Re: Custom music notation?

[ebenezer]

"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.