> Which is a strange way to teach a system that essentially comes out of physics and arithmetic Oh boy, couldn't agree more, this has been a lifelong frustrati

> Which is a strange way to teach a system that essentially comes out of physics and arithmetic Oh boy, couldn't agree more, this has been a lifelong frustration for me as well: I've always been completely stumped by the utter lack of curiosity most musicians seem to have about that. There's a convention, just learn it, why IHN would you want to ask questions about this? Who cares about things like first principles anyways.