Whyyyy must music be so confusing

I really need some mnemonics because, even if I know the base note, every time I want to know what notes are available in the major or minor scale I need to look it up and it all seems so random and makes no sense

Addendum: what I learned of music in school back in Spain gave the notes entirely different names ("do" through "si") so I essentially have to re-learn what little I knew

It was awful. In Spanish, "sharp" is "sostenido" (4 syllables) and "flat" is "bemol" (2 syllables) so talking about notes is extremely awkward

Bonus content: "sostenido" translated literally means "held", so you can imagine a kid's confusion when it has absolutely nothing to do with holding a note, it's about pitch instead

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