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pitches in standard music notation are hard enough to read when trying to map them onto a piano keyboard, but without that reference point… oh god. i think maybe the people who don't like it have a point. i will not go on a music-notation-must-die arc but man i hate this system
specifically i do not like the way pitches are notated. i understand how clefs + key signatures + stave lines work, so things written for non-transposing instruments are possible for me to read, but it's a struggle
standard music notation is great at notating rhythm though. for that reason among others, the piano roll is not a replacement
this thought brought to you by me wanting to play [that song] and thinking, oh, i already have piano sheet music, i can just read the chords, and then immediately being reminded i never developed the neurons for reading intervals off stave lines when there's a key signature, oops
i am lazy i think i'll just stare at the midi, it's okay, this is still me doing a meaningful intellectual exercise [i'm deliberately not looking up a guitar tablature]
@hikari people vastly over-focus on the piano key metaphor and understand-focus on the scale degree one (which is a thing that should make sense on any instrument)
@hikari this feels like such a low-hanging fruit for music notation honestly. people talk about the "unintuitive" symbolic notation for rhythm, but that's totally fine. but for pitch notation surely we can do better than what sheet music does. surely