
You reach the point where you ignore the pointlessness of it and see it as a significant ordering. Perhaps that's the point, once you've remembered something entirely pointless well enough, you no longer need the rhymes etc. In maths most of us learn to count in more than ones and twos, even though when you put them together you just get 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.īesides, why did they make you remember the alphabet? I can see many ways of grouping / ordering the letters of the alphabet that would serve some purpose but the alphabet itself seems arbitrary and as equally pointless to develop rhymes and songs to remember it in a specific order in much the same way that you're suggesting the notes on the stave are pointless learning because they are this "the alphabet" A.C" īut if you're going to "count" to see what a note is, you need some place to start from that you know and it makes more sense to count the lines or the spaces rather than every one. Your goal is probably to know every note by itself so you see C and it's C, it's not "err, F.

Plus the thing you're remembering is where those letters are on the stave. Well no, when you put them together you get E F G A B C D E F.
