The short and simple explanation of the jammerShould you ever be possessed of the need to explain it quickly, here’s the TV-news-sound-bite way to do it: First,
In music’s all-important, major scale the important notes are the white
notes on a piano. But; when laid out in a line like that, they are hard
and slow to play, as:
It’s an honest-to-goodness elitist, albeit inadvertent, conspiracy. So so does one fix it? First, you move the keys around a bit. If you stack them so they are closer together, and especially put notes that usually are played together, in various combinations, close together. Added bonus #1: often they can be played with one finger. Bonus #2: this also makes the fingering consistent, so you need only learn one fingering, not twelve. Bonus #4: We can put an on extra set of keys on the other side to make them easy to reach. Thus automatically springs into existence a "Sharp" and a "flat" section, because this thing is built around music theory.
And that's why I'm so keen on the jammer: it's simple enough for even yours truly to understand. For more: Explained in Easier to Learn? and Building a better keyboard are the detailed (many would say pedantic) rationale behind the design of the Jammer’s seemingly weird key layout. |
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