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by codeulike 1883 days ago
So if you pretend that the sharps arent there and that they dont make any difference to anything then its all simple?
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I'm saying that our music is largely diatonic, and it's better to base our notation and terminology on the diatonic rather than the chromatic scale.

The idea that you can number semitones 1-12 has some mathematical elegance to it, but it's a terrible system in practice. It turns out that mathematical elegance doesn't count for much, and domain knowledge is important here.