Guyz, I must tell y'all this:

Personally, I'm a fast learner and I have been so all my life.

I taught myself tons of stuff, on many occasions, in many fields of interest - both "subjective" and "objective" subjects.

I'm also good at explaining stuff 2 others.

But 4 the life of me, of all the subjects I have come 2 know, the layout of musical scales and music theory is the most OBSCURE, UN-ORGANIZED, MISLEADING, INACCURATE description of reality.

It's frequencies, amplitudes and time we're dealing with here. It's a physics and mathematics - clear languages I studied at the university with what I may humbly call relative success.

As 4 the musical side, I've been doing it 4 a good number of years - playing, producing, engineering and composing - The gold and platinum albums hanging on my walls covering the majority of wall space in my apartment may indic8 I don't s.u.c.k. @ this either.

I've been using this language 4 many years, communicating with other musicians on everyday basis @ work - and I can get the msg across - BUT:

SOME1 HAS GOT 2 COME UP WITH BETTER S.H.I.T.

I look @ a piano or a gtr, I c a repeating scale of 12 notes. In oriental music we may divide it in2 smaller parts, but whatever the division may b, we still get less then 50 notes > a simple, closed system.

But when trying 2 communic8 - each note may have 7 different names on occasion, the code 4 visual representation is obscure and non-linear, the chart 4 a viola is difficult 2 read by brass players, the "rules" may bend either way -

-This resembles more a religious medium with contradicting POSKEI HALACHA rather then a clear laid down theory.

Just look @ this thread - simple material, but it looks like 7 BABOT arguing over is it allowed 2 scratch 1's nose after eating cheese.

A chess game 4 example is 32 pieces running over 64 squares - hard 2 calcul8 maybe but EASY and CLEAR rules 2 understand.

Music representation and build should b even more simple - but they're not.

No wonder that when working with MIDI sequencers - even trained musicians choose the "keyboard" editor rather the "score" editor.

Even the most advanced noting (TIVUY) software can't get a chart right without a human supervising it correcting obvious mistakes.

I find it hard and uninviting 2 learn the subject in deeper levels, and if that's the way I feel - how would an inexperienced kid feel?

SOME1 HAS GOT 2 COME UP WITH BETTER S.H.I.T.

Peace,

Zooot

E tu - Brutoo?