Jarrett Sleeper

Okay, I'm going to do my best because it's confusing to me as well.

For some reason, we've decided to make the language of music incredibly confusing, so here we go, simply as possible, buckle up.

Okay, first of all, all of music is just 12 notes looping indefinitely.

We're just gonna start with whole notes, okay?

There are seven of these, and we name them by the first seven letters of the alphabet.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, okay?

They loop forever, so after G, you just go back to A.

In between most of these notes, there is another note dividing them, a note halfway between the whole notes.

That's how we get all of music being made with 12 notes.

Now, I'm sure you are thinking, 12 notes, hang on, you just said seven notes.

And if there's one in between each of those, it should be 14 notes.

That's why I said most of these notes and why music is so confusing.

There is an extra note only between most of them.

So between two of the notes from B to C and from E to F, there is no middle note.

All right.

It's just one step up instead of two.

This, for me, is one of the most confusing things and why I find music theory so hard is because, like, why is it randomly and I can't keep the numbers straight?

But maybe a lot of people feel that way.

All right, to make this even more confusing, the note in between the whole notes can be named two different things.

Because, yeah, we name the note in between only in reference to the note on either side of it.