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That musicnotation.org site outlines the major issues with traditional music notation. Traditional notation is very piano-centric, making learning to read it on
by mutagen 15y ago
That musicnotation.org site outlines the major issues with traditional music notation. Traditional notation is very piano-centric, making learning to read it on a chromatic instrument more difficult than it needs to be. Nearly all stringed instruments have no distinction between sharp, flat and natural notes.
That being said, there are hundreds of years of tradition behind current notation and that kind of momentum is unlikely to change. Guitar players came up with tablature, which is great except for the lack of rhythmic information in the notation.
- stdbrouw 15y agoI fear it's always going to be something-centric though. I play the clarinet and there's simply no easy way to indicate which fingerings to play short of sketching a clarinet and drawing it out (which is what happens, very schematically). That said, it is remarkable how easy it is for a pianist to play on sight, whereas for classical guitarists that's usually only a skill you can hope to attain if you major in music. Banjo and ukulele are even harder, because of the re-entrant tunings where your highest note is the topmost one instead of the bottom one, destroying what little correlation there was left between sheet notation and hand/finger position.