problems with beginner student - any advice?

[deeaa*]

No, Eric, honesly I am clueless about notation and such. It's just gibberish to me, but on vocal notes they do help to remember/understand the melody in a graphic fashion. Other than that...I just never had a need to learn them, and it always seemed impossibly hard anyway.

Btw good to be here again :-)

[Eric***]

No, Eric, honesly I am clueless about notation and such. It's just gibberish to me, but on vocal notes they do help to remember/understand the melody in a graphic fashion. Other than that...I just never had a need to learn them, and it always seemed impossibly hard anyway.

Btw good to be here again :-)

Well then, I apologize. I didn't mean to put you down or anything; I guess your "What are these notes you speak of?" got me thinking you were joking.

I wish I had the instinct you have about music. I'm closer to that than I was, but it's the result of learning scales and arpeggios and what not. I feel that the instinctive creation of music is more meaningful, so I like it a lot -- I just don't seem to have that in me, even if I am not incompetent from an instrument standpoint.