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On your last question, it took me a minute to get that those various "Above" or "Below" correspond to the notes they represent, A and B. The pitch is revealed b

by brodney 13y ago

On your last question, it took me a minute to get that those various "Above" or "Below" correspond to the notes they represent, A and B. The pitch is revealed both in the symbol and in the position on the staff. I found that pretty useful, certainly easier to read than homogenous black dots where you only have spatial information.

arnarbi 13y ago
Thanks, turns out I totally misunderstood those at first - and edited my comment in the meantime. Sorry about that.
MBCook 13y ago
I read through the whole page and didn't get that. It didn't click until I started looking at the second page on the site (which goes more in depth). My immediate thought once I figured that out was "this depends on English". For speakers of Japanese or Russian or French, can you find easy to remember words that can go with the first symbol, and that start with an "a" sound? I actually found the terms extremely confusing. At first I thought the above/below referred to sharp/flat, but that didn't turn out. I couldn't even come up with concepts for dot and groove. I know how to read music, but I'm not very good at it. I'll say that the idea of giving each note it's own shape seems like it could fix the problem of losing my place and having to count lines/spaces to figure out what a note it. The thing I've never liked about musical notation is that the X axis has nothing to do with time. A staff can have 8 32nd notes and then a dotted half note. Those first notes take up 1/4 the time but 3/4 the space. While it would take more space, I find a consistent relationship much easier (such as piano roles or Guitar Hero note charts).
- jfim 13y ago
  As a native French speaker, we don't use the CDEFGAB notation but rather the "do ré mi fa sol la si do", so the symbols make no sense whatsoever.
HNLogInShit 13y ago
The "above" is supposed to stand for the A note? I didn't get that from any part of this. How can such a basic point be so poorly (or not explained)? Using icons that translate to English words to stand for note letters is a terrible idea.

by brodney 13y ago

arnarbi 13y ago

Thanks, turns out I totally misunderstood those at first - and edited my comment in the meantime. Sorry about that.

MBCook 13y ago

I read through the whole page and didn't get that. It didn't click until I started looking at the second page on the site (which goes more in depth). My immediate thought once I figured that out was "this depends on English". For speakers of Japanese or Russian or French, can you find easy to remember words that can go with the first symbol, and that start with an "a" sound? I actually found the terms extremely confusing. At first I thought the above/below referred to sharp/flat, but that didn't turn out. I couldn't even come up with concepts for dot and groove. I know how to read music, but I'm not very good at it. I'll say that the idea of giving each note it's own shape seems like it could fix the problem of losing my place and having to count lines/spaces to figure out what a note it. The thing I've never liked about musical notation is that the X axis has nothing to do with time. A staff can have 8 32nd notes and then a dotted half note. Those first notes take up 1/4 the time but 3/4 the space. While it would take more space, I find a consistent relationship much easier (such as piano roles or Guitar Hero note charts).

jfim 13y ago
As a native French speaker, we don't use the CDEFGAB notation but rather the "do ré mi fa sol la si do", so the symbols make no sense whatsoever.

HNLogInShit 13y ago

The "above" is supposed to stand for the A note? I didn't get that from any part of this. How can such a basic point be so poorly (or not explained)? Using icons that translate to English words to stand for note letters is a terrible idea.