Comment by trane_project

We would be a much more musically proficient society if we stopped this obsession with teaching music through written notation and just taught music aurally from the beginning, and notation only later for those who need it. It made sense at a time where recordings were not easily available, but that is not the case now.

Western notation makes sense once you know the circles of fifths, but the specifics of the notation is not really what is holding people musically.