Novello pioneered a visual method for understanding intervals and chords by their shape on the keyboard. Instead of memorizing abstract formulas (e.g., "a minor 7th is 1-b3-5-b7"), he teaches you to see the geometry of the keyboard. This accelerates sight-reading and transposition dramatically.
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