Music theory for nerds
<i>This has got to be some of the worst jargon and notation for anything, ever.</i><p>Indeed. I&#x27;m a musician, and something non-musicians often ask (especially techies, it seems) is why we use such an archaic notation system.<p>The reason is simply that a certain number of musicians have developed the skill of <i>sight reading</i> which is the ability to perform a composition directly from a written sheet, with little or no rehearsal. Those players, myself included, can&#x27;t quite explain how we do it, and aren&#x27;t going to learn a new notation system.