kat, I can really sympathize with folks who don't understand all this half step/keyboard stuff. When "they" start talking about open strings I just glaze over. *BG*

I'm so intuned to the piano, for me to transcribe a MIDI, I have to listen to it on the computer here upstairs, then run downstairs to play it on the piano. It is soooooooo easy and intuitive on the piano, but a foreign language just listening or seeing the dots. That's why I'm envious of people who can play any instrument "by ear" without really reading music.