New video is OUT!
Added 2023-11-03 18:45:28 +0000 UTCHey everyone, here it is in full! Thank you so much for the support throughout the production of this video. I'm very sorry this one took so long. Although the research and script phase was quite long, it wasn't too bad. The real problem was the volume of animations I queued up for myself. It's just impossible to communicate points about how notation works without complex animations that require storyboarding and After Effects work. There were around 80 animations in this video.
I'm going to be coming back over the next few days to propose a few new directions / videos for the channel and I'd be very grateful for your feedback.
In the meantime, please enjoy!
Comments
Watched this from start-to-finish and was fascinated with the variety of serious and cuckoo ideas for representing music. I'm an amateur - a church choir guy - and I use Musescore to transcribe and to generate part tracks for rehearsal prep. As a retired programmer, I had a momentary rush when you showed how MuSc can present in any of several styles which are equivalent representations of the same musical intention. Just like Microsoft (for better or worse) created Foundation to support different application languages. Thanks for the time and depth you brought to this still-evolving art.
Robert Weiss
2023-11-21 02:47:09 +0000 UTCVideos like this are why I love your work so much. Despite me needing free up an evening to watch it (which is worth it!) it's always put together in such a thoughtful way. Thank you!
Thomas Keppler
2023-11-08 22:22:13 +0000 UTCI love this video. As a middle-aged individual learning piano, I struggled both with reading sheet music and dealing with fingering. My overly obsessive brain sent me down a rabbit hole exploring alternate notation systems and eventually designing my own "Compact Semi-Tonal" (CST) notation system. However, I didn't stop there. I also redesigned the piano keyboard layout (somewhat Dodeka style) and 3D-printed a replacement set of keys for an 88-key MIDI controller. After a few months of getting that out of my system, I gave away the keyboard and chucked the notation system to get down to the business of learning standard notation on a standard piano keyboard. That said, I came away with a tremendous appreciation for the design of both and a much deeper understanding of how notation and instrumentation evolve together and affect one another. It was an exciting adventure, to say the least! (PS - I love all the shots of Musescore's notation rendering you incorporated into the video -- it's just so beautiful to look at!)
Mark Johnson
2023-11-08 04:26:44 +0000 UTCI went to a music school as a child, I was taught well and I definitely *can* read the standard notation, but tbh I still hate having to do that to this day. To me it's like a foreign language that's very logical and easy when you're immersed in it for a decade, but still difficult and clunky to read and write after learning it for just a year. And, you know, a year is already 10 times longer than the average time people are willing to dedicate to their new "I wanna play a guitar" hobby. Maybe if we emphasised it's more of a "language", instead of just a "notation", it would be more understandable/acceptable to people that it by its very nature requires some dedication to grasp. (But this is ofc just my subjective view on the matter, and I struggle with specific processing issues that make this harder for me than it should be for a regular person, so take this with a grain of salt)
Joanna
2023-11-07 19:05:04 +0000 UTCI personally would love more videos about alternate notation systems (all of them ^^) as well as some of the different file formats and their limitations. E.g. abc notation, various midi variants, lilypond, etc.
Dominik Wagner
2023-11-06 15:29:14 +0000 UTCTo be honest: Sheet Music was a mental barrier for me for the longest Time. I do agree with the tone and conclusions of your video, and at the same time I'd love to contribute to a custom notation system display in MuseScore for "Colornotes" - as I did write my own to simplyfy/speedup my learning progress. I think we desperately would need a lingua franka in terms of exchange format, midi isn't enough, musicml to close to just traditional notation. How we view that piece of music should be in the consumers choice. MuseScore helped me a lot to gain access. That combined with Sheet Music OCR gave me a workflow to export good enough midi data to generate good Color Music sheet music. So Thanks for all your great work here!
Dominik Wagner
2023-11-06 15:26:45 +0000 UTCthe insight that many disruptors focus on the easy part of music making - reading the sheet - which can even be taught without playing an instrument. with the aid of flashcards and other memory systems. and not the difficult part of how to keep motivated, posture and hand/finger/... positioning so you're not hurting yourself in the long run, musicality, rhythm... but rather they fail to simplify a notation because of the inherent complexity music has
Martin Heuschober
2023-11-05 10:51:01 +0000 UTCthis is (again) nothing less than amazing
Martin Heuschober
2023-11-05 00:29:14 +0000 UTCI like your work and find the finished version far superior to the first drafts from a while ago.
Kevin Austin
2023-11-04 17:17:30 +0000 UTCWonderful intro / survey of the topic. Missing is a strong relationship between notation and performance in the 21st century. In general use, except in extreme conditions of very new music, an audio representation of a piece is available.
Kevin Austin
2023-11-04 17:16:48 +0000 UTCAbsolutely loved it
Nick Moore
2023-11-04 14:51:30 +0000 UTCas a painter i sort of wished that somebody would come up with a shapes&colors based tool for depicting or explaining music and now that you ve made me look at the huth's scheme - i take it back, seems disorienting, explains nothing helps no one! yes to shapes but probably a no to colours. (although i think it's also due to how differently a designer's and a painter's use and approach to shape and color would be). and i am very interested to hear your thoughts on color and sound
no
2023-11-04 00:02:15 +0000 UTCLove this video as always. I'm a bit disappointed that you didn't discuss shape notes, which are probably the most common form of alternate notation used in the US, especially by people who don't think of themselves as "musicians". But I very much understand that you can't cover everything
Anschel Schaffer-Cohen
2023-11-03 21:38:57 +0000 UTCI didn’t have any negative response to them, while understanding that doing them was a decent compromise Martin came up with to acknowledge the inevitable criticisms that come from actually defining ones’ scope.
gardenofadam
2023-11-03 20:23:43 +0000 UTC
