music notation is amazing! it works way better than trying to tell someone the notes in text without them able to hear an instrument or voice. an example of the text way is this: play descending 8th notes in C major that go "do, la, fa, mi, me" and then an offbeat quarter note, jumping up to "ti" and then going down in 8th notes "la so" where the first note is the down beat of a measure in 4/4 and the last note is the down beat of the next measure. also this is swing at 120 bpm. if i had a piece of staff paper i could write all that out in a matter of seconds and it would be much more clear.
that's true