Yeah. The author should learn to sight read music. Oh, and do it with every instrument in the orchestra too, not just piano. Then maybe you'd be qualified to suggest improvements to notation.
When you actually learn to read music you quickly discover that you don't "see" the notes but instead see the intervals. You simply can't see intervals between characters from the Latin alphabet.
There are no spaces for sharps and flats because those are accidentals. If your melody contains a ton of accidentals then it's not in the key you think it's in.
I'm a geek, and I understand where the author is coming from. But music is played by musicians. This is all useful information if you want to program a synthesiser. But it's pretty much useless if you want to actually play music. Music is read by people who actually play music.
When you actually learn to read music you quickly discover that you don't "see" the notes but instead see the intervals. You simply can't see intervals between characters from the Latin alphabet.
There are no spaces for sharps and flats because those are accidentals. If your melody contains a ton of accidentals then it's not in the key you think it's in.
I'm a geek, and I understand where the author is coming from. But music is played by musicians. This is all useful information if you want to program a synthesiser. But it's pretty much useless if you want to actually play music. Music is read by people who actually play music.