[moultano]

I've struggled with reading music despite years of piano lessons, years of church and school choirs, and being the main arranger for my college a cappella group. Watching the video of the Blue Danube Waltz on that page was amazing. I felt for the first time like the shapes of the things on the page actually corresponded well to the musical concepts in my head.

I know it's an extremely uphill battle to actually get anything like this adopted, but I think it would do wonders for teaching and working with music. How many musical concepts would suddenly be obvious to people if they could actually see them directly on the page without layers of translation in between?

[recursive]

I'm not an apologist for music notation as it exists today, but it doesn't seem obvious that this is a net improvement. I watched the Blue Danube video. Apparently, I still don't understand the notation. There are some notes in the bottom staff that are sitting on the middle ledger line in a group of three. I don't see a thing where it's explained what that means. I don't get it.