Don't worry about it "Mr mac". I can't read them (to read music) either. I recently started Pip, my mother, going on abc. Unlike me, she is a sight reader of music. She is finding translating the dots to note names (I mean abc can does use upper and lower case letters) quite natural and is getting into the note lenghts.

Quite weird really, me "teaching" a music reader but I've got a little more experience on the computer side of things and can figure bits out more easily when something looks wrong.