I did music at GCSE and A-level so I knew about a lot of the basic theory here, but it's fallen out of use in the past year or two. The best part of this by far was the deconstruction of tracks that I like into their components and realising that they're not insurmountably complicated. Kinda like a musical version of "you could have invented monads".
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#472I always wondered why musicians keep up with the conventional musical notation system, and haven't come up with something better (maybe a job for a HNer?). I mean the conventional music notation represents tones in five lines, each capable of holding a "note" (is that the right word?) on a line, as well as in between lines, possibly pitched down and up, resp., by B's and sharps (depending on the tune etc.). Since wes…
Think of it as data compression that shows you the notes you're most likely to play, without taking up space for notes you probably won't. If there's a piece in C, for example, in most traditional Western music you're unlikely to play off-key notes. So why take up valuable space for those when you can denote that unlikely event with a sharp/flat symbol? Traditional music notation made no sense at all to me until I re…
>Traditional music notation made no sense at all to me until I realized this.
Can't thank you enough because your characterization is the first one I've heard that adequately explains the foundation of the visual system as one of condensation. I've been shrugging my shoulders about this for many decades!
Re: Get started making music
#473The following really helps understanding the difference between electronic music genres.
Legendary Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music:
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/ (requires flash)
Re: Get started making music
#474Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool, I added myself to your list. What would you say makes your interface different than others?
It's gonna be clean and fast, no clutter. Recently there was this on HN https://github.com/peterrudenko/helio-workstation which kind of scared me cause my UI is somewhat similar (but after thinking about it more, I actually find mine a lot better). Also note that the UI is only like 20% of the whole thing, the thing that I'm really trying to improve is the workflows. I will make Hypersphere the fastest DAW in the wor…
Good answer, thanks! I look forward to seeing more and hopefully watching it blossom as it grows. Cheers!
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#475Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wes Montgomery, Erroll Garner, Django Reinhart and obviously Roland Kirk are probably the most well known that couldn't read at all . There are many, many more jazz musicians that were/are very poor sight readers.
Sure, but those guys are all (sadly) long gone, and the parent comment said "don't", not "didn't".
Bireli Lagrene, Scott Hamilton and George Benson have all said they don't really read music.
It's definitely true that most jazz musicians can read passably, but my original point was that it's an aural tradition. no one learns to play jazz reading notes off a page. Whereas in western classical music, it's an essential skill.
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#476Earlier quoted context omitted.
My intention was not to compare music notation and dvorak, but write about human behavior in similar situation against the "inertia" you cited.
Totally, I understand. And mine wasn't to counter Dvorak specifically, but mention that the inertia theory has been questioned, and also mention that sometimes things are believed to be better by some people but in reality aren't much better if at all for most people. Sometimes inertia is posed as a reason for not changing when in fact the reason is the accepted system is the superior system for the largest number of…
Now I got your point! Thank you.