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I would like to clear one thing up, @Kitman , @Cadgirl and @stevieblues , A, B, C, D, E, F, and G is not the musical alphabet. It is only the alphabet of the key of C. We don’t use any other letters, it’s true. But we do have 5 other notes. The names of those notes are determined by the context of the key. And those notes fall in between the notes that have a space.
It makes everything much easier when you see this. The musical alphabet is:
A, A#/Bb, B, C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, G#/Ab. The five extra notes are called “enharmonic” notes since they have 2 names. The reason we have 12 notes is because the spaces between the 7 notes of the major scale, 8 notes with the octave, are not evenly spaced. So, we put a note in between the notes that are not “next” to one another. Now we have an even spacing and we can transcribe. (True, this is a simplification. But it makes things clearer to recognize this from the beginning.)
Don’t let this stuff confuse you. Just allow it into your head, then let it percolate. It’ll be coffee in it’s own time. 😎
MG 😀