One of the barriers of music is that we hear music, but seeing music is, at first, a distant relative. There are many ways to express musically through visual means. Notes and staff lines are only one way of reading and writing music, so as we learn that method we can use different ways of writing music that make the most sense to us right now! The tools we know how to use are our finger numbers, left-hand & right-hand, and rhythms; those are more than enough to create our own melodies. Creativity through our present "toolbox".