Music theory for nerds
In case anyone is searching for a really smart, modern method for learning music theory, this is it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hooktheory.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hooktheory.com</a><p>The author devised his own system for visually representing notes, it makes it much easier to understand things like scale degrees and relative notation (and thus the theory around famous harmonies, melodies, etc).<p>I think music tools are in desperate need for improvement... Starting with notation, which is still a bit akin to forcing programmers to go straight to Assembly. Little is gained from it as most people just completely give up and then go on to live the rest of their musical lives &quot;in the dark&quot;, without knowing how to read and write at all. This can actually be good for some but I&#x27;m sure it hinders the creativity of a lot more.<p>I think we also need way better digital instruments... That make it easier to stay on scale (or to modulate, etc -- whatever the mood is), for instance, allowing people to just play away which is what actually matters.<p>I&#x27;ve spent countless hours of my life learning scales on several different instruments and think a lot of that was wasteful. More often than not I&#x27;m just trying to stay in a given key anyway, nothing fancy...<p>Instruments really need better interfaces :)