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🎵 Key Takeaway Found a great ocarina tab on Pinterest, but it's just numbers like "1 2 3" with dots and lines? This is Jianpu (Numbered Musical Notation). It is widely used in Asia. 1 means Do, 2 means Re. A dot above means play it high. A line below means play it fast. The ocarina is massively popular in Japan, Taiwan, and China. Because of this, 80% of the best free ocarina sheet music on the internet comes from Asia. The problem? They don't use Western standard sheet music. They use numbers. If you don't know how to read these numbers, you are locked out of thousands of amazing songs. Here is your 3-minute crash course to decode Jianpu. The Numbers (Pitch) Numbered notation is based on "Relative Pitch" (Solfege). If you are holding an Alto C ocarina, here is your translation key: 1 = Do (C) 2 = Re (D) 3 = Mi (E) 4 = Fa (F) 5 = Sol (G) 6 = La (A) 7 = Ti (B) If you see the number 0, it means a "Rest" (Silence). Do not play anything. The Dots (O