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So I just started piano (got one for Christmas). Notation is a PITA but the effort to decipher is still orders of magnitude easier than actually playing anythin
by praptak 3y ago
So I just started piano (got one for Christmas). Notation is a PITA but the effort to decipher is still orders of magnitude easier than actually playing anything.
I can imagine the effort ratio gets even more skewed by the time you get to the level at which you could invent a better notation, so in the end nobody bothers.
- josephg 3y agoI don’t think you can accurately extrapolate from one week of piano experience. If you keep at it, I suspect how it feels to play in 6 months or 6 years from now will be very different from how it feels to play now. I’ve been playing piano casually for about 18 months now. I can sight read easy music (though I can’t play smoothly) and I can play a bit of jazz. Physically playing the instrument - hitting the notes I intend to hit - is pretty easy. But reading sheet music (and especially reading the rhythm) is absolutely my bottleneck right now when it comes to performance. I’m sympathetic to the problem - improving sheet music notation seems hard. But learning it really is a hassle.
- jacquesm 3y agoIf you have a piano with MIDI I'd love it if you as a beginner would give pianojacq.com a workout and let me know what you find could be improved. It's super hard to go back to that first impression state and your feedback would be very valuable. Regardless: congrats on getting an instrument and starting out on it!