I have no idea what I'm talking about, but that's never stopped me before...
I was thinking about the layout of the notes on the guitar and the fact that barre cords are moveable.
And kind of wondering why it's so easy to transpose keys on the guitar but so difficult on a piano. Then I came to the conclusion that a piano is laid out diatonically - the keys are laid out so that the tone tone semi-tone tone tone tone semi-tone is part of the key structure (white and black keys). Whereas on the guitar it's semi-tone semi-tone semi-tone... etc - chromatically.
It means that the guitar player has to learn the pattern of the different scales but doesn't have to learn a new pattern for each key.
The piano player can see the pattern of the scale laid out in black and white (at least for the key of C) but has to relearn the pattern for each key.
I saw an African xylophone the other day that was laid out chromatically - ie, no differentiation between black and white keys(maybe all xylophones are that way
) and I was wondering if it is easier to learn than a piano.
I wonder if anyone ever made a piano laid out chromatically rather than diatonically?
I wonder if anyone cares?
dum de dum...