Ever wonder how western music notation came to be as we know it today? This quick look by 12tone shows the evolutionary process.

Music notation is really useful, and most musicians are so used to it we don't give it a second thought anymore, but, like, it's kinda weird, right? It's a bunch of dots and lines and somehow those represent sounds, and the way they're shaped and how we arrange them can let us communicate some incredibly complicated musical ideas.