I think this question is more directed to french or italian people who like me learnt music theory (50 years ago concerning myself so notes names are kind of engraved in my memory) using notes names as “do re mi fa sol la si” and not the musical alphabet used by the rest of the world (A B C D E F G). Now I’m a bit confused and wandering if I should completely forget these notes names I learned in the past or continue to work with both ? Because at this stage I feel like my brain is always making the translation from one to the other, a bit like when you learn a foreign language if you see what I mean: at first thinking in your native language and then translating it into the other one to fully understand.
This is not a really big deal and it will probably disappear in the near future but for the time being I’m not very happy with this situation as it gives me the impression I’m doing the job twice, so what would you suggest if I may ask ?
hi @Richard_close2u I am seeing this today in March 2026, as I enlisted in the course. This is what I get in the JG-PMT-Grade1-Worbook-v2.pdf document I downloaded today, quote from Page 7:
“Guitars only play notes between 80 Hz to 1.31 kHz. The second thickest
string on the guitar is the note A, whose frequency is 110 Hz. Piano goes
lower, down to 27.5 Hz, but not as high, only up to 4.18 kHz (4180 Hz).”
Do you see how this sentence is not correct? It says that piano goes lower than the guitar, but then lists the upper frequency higher than the guitar one.
Appreciate the correction if you will do it, want to precise in theory, that’s why I took the course.
@robijati Hello Robert and welcome to the Community.
You’re right to see that as an error.
There was a discussion about an error in the video, the lesson text and the pdf more than a year ago. I edited the lesson page and added a note that the video contained an error.
