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by seagaia 5294 days ago
Neato...this visualization is sort of well suited for a piece like that Prelude because it's mostly arpeggiations - when the strings change shape you can sort of feel more beforehand how the chords will change (the shrinking kind of tightens up, makes the pitches higher), moreso than looking at the sheet music.

That being said, it's not like it's a very useful visualization (just neat). I'm sure one could train oneself to get a feel for the visualization better, sort of in the way that if you read music long enough you can sort of play a piece in your head and get a rough feel for the relations in the notes (not necessarily the correct pitches unless you have perfect pitch, but the correct relative pitches...if that makes sense - a musician could very well think in their head what a C-E-G sounds like, but not all would imagine a 440Hz tone for the C, perhaps one would think of a 500HZ, but the ratios between the notes in their imagined C-E-G and an actual C-E-G would be the same.