Boo fucking hoo, technology is making music more accessible and removing the barriers associated with sheet music. Fire is scary and Thomas Edison was a witch.
Yes, I said barriers.
Not everyone is great at reading sheet music. I started playing piano when I was four and I still absolutely SUCK at sheet music. It’s just never clicked for me. I can identify notes, given enough time, but it takes me forever to learn a new piece, I often have to literally mark what a note is, and sight-reading is incredibly far beyond me. If I had access to this, maybe I would still be playing piano instead of just letting it gather dust in the spare room. Maybe I would still be improving my skills. Heck, maybe I could use it as a tool to IMPROVE MY SHEET MUSIC READING.
Think of how accessible this makes piano music to the sight-impaired. How much easier it is to see those colored bars and lit keys than the little dots on little lines on a page.
Stairs didn’t go out of style because we invented escalators. Books didn’t go out of style because Kindles are a thing. Sheet music isn’t going to just up and vanish because there’s a new alternative on the block. You can keep playing from sheet music if that’s your thing, and people will keep learning from it.
But I can see this being fantastic for people who sheet music just really isn’t their thing, because of accessibility or other reasons.
plus it turns this into a game of piano-hero which is sick as frick
did he just make that wonder woman case special only to keep it empty for a fucking dramatic reveal
HAVE YOU SEEN BATMAN WORK? HE IS LITERALLY LIKE, 90% REVEAL
What bugs me about this is Wonder Woman totally has a kryptonite, and Batman was willing to use it against her.
JLA: Tower of Babel. Great comic. Ra’s Al-Ghul has a super secret plan to destroy written language, but needs to keep the heroes busy. His solution?
Steal Batman’s fail-safes and use them.
They’re pretty fucked up. He lights Martian Manhunter on fire, freezes Plastic Man with liquid nitrogen, and fucking steal’s Batman’s parents. Yeah, graverobbing. That’s not even getting into literally dehydrating Aquaman.
Wonder Woman’s weakness? Weirdly badass.
He forces her into a simulation where she’s up against an villain who is in every way her equal. Why does that take her out? Because Wonder Woman is so dedicated to justice and finishing the fight, that she will literally exhaust herself to death fighting.
Wonder Woman’s weakness is that she. will. not. fucking. STOP. Even if it kills her. And that’s why she’s the best hero around.