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I am far from professional playing but I think it is a rite de passage for every piano player going from "What was wrong with the people who came up with this
by weinzierl 1y ago
I am far from professional playing but I think it is a rite de passage for every piano player going from
"What was wrong with the people who came up with this layout"
to
"These asymmetries are more blessing than curse".
To add a little context. To the layman a piano keyboard looks pretty regular, there is only this slight oddity with a block two and a block of three black keys.
For the player on the other hand this slight irregularity makes almost everything kind of irregular in a sense. For example if you play all the all white key triads you get mostly minor and major triads - mostly because one of them is diminished chord.
Or if you look at the patterns of black and white keys when you move a certain chord type through all the keys - it's a mess.
But it's a mess you can memorize and as a reward you will never get lost.