Do you see colors...

when you hear music?
 
I'm sorry if I've asked this before...may be just a Deja Vu but
anyway...
 
I've seen teaching methods that are based on one getting use
to seeing a color when hearing a particular chord or altered chord.
 
I guess many do or can because of the "biggy" most have probably heard..."the brown sound"- when
talking about EVH's guitar.
 
So what color is a major?
What color is minor?
 
Somewhere....over the...nevermind.

Black, black, black, I just see BLAAAAACCKKK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRJxafiqHvw

I don't. I wish I did. I've tried to.
I think it's a very interesting concept- linking sight and sound.
Not sure if it's something that be acquired with practice....I don't
know how to practice it so I haven't.

Here's something I copied....
There are numerous arbitrary arrangements setting forth the mutual relationships of the planets, the colors, and the musical notes. The most satisfactory system is that based upon the law of the octave. The sense of hearing has a much wider scope than that of sight, for whereas the ear can register from nine to eleven octaves of sound the eye is restricted to the cognition of but seven fundamental color tones, or one tone short of the octave. Red, when posited as the lowest color tone in the scale of chromatics, thus corresponds to do, the first note of the musical scale. Continuing the analogy, orange corresponds to re, yellow to mi, green to fa, blue to sol, indigo to la, and violet to si (ti). The eighth color tone necessary to complete the scale should be the higher octave of red, the first color tone. The accuracy of the above arrangement is attested by two striking facts: (1) the three fundamental notes of the musical scale--the first, the third, and the fifth--correspond with the three primary colors--red, yellow, and blue; (2) the seventh, and least perfect, note of the musical scale corresponds with purple, the least perfect tone of the color scale.

dlogan


Not since I stopped taking acid. I don't see dancing bears anymore either.

Why? Was it bad for your smile?

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I see colors
And so do you
     ~Bapu

Don't you mean hues hueues?

"...and that, Old55, is how we come up with colors for new car models."

Wookiee

But to reach the chord is our life's hope
And to name the chord is important to some
So they give it a word,and the word is...

Graeme

Somehow I feel slightly disappointed.

Me too.....and don't know why.

jamesg1213

Wookiee

But to reach the chord is our life's hope
And to name the chord is important to some
So they give it a word,and the word is...

Graeme

Somehow I feel slightly disappointed.

Applogies
 
OM

The rain is on the roof
Hurry high, butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skies all cry

OM
OM
Heaven
OM

The Earth turns slowly round
Far away a distant sound
Is with us everyday
Can you hear, what it say?

OM
OM
Heaven
OM

The rain is on the roof
Hurry high, butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skies all cry

OM
OM
Heaven
OM

 
Mike Pinder.

bapu


Yeah, but they were high when they wrote those songs, no?

Now thats a novelty fancy a musician getting high and writing music something I have just never heard of before.

UbiquitousBubba


I don't really think it's fair to place all of the responsibility of Jon Anderson's lyrics on mind altering substances.

So some of the blame goes directly to him?


Makes sense (unlike his lyrics).

UbiquitousBubba


Mind altering substances have to have something to work with.  In Bapu's case, they wouldn't have much to go on.

Corrected.

FWIW there is more to the color thing than I know.

Some say you can get by with just the blues.