“Makes things simple….” Me: *drools blankly*

It's definitely important to know how to find individual notes, but it's also worth emphasizing the fact that because intervals in pitch correspond to intervals in position on the keyboard, you quickly learn where your perfect fifth, perfect fourth, major and minor thirds are, etc. and then you can form chord shapes and put them anywhere. So there's a lot less need to think about what note each individual key is, if you're thinking in terms of what chords you're playing or what scale you're playing in. You kind of need to know where the tonic of the scale you're in is, or what the roots of chords are, but the individual notes in chords or scales you're used to, you don't have to think about -- they're just consequences of the shapes and your starting point. If you're like me, you'll more often find yourself thinking in the opposite direction: you'll know what notes to play because of their relative location and the shapes they make - the intervals and chord structure - and you'll only bother to figure out which exact notes those are when you're trying to communicate them to other people. I can put a Dmaj7 chord on the keyboard (just find D and place the chord shape) several times faster than it takes me to think through what individual notes are in a Dmaj7 chord, and even when I figure that out now (D F# A C#), there will be a shape on a hexagonal grid in my head, because it's such a nice representation to work with once you get used to it. This also applies to the ways in which you're moving between chords. The ways in which the shapes move and change also correspond to the way that the chord changes sound and feel, and as your brain builds that connection, note letters or even scale degrees will begin to seem like a bit of a clunky tool mostly for communicating the shapes in your head to others.

Hexagons are the bestagons!

Of course, I went with the Bosanquet layout but starting on A instead of C.

So good! I have actually wondered this exact thing watching the other videos on this channel. Great editing and examples, too. Thank you.

I like this better than standard tuning tbh

Thank you!

Me, colourblind, cry.

I think one thing that could have made this video even simpler is pointing out that in Bosanquet-Wilson, the natural notes, sharp notes and flat notes always have the same positions, and I think seeing that central "set" of 5 sharps + 7 naturals + 5 flats really helps orient oneself in any tuning with an okay perfect fifth. Even though the tuning of those central 17 notes shifts around depending on the exact size of the perfet fifth, all of our usual functional melody and harmony still works in much the same way, while smaller commas can help us distinguish different intonations in larger tunings. I've found I can use the colours to remind myself about intonation, e.g. cooler colours = slightly lower in pitch and warmer colours = slightly higher in pitch, while white = naturals and black = splitting the difference, like on the piano keyboard. Which gives me an idea for a video or slideshow moving between tunings from narrow to wide fifths, where we see those central 17 notes slowly change intonation, and other notes slowly morphing around them as we move through the usual diatonic range...

Ia there a way to selectively illuminate only the notes you want for a particular scale? This would be a great feature... i want one but frankly im intimidated by the number of keys and how theyre organized

Why for the 12 TET the C sounds normal , but for the 31- TET the C sounds like C# ?

Will there be a cheaper version of this device for musicians interested in making microtonal music?

I have a question, why do some notes sound off tune? Love the instrument no hate❤❤

I play a 5 row chromatic button accordion but the layout of your keyboard confuses me.

Excuse me, **A DOUBLE SHARP???**

make this not 3500$ and i will buy one

Have you sent one to Jacob Collier yet?

One minute in…and I’m confused…

I'm desperately trying not to buy one of these, please don't do some videos with spectrasonics products like keyscape and omnisphere, it will force my hand for sure