"I'm forming the opinion that conventional notation is like the QWERTY
keyboard layout."
Exactly.
IMO a new system doesn't even need to be better, just more appealing to
the masses. If someone came up with a notation system that enabled
teenage girls to be able to sing a song just by simply looking at it,
well, within a decade or 2 it's use would be global.
In a similar vein: TAB for guitarists.
On 2021-02-04 15:47, Karlin High wrote:
On 2/4/2021 9:36 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote:
A second disadvantage of this notation,
I'm forming the opinion that conventional notation is like the QWERTY
keyboard layout. There are different ideas out there for improving it,
but it would need like a 10X improvement to build any momentum towards
having something become a new standard.
However, there ARE other notation systems that apparently have gained
a strong following within a particular music scene, Chinese Jianpu for
example.
