Changing notation isn't changing theory, it's changing notation.

There have been a ton of attempts to clefs, and there are a lot of reasons they fail. "Fixing" the bass clef to make it the same as the treble clef solves the "problem" for a piano player, but what about for the viola player? And introduces a bunch of other issues, like the treble and bass no longer aligning over Middle C.

Changing scientific naming because he doesn't like it, isn't really a compelling reason.

Multiple dots for repeats? His argument for not using numbers on top for repeats is that it's "ambiguous", and then he proposes... putting the number in the repeat symbol instead, which has exactly the same issue.

Figured bass isn't "ultimately very confusing". Roman numerals are used for analysis, not for actual playing. Notation like "F/A" works just fine for playing.

Same thing with his issue with Roman numerals and minor scales.

Time signatures are only a problem... when they aren't notated? So let's just get rid of the bottom number? And his "reform" for compound time can literally be done using standard notation.

-- David Cuny

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Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?

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