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> and then you wonder is sheet music somehow optimal or is it 'good enough' and has withstood the test of time I suspect traditional sheet music is like the th

• klodolph 3y ago
  Sure, if traditional sheet music is the qwerty keyboard, then this new version is a 2x expanded keyboard, with separate keys for all the capital letters. I think there’s no denying that the particulars of the current system of musical notation is more or less an accident of history. But it’s also a local minimum—if you want to improve on it, you’re probably going to have to come up with radical changes.
  • Aeolun 3y ago
    > if you want to improve on it, you’re probably going to have to come up with radical changes Yeah, that’s sort of related to my point. Like, Colemak and Dvorak are theoretically (and practically, with enough practice) better than qwerty, but they don’t need to just be better, they need to be so much better that people will throw all the investment in qwerty away. Sheet music feels the same.
• userbinator 3y ago
  ...and a traditional piano is like a keyboard with no markings on the keycaps.