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You appear to know what you're talking about (I certainly don't), but it also seems to me that the knowledge in this post is not accessible to I would imagine the vast majority of people. Do you have any recommendations for where to start learning about this kind of thing aimed at music theory troglodytes like myself?

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Music theory is ... is like git. The underlying framework is pretty nice and based on only a small set of basic principles. But the user interface is badly designed and none the tutorials explain it well.

Once you understand the basic principles, you're good. But no one has figured out how to explain things to a new person.

But since you can't get much use out of music theory without going through some user interface (a particular instrument or notation), you also need to learn how it's laid out (how one maps onto the other, really). But maybe something like this keyboard could be an interesting teaching tool?

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