Current Video & New Video Update (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

I thought I'd provide a quick update to let you know how things are going.

First, about my current video: apart from some grading work and sound mixing, it is complete. I'll be posting it on Patreon next week - a few weeks before I post it on YouTube. It's 47 minutes long, so quite meaty and I'm very happy with how it turned out.

Second, I am deep into a new script on the topic of notation - and how it always seems to be under attack. In particular, I look at the numerous times various technologists have derided notation as 'inefficient' and inspect their claims that notation is the reason why people give up learning an instrument.

A substantial part of the video involves a dive into reforms and alternative notation systems that have been proposed over the last 20 years, as well as quite a few really weird (and also ingenious) ones that have been proposed over the last 300 years (IMO, the best stuff happened during the 19th century). Bitching about notation is not a new phenomenon. If anything, we're currently experiencing a quiet period right now...

Of course, I give some special love to a variety of crappy learning apps that claim to replace notation outright (for a 'small' subscription fee) but are demonstrably useless. I also give a well-earned kick to a few loud mouths whose arguments have nothing to do with notation but seem to be founded on nothing more than a vague dislike of classical music because... aristocracy or something.

Apart from that, I'll be delving a little bit into ancient greek notation, Gregorian / plainchant neumes and I'll also spend much more time than you'd reasonably expect discussing chess and dentistry.

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Bonus: I'll also be appearing on Linus Boman's channel once he passes 100K in a few weeks. The video is a chat between the two of us about how we work and how we balance our family lives with our YouTube lives. You may or may not like it... and THAT'S A PROMISE!