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Originally Posted by sakeido  I am not so sure about that. It is very easy to adapt our music into their systems (from what I have learned so far) but much more difficult to adapt their music to ours, since we do not have fractional steps like they do. If anything, they might be floored by how simplistic and uncomplicated our music theory is  |
I disagree that our theory is simplistic comparatively, although there's no real objective way to figure that out. I would just consider how extremely difficult it can be for me to explain musical ideas to friends of mine who are not musicians. Even the things that seem very easy to grasp for me can be difficult for them because they don't think about music in that way. Wouldn't it be the same for someone who thinks of music but only in non-western ways?