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Old 04.14.2006, 02:59 PM   #1
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note/scale colors

i guess this is too subjective, but it's also interesting i think.



C - black
D - dark purple (also Dmin)
E - yellow (gold)
F - purple or grey, again (perhaps from the Dmin chord)
G - green
A - red ( I also picture the Amin scale as red; Cmaj is blue)
B - brown

Sol# - some sort of earth color, I connect it w/ Mi-maj

so do you have any color-note relations?
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Old 04.14.2006, 03:25 PM   #2
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I don't associate any colors with notes or chords.
It doesn't make sense to me in an equal tempered system.

Check out Scriabin, though.
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Old 04.14.2006, 04:01 PM   #3
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I have associated colors with letters because of these rainbow blocks I had as a baby.

A - red, B - orange, C - yellow, D - green, E - blue, F - purple, G - red
So I guess it would be the same with notes.
I'd probably see the G note as being more of a burgundy color and the A note more of a fire engine red.

Maybe. I don't think by hearing these notes that I would pick a particular color... same with chords.
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Old 04.14.2006, 04:02 PM   #4
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I agree with E and A. I always associate songs with colors.
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Old 04.14.2006, 04:15 PM   #5
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Synaethesia. I suspect those for whom coloursounds makes sense have mild synaesthesia. Which is a good thing to have. But I don't have it.

*Edit: I should've read the link first...
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Old 04.14.2006, 09:56 PM   #6
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i dont know which notes i'm playing on bass and i like it that way.

If i had to describe the colors i play on bass they would be black, poo brown and red.
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Old 04.15.2006, 04:49 PM   #7
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Interesting topic.

I don't think I can associate colors with notes.
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Old 04.15.2006, 04:52 PM   #8
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I think I read that synaesthesia often occurs to manic-depressed people, I don't know if that's true.
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Old 04.16.2006, 01:35 PM   #9
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when I play I usually like most all the warm and violent colors.
so I mainly use slack tunings then I always try to be tuned on colors even because I dont know too much about conventional music.
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I always associate songs with colors.

Yeah so do i. Like the song "i talk to the wind" by king crimson, makes me think of a dripping bluey/purple across a picture of a woman with very long dark hair, tied round, sitting cross legged in a field of long green grass, with a guitar and a white see thru robe, and the sun beaming. Thats just a mental image i get whenever i lisen to it.
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