![]() ![]() not C maj, A min, etc.) we treat the sharps and flats as exceptions to the rule we learned. So when we read a score in some key that has sharps and flats (i.e. Except when it's got this doohicky on it, then it's a B flat." Which is baked right into our notational system: "This line is B. When we do learn about sharps and flats, they're presented as exceptions to what happens normally. We learned our "Every Good Boy Does Fine" and so forth before we learned our sharps and flats. Yes, I think it's generally true for a simple reason: we all (well just about all) learn to read the notes of the staff initially in their default, natural position. As you get more comfortable reading music, a piece that you thought was in a harder key to play might have just been harder for you to sight read initially and is actually easier to play then something in then a key with less accidentals. There's another side of this question that I can understand especially when I was first learning to read music which is as you deal with more accidentales pieces get harder to read and that is understandable especially when you have a lot of accidentals outside they key you are in. For example the first instrument I learned was the trumpet which is a Bb instrument so for me the first songs I learned were in Bb which were very easy to play on the trumpet. There are even transposing instruments that are built to play in a certaint key natrually that isn't in the key of C so for some instruments playing in the key of C, which has no sharps or flats, is actually harder. Every instrument has keys that are easy to play and and keys that are not very easy to play in. ![]()
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