So we’ve been playing the notes in each major scale. And they all follow this same pattern of whole-steps and half-steps.

But as you’ve been going through each scale (1, 2, 3, 4 … 5, 6, 7, 8), you might have started thinking, “Hey … what about those other notes? The ones we don’t include in the major scale. If they’re not numbered 1 through 8, then what do we call them?”

Well, I’m glad you asked … because the answer is simple. You see, the major scale is so important that each note in that pattern gets its own number name. But the other notes (the ones you skip) have their own names, too. Musicians just use the old “sharp” (#) and “flat” (b) symbols to tell them apart. It works like this:

In any key (that is, when any note is labeled “1”), the note lower than two is called “b2” … while the note lower than three is called “b3” … and the note lower than five is called “b5” … and so on. It’s basic, really.

But honestly, I wouldn’t blame you if these musical terms sounded a little strange. I mean, who came up with the name “flat-five”? Really! It’s not that these notes and intervals are hard to understand … they’re not. It’s just that musicians have a weirdway of talking.

Of course, that’s not a problem for us. Because with Color Music, learning the language of music is easy. In fact, it’s almost painfully easy. You see, color and music are just different languages telling the exact same story. By using color (which we already understand) … we can easily learn to speak like a musician. Here, let me show you….