It’s the holidays in Color Music® land. Which means great music is in the air, the world is full of bright colors, and Santa’s elves have been busy. You might even say they’ve been rockin’ around the X-mas tree. How do I know this? Because I found these super cool tree ornaments when I woke up

This post is continued from “Consonance and Dissonance (Part 3)“ Using Color Music, we can actually see the pattern of consonant and dissonant intervals. And without a doubt, the connection between complementary colors and tritones is awesome. But we can see even more. For example, check out the gradation bar below. It highlights exactly what’s

This post is continued from “Consonance and Dissonance (Part 2)“ With Color Music, our spectrum of consonant and dissonant intervals starts to click. In the key of C, for example, we get a much better view of what this pattern is all about. Of course, these colors may seem random at first. But as you

Topic: Make your own color wheel Supplies: One (1) copy of the color wheel kit PDF printout Six (6) colored pencils (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) One (1) regular pencil or pen Scissors One (1) paper clip (bigger is better, but any clip will work) Vocabulary: color wheel square primary colors secondary colors complementary

Of all the Disney Pixar movies, what do you think is the best one? A lot of people would say “Toy Story,” while others would say “Cars.” And I’d have to agree that these films are pretty great. I mean, it’s like Pixar has the Midas touch—because nearly every one of their projects is pure

After playing through each major scale progression, you might have noticed something cool. For some crazy reason, Mother Nature totally loves us. Instead of throwing us some curveball, she decided to make things easy. When it comes to chord progressions, we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Because they’re really just based on the same,

Chord progressions are really easy to play. And that’s because they’re based on the old, familiar scale patterns we already know. Using the C major scale, for example, we can come up with a chord progression that sounds awesome. We simply build one chord on the tonic (1) note … and another on the major-second

We all know that different artists like working with certain types of media. For example, painters prefer paint … welders prefer metal … and musicians prefer sound. But recently, I saw some really cool artwork made out of unusual stuff: hair. That’s right, we’re looking at a giraffe sculpted from this woman’s hair. It’s crazy. I was

It’s fun to add chords to a song. Because each one helps “fatten out” the melody and propel the music forward. But at some point, you may be wondering how we decide on which chords to use. In other words, do we just randomly throw chords into a song … or is there some logic

Back in the day, I used to be a big fan of candy. If something had sugar in it, I ate it. We’re talking Skittles, Starbursts, M&Ms, gum drops, jelly beans … you name it. Lately, though, I’ve been sticking to my fruits and vegetables … although I still get my colored sweets through music.