And I know hundreds of kids that learned how to play music without ever learning.

Though I learned how to play music (in some capacity) before I'd even attempted to learn where the notes were in 'standard notation' as a early teen. Now if you are taking a music production class you do have a point. I still think it is the way to teach the kids. My daughter loves the active pen for AP Walton You might be right, but in school for band and orchestra, notation is the way the kids learn to read and play music. The other teacher was impressed and wished all the kids got chromebooks with active pens. I think one of the teachers thought my kids were cheating somehow. Anyway several teachers asked my kids how they did the work so fast? Both took screenshots and pictures from there phones to demonstrate how they did the work. I know some chromebooks have active pens to, but the school doesn't have the budget for those. Both of my girls use their Windows 10 2n1 laptops and do the writing/annotating right on the screen. My daughters are doing remote learning now for High School and have chromebooks issued to them. Have to agree if CbB gave it some attention it would be great for schools that are on Windows 10 and not chromebooks. We don't want Cakewalk to become a full fledged notation program all we have been asking for is some fixes and refinement. I have been saying this for years Yet when it is brought up, the argument against it is a DAW not a notation program Schools will eat it up and you will have users for life.

Get the notation end up to be more usable midi input and workable as a visual aid.

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