As somebody who has devoted six years of his life to building a web-based music notation rendering engine, I salute you! I make Soundslice (https://www.soundsl

As somebody who has devoted six years of his life to building a web-based music notation rendering engine, I salute you! I make Soundslice (https://www.soundslice.com/ https://www.soundslice.com/), which syncs music notation and real performance audio/video. I've seen several "alternate" or "simplified" music notations come and go. While I applaud experimentation, I've gotta be honest: if you do the work of learning to read traditional music notation instead of inventing a new notation, many more doors will be opened to you. You'll be able to jump in and read hundreds of years' worth of music, you'll be able to communicate better with fellow musicians, and it'll help develop your music theory knowledge. I say all of this as somebody who began as an amateur guitarist, reading only ASCII tabs. I know what it's like on both sides of the notational divide. :-)