In music, intervals are everything. You could say they're more important that the notes themselves. But they're also confusing for one main reason ... because of the numbers we use to label them. So let's take a closer look at these symbols to really make sense of them.
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Has anyone done a color analysis of songs written by the band King Crimson? It would be amazing to see any of their songs looked at and understood using the color wheel to understand their unique and complex music.
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Hey, i love this and have some cuestions for the course. for lesson 1 exersices we are told to play each C note or each A note and so on for the 12 notes. how long should one wait between going from one lesson to another? lesson 1 exersices says play each c note on the fret and so on. should we learn this religiousily now? og do it a couple of time but then we will learn it better during other exersizses later on. so the mail question is how long to exersice untill going to the next lesson
Music theory is NOT confusing ... but the SYMBOLS people typically use to understand it are.
In this video, we look at how to quickly understand the patterns of music using COLORS and SHAPES.
https://youtube.com/live/mSWUhD0wDiQ
In other posts here, I explain the benefit of color to see music theory. But people often ask, “… but what’s up with the shapes? Why also use these alternating squares and circles?”
So here’s a synopsis of why the shapes are so helpful, which summarizes key points in the video.
Traditionally, musicians try to picture the invisible patterns of sound using uniform black dots … along with letter and number symbols:
The result is a visually complex system of blotches and squiggles that’s confusing and even counterintuitive.
But when you get down to it, the two most fundamental labels used to communicate musical ideas is those letters and numbers.
And together, these two symbol sets — letters and numbers — are meant to illustrate the musical relationships or patterns, which is what music is all about.
But while the letters do at least a decent job of distinguishing each note from the next — like C versus C# versus D, etc. — the colors visually clarify which notes are which more vividly and immediately.
And the color-note assignments here are based on applying the color wheel to the circle of fifths — where both patterns follow the exact same structure and sequence.
For example, in the center image below, the major scales of each key overlap in music to form the circle of fifths. And just as all the keys in music form this daisy-chain pattern, all the colors in the color wheel also bleed seamlessly into one another....
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