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Old 09-09-2019, 10:55 PM   #425
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ya, that's first thing we learn in music theory class... or at least I did... you can use whatever method you choose, but these are just some ideas and tools others have found useful... take it or leave it...
There's plenty of citations I could include on this thread from legenday, published musicians also stating the weaknesses in music theory, but the problem is, they are also so busy trying to teach the music theory in their essays, that they don't devote time to suggesting solutions, or even sometimes state literally, that they are not qualified to make a new system and that task should be left "to others."

So assuming we say "take it or leave it? let's leave it! and make a better system!" Well....what then?

That's exactly where Nashville notation came from, but it isn't complete. The normal player today will use "popular music notation" aka "jazz notation" like Am/E on their charts instead of the classical notation with roman numerals viio43. And it doesn't get much farther than that. There must be some better solution to this. Modern typesetting with new fonts, modern apps like MuseScore or Reaper, and MIDI file format for import/export should be able to open up so many previously-unavailable possibilities.
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