u/kagoolx

We’re a 40 year old couple recently moved to Manchester city centre.

Doing the obvious stuff to meet people (joining events, book clubs, etc.) with varying success. Would love to hear from others in a similar boat, your experience doing similar (or if you’d like to join us as we build our social group up here just message me)

We’re into hiking, music (playing/writing/performing), boozing, book club type vibes, science/tech geekery, travel, generally having a laugh. Thanks!

I’ve never found an explanation that I can get my head around.

This seems self evident to pianists that I know, but as a guitarist, the names of the notes are basically arbitrary to me.

So I’ll explain a song like “It starts with Emaj, then Bmaj, then Dbmin” and my pianist friend will say “you mean C#min.” And I’m thinking that’s just a different name for what I just said, why do you sometimes choose to call it by the other name?!

If someone can finally help me understand this please, it’d be a great help. Thanks!