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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]