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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • As a computer musician: enough to construct a scale / mode and stay in it. Enough to construct chords. But I’ve never put the effort into learning notation because I don’t play an instrument (properly), and I’m grumpy about how much cruft there is in music theory. Like, the basic unit is the semitone, which should be called the whole tone. And the naming of intervals just pisses me off. “A fifth? Oh, that’s seven semitones.” Ugh. So I’ve never really advanced at chord theory.
    I did take an intro to music theory class in college, but I every-good-boy-does-fine’d my way through it and it didn’t really stick. I got a lot out of “How Music Really Works” by Wayne Chase, though. No notation.