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Agreed. The patterns are the most interesting bits. Actually, just the fact that there exist patterns is pretty amazing. It's unfortunately hard to see them thr
by mvanga 5y ago
Agreed. The patterns are the most interesting bits. Actually, just the fact that there exist patterns is pretty amazing. It's unfortunately hard to see them through the notation and that made it very unintuitive for me for the longest time.
Unfortunately the momentum that Western music notation has, with a few centuries of tradition behind it, means one has to work within that system.
There was an interesting discussion I came across on Stack Exchange while writing the article: https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/67730/why-have-sharps-and-flats-instead-of-twelve-notes-with-distinct-names https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/67730/why-have-sha...
- coldtea 5y ago>Actually, just the fact that there exist patterns is pretty amazing. How so? If patterns didn't exist, it would just be random choices. Any non-random music making (and thus theory) requires patterns.
- codeulike 5y agore: the patterns, see discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860627 and my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26861415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26861415