I’ve started taking notes after lessons to keep a record of what we’re working on and remember the exercises to revisit later. And as I’m sketching some of the exercises, I’m thinking surely someone’s already come up with an easy way to note walk-trot-canter and so on? Are there any good examples I should be looking at?
This USDF guide to scribing includes a suggested set of abbreviations:
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Different colors for each gait? In the various 101 Exercises books I believe they use different types of dashed lines, for example, dots, short dashes, long dashes.
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If you are drawing a grid, when I drew out dressage tests, I would change the line type - solid to dashed to dot - to denote the different gaits.
Other than that, just for yourself, use what works. The attached dressage scribe PDF is great and useful to use when you have more than one person looking at the test. For me, Walk is W, Trot is T, Canter is C, jog is J, etc.
