I’m from Mexico and the way I learned the musical notes was by their sound, however some friends from other places learned the notes with letters.
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We’re really talking about two separate tools used in music and singing. Do-re-mi is never used to *notate,* it’s only real use is *calibration*.
Professionally, the do-re-mi pattern is really only ever used in a practical setting as a *vocal warm up.*
It isn’t fixed to any specific note on the scale, rather, it’s phonetically easy to sing and provides easy, common transitions between vocalized notes. This simply provides a starting point for calibrating your voice to an established musical key (and can be adapted to any major/minor key).
You can start the “do re mi” scale wherever you want. You can sing “do” in an F or in a C, that’s up to you as a singer to learn how to make that sound in the specific note you’re looking for.
It also helps your voice transition over the octave break. Finding and compensating for that break is pretty important, and the Do-Re-Mi scale helps make it easier.
The ABCD structure, on the other hand, is designed to give a universal method of notation to any particular tone. Because sound is quantifiable, we’ve figured out that it can be broken down into octaves and scales (and even these have shifted over the centuries). So we just needed a mathematical way to communicate said scales.
This is why we include sharps and flats in notated music, but you’ll never hear someone say “no, that’s a Mi-sharp.”
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