Whyyyy must music be so confusing
I really need some mnemonics because, even if I know the base note, every time I want to know what notes are available in the major or minor scale I need to look it up and it all seems so random and makes no sense
Addendum: what I learned of music in school back in Spain gave the notes entirely different names ("do" through "si") so I essentially have to re-learn what little I knew
Bonus content: "sostenido" translated literally means "held", so you can imagine a kid's confusion when it has absolutely nothing to do with holding a note, it's about pitch instead
@socks wtf, it's the same root as sustain
@socks what the fuck spanish
-F
@socks@social.emisocks.com flashbacks to this grade when I tried to ask the teacher why long and short vowels were called long and short and just kept getting the sounds as an answer. (For any who don't know, way in the past English did do a length distinction but those length changes turned into sound changes over time)
@socks oh wow that word is easy to mix up with sostenuto which means a totally different thing
It was awful. In Spanish, "sharp" is "sostenido" (4 syllables) and "flat" is "bemol" (2 syllables) so talking about notes is extremely awkward