minstrel: ladders and code and B#s etc.

[Blue]

Hmm, some of the explanations went right over my head too!

I'm wondering if what you should be looking at is the moveable doh system, 
or the solfa or solfege method of music? Its more normally used for 
singers, but teaches the *relationship* between notes rather than the names 
and keys etc... I don't really know much about it but a quick websearch 
gleaned enough to suggest it might be worth your researching to see if it 
matches what your brain wants as music sense :)

Personally I look at music notation and all the silly rules as a necessary 
evil to get music from the printed page into my head and out to my 
instrument when I'm not playing by ear - but I didn't use to think that, 
maybe I'm getting addled as I age! :)

Blue

At 14:29 01/10/02 -0700, david ball wrote:
>As the infamaious "original person", I am most gratified by all responses, 
>though mystified by some. My plan for the moment is to keep playing my 
>ugly duckling flute o'plumbing as I find it oddly soothing during a time 
>in my life that is currently stressful in the extreme.... But I still 
>think that some variation of "do-ray-me" notation would have to fit my 
>style of thinking about music far better than all of this (to me) overly 
>complex notation for playing what is essentially rather simple music.