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96.172Visual keyboard geography

Eventually:

I-IV-V should feel as shapes/relationships.

Not calculations.

For example in any key:

IV root = perfect fourth above tonic.

V = fifth.

ii = whole step above tonic.

vi = major sixth.

This spatial familiarity accelerates response.