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Your critique is spot on for those trained in music. Is that his target audience? What about for those being exposed to music and its notation for the first t

Your critique is spot on for those trained in music. Is that his target audience? What about for those being exposed to music and its notation for the first time? What if you had never had a concept of putting your brain in G major mode. But if complete beginners are his target audience, it begs the question why stop there? Why maintain the use of the staff at all.

microtherion 14y ago
I don’t think acquiring a sense of key signature is a dispensable part of the music learning experience, unless you plan to stick to twelve tone music.
silencio 14y ago
No matter what people come up with and who the target audience is, there needs to be a good bridge between the traditional and the new. Staff or not, great for beginners or not, this will only fail because of the total lack of sheet music and other materials with nothing in sight to automate the translation of even a limited subset of music and materials. (Of course, caveat, I've been playing piano for 20+ years as a hobby. Maybe the ties to the traditional are really not a big deal.)
- shardling 14y ago
  I certainly hope that in the near future, digital transcriptions are easy enough to come by that you could effectively just change the font from one notation to another. I know there are a lot of judgement calls in typesetting music, but that's true of text too, and we have some pretty good algorithms for doing so these days. All that said, I have a lot of reservations about this particular notation, but I think there's certainly room for improvement even inside the current system. Letting the back catalog of work hold notation back isn't healthy.
- PeterisP 14y ago
  The whole point of any new, better musical notation is avoiding the need to deeply understand the current traditional notation. It is enough if machines can translate the existing sheet music to the new system.
arnarbi 14y ago
> target audience This is a very valid point. Certainly the learning process for children can be improved a lot. Really, a lot. But I think it is important to integrate it with the actual notation from the beginning, as otherwise you will hit a wall when you want to play a bigger variety of music that's only available in that format.

microtherion 14y ago

I don’t think acquiring a sense of key signature is a dispensable part of the music learning experience, unless you plan to stick to twelve tone music.

silencio 14y ago

No matter what people come up with and who the target audience is, there needs to be a good bridge between the traditional and the new. Staff or not, great for beginners or not, this will only fail because of the total lack of sheet music and other materials with nothing in sight to automate the translation of even a limited subset of music and materials. (Of course, caveat, I've been playing piano for 20+ years as a hobby. Maybe the ties to the traditional are really not a big deal.)

shardling 14y ago
I certainly hope that in the near future, digital transcriptions are easy enough to come by that you could effectively just change the font from one notation to another. I know there are a lot of judgement calls in typesetting music, but that's true of text too, and we have some pretty good algorithms for doing so these days. All that said, I have a lot of reservations about this particular notation, but I think there's certainly room for improvement even inside the current system. Letting the back catalog of work hold notation back isn't healthy.
PeterisP 14y ago
The whole point of any new, better musical notation is avoiding the need to deeply understand the current traditional notation. It is enough if machines can translate the existing sheet music to the new system.

arnarbi 14y ago

> target audience This is a very valid point. Certainly the learning process for children can be improved a lot. Really, a lot. But I think it is important to integrate it with the actual notation from the beginning, as otherwise you will hit a wall when you want to play a bigger variety of music that's only available in that format.