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Hey @Carol-3M-Stillhand Carol;
These are great exercises. It’s really good to be able to work with these letters intuitively, automatically. It really helps in our playing.
However, GFEDCBAGFEDCBA isn’t 2 octaves. It’s missing the 2nd octave. So it’s 1 octave + 7th. It’s really important in music to recognize that the whole musical system is based on G to G, or whatever note you are playing using as your root. The 1st and 2nd overtones of your root are the 1st and 2nd octave. That’s the basis of everything else. The notes in between are just that, they were derived based on their relationship within the octave.
That was my point above. Doing mental gymnastics with the musical letters is a wonderful thing to do, but do it musically, not grammatically.
MG 😀