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Which Colors Correspond With Which Notes???

#81
retslock said:
One principle that has been tried is to take the bass frequency i.e. 41hz and keep doubling it until you get into the light frequency range then see what corresponds.
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= 704,374,636,544 = 704 ThZ or Violet

A = 55 Hz
so, 472,446,402,560 Hz is its corresponding Red

D = 73 Hz, corresponding to 627 ThZ or Blue

G = 98 Hz, the problem child
it's either 841 ThZ, which is over the range for colors
or 421 ThZ, which is under the range
 
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#83
Markamb1 said:
If I add 400 to the E of 41hz that’s 441 hz

The lowest measurement of nanometers is between 400 and 450 for violet

Lowest for the measurement of hz is 430 and 480 take away 400 and thats 30 to 80 e string starts at 41 fretted f is 43.... I think I took the 0 from 430 and matched that for my starting point. There were some weird relationships I was drawing to make sense of it...

For me without new information it’s either F or E for red.

The middle of that 430 and 480 is 455.... take away the 400 and thats 55hz which is also the frequency of the 5th fret e string....or open a which is A... the fact that everything is tuned to the 440 A made me think this too.

So A is a maybe....not a thrilling idea though...

I like instead either F or E staring the red colour.

Too tired... I’ll actually check whatever I just wrote tomorrow
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You start off mixing Hz (frequency) with wavelength (nanometers). These are of course related, but playing with those number interchangeably makes no sense.

If you have no inane sense of color relationship to music then it won't matter one bit. For a standard tuned bass start with red at E and go from there.
 
#84
I started a thread on synesthesia a few weeks ago elsewhere asking if anyone else “saw” bass lines themselves as having colors and if so, did it help in playing.

For instance, when playing bass everything I play is in colors and shapes (like line drawings) all over the fingerboard. It helps me remember sections - “Oh, it’s that light green steam engine part” or “this section is 2 red cat ears - one set of dark red tabby ears followed by the set bright red tabby ears and then there’s a grey garage slab.” (Note that these are actual examples - the first is a riff from Dream Theaters “Dance of Eternity” that I cover while the other is from a new cover I’m working on - Steve Vai’s “Fire Garden Suite - Bull Whip” - recording the vid for my channel today :hyper:).

I don’t know how colors get associated with notes or patterns and stuff but C is light green, G is medium green, F is silver and shimmers a bit, etc. (there no purple or yellow lines though, and some colors (red and green) have light and dark versions, blue is only one note F#). When the individual notes get strung together into patterns they literally become colored lines dominated by one main color but change colors with each section and resemble other things in my head - and that’s how I remember songs.

I can draw songs from the patterns line by line and know what song is what by looking at the drawings later, or see something like rooftops from British Row houses and think “Oh - that looks like the section from (whatever song)” or see a color and think “That’s from that Genesis song “One for the Vine.”

That’s how it works for me.
 
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#86
I see notes as colors sometines with shadows, like an aura.

E is maroon with a slightly lighter shade shadow
F is black with a Red shadow
G is kind of purple with a yellowish shadow
A is dark orange with a yellow shadow
B is royal blue with a black shadow
C is orange with a red shadow
D is light yellow with a white shadow

To me, the accidentals, just have a darker shade and shadow if flat, lighter if sharp. Yes, C# looks different than Db.

I also see the "right and wrong" notes over any particular chord change on my fretboard. Ironically, red is "right" and green is "wrong." And neighbor and leading tones temporarily turn yellow when I'm about to use them.
 
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I saw the concert by this composer, Mary Bichner, the first person I know of who uses her synesthesia and talkes about it...[Invalid or Expired Link Removed] Biography - Wassili Kandinsky is an artist who was concerned with the relationship of colors and sounds, I would say that every note I play has a visual aspect to it, but also in texture more than color. Colors emerge from chords and progressions, but every note has a texture. The Chinese system might also divide it into qualities like wet/dry, hot/cold, mettal/straw etc., and astrology can too with the qualities of fixed mutable and cardinal (initiating) as well as earthairwaterfire. Color charts have been used in all these systems.
 
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BassBrass said:
I saw the concert by this composer, Mary Bichner, the first person I know of who uses her synesthesia and talkes about it...[Invalid or Expired Link Removed] Biography - Wassili Kandinsky is an artist who was concerned with the relationship of colors and sounds, I would say that every note I play has a visual aspect to it, but also in texture more than color. Colors emerge from chords and progressions, but every note has a texture. The Chinese system might also divide it into qualities like wet/dry, hot/cold, mettal/straw etc., and astrology can too with the qualities of fixed mutable and cardinal (initiating) as well as earthairwaterfire. Color charts have been used in all these systems.
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Duke Ellington talked about textures as well, and that's something I often experience myself, unlike colors.

In Sweet Man: The Real Duke Ellington, author Don George recounts Ellington’s statements on how his synesthesia affected his music: “I hear a note by one of the fellows in the band and it’s one color. I hear the same note played by someone else and it’s a different color. When I hear sustained musical tones, I see just about the same colors that you do, but I see them in textures. If Harry Carney is playing, D is dark blue burlap. If Johnny Hodges is playing, G becomes light blue satin.”
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Source: 12 Famous Artists With Synesthesia
 
#99
Colour names are subjective. Robins are called robin redbreasts, despite having orange breasts, as orange didn't exist as a named colour at the time, until noranges became popular (later called oranges).

My wife is colour blind (blue/green) which causes confusion, and would cause issues for her in terms of colours of notes. It's just as well The Greens never took off as genre as she wouldn't be able to see the difference compared to The Blues.
 
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