two weeks I have been growing more familiar with sheet music. In our music class, we were introduced to the music note alphabet which consists of the letters A, B, C, D, E, F and G. We completed a few worksheets where we were tasked with writing the letter underneath the music note. I found it challenging to try and memorize all the letters, so I made a visual legend to look back on each time I needed help:

I find these notes very confusing, and I was struggling to find a method to remember them until my classmates mentioned a few acronyms, such as Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. This refers to each line on sheet music, starting from the bottom and rising up. For the gaps, I can use the acronym FACE which starts from the bottom and rises up. As for the ones outside of the lines, I am confused and I need to ask around for some help. I know of one acronym, All Cows Eat Grass, but I am confused still.

I am beginning to think about how I can begin making sense of the sheet music that I have for my ending song. I asked a few of my classmates who have experience in piano playing and they told me that I could write down the music note letters on the sheet music to make the learning process a bit easier. I will still need to understand which notes on the piano are which, but this small step will make it a smoother process. I may end up also writing the beats down, although by now I feel very comfortable with the beat system and enjoy counting them. By the end of this, I hope to be able to play the song without the music note letters written down.