MUSICAL ILLUSTRATIONS
(this page is currently being updated)
The intent of these illustrations is to create shortcuts for learning music through use visual guides and sacred geometry. They integrate traditional Western musical knowledge with visual explorations in ways that uses other parts of the brain that aren't normally utilized in learning music.
Music is everywhere, on the radio, on the television, in the wind blowing in the trees, in the vocal compositions created evoked from emotional conversations. Music is a common language that every culture in the world has. Everyone is capable of musical expression. Our brains are wired for it; we create compositions within the changes of pitch and tones within our speaking. Some excel at making music, but we all have the potential for creating it even if not as a profession.
These illustrations are attempts to evolving music theory beyond the institutionalized mentality that the traditional music theory is complete and all theory knowledge acquired. The truth of it is that understanding is far different than knowledge. Though wonderful music can be made through recycling old music patterns and knowledge in new ways, the truth is that traditional music theory is a caged system that hasn't evolved for hundreds of years. Most have stopped exploring, except for a few pioneers. You can find a hundred-thousand music teachers out there who will all describe to their beginning students that a Major chord creates a "happy" sound, while a minor chord creates a "sad" or "somber" sound. It is safe to say that probably not one of them can tell you why or how it creates a happy or sad sound. How is it that some song make you want to dance in a passionate love for life, while others want to make you tear your hair out? This is the musical understanding that is missing from musical knowledge. This is the new evolution of music. Music is the voice of emotion, but we fail to understand the architecture to emotion let alone the architecture of sound. The study of music should be the study of life itself.
Some Older Music Illustrations for piano and guitar.
As this page is in revision, the following illustrations are of a much older nature with the latest one posted only happened in 2013. Though they haven't been counted, several hundred images is a safe estimate in the 9 years since the last one posted. This are all part of a musical matrix that will be automated in musical animations to teach the musical patterns to the sounds they create. Much of the newer music systems are being guarded from release to the public until the launch of the musical matrix. If you are interested in seeing more, that can be arranged with NA agreements. Please reach out if you would like to know about the new matrix that will be soon to come.
15 Patterns of 4 strings that can be played on the guitar. Left and right are symmetrical. 2 un-played notes forms the 15 patterns of 2 strings on the guitar.
CHAKRA CHORDS!!
24 Chords/ 12 Major and 12 Minor from the 24hr Chord Clock overlapped with the Chakra energy system. It uses a traditional approach a the C note as the Root Chakra and C Major scale as the Major Chakras. Symbols on right align with the functions of the chakras and bridge chakras. Each chord can then be defined by which energy centers they activate...in theory.
Semi-Older Illustrations to Older illustrations.
CHORD CLOCK
This Illustration is about 13 years old, give or take. It cycles the 24 chords of alternating Major and minor chords within music. The chord that comes next has two notes in common. The top two notes of one chord become the bottom two of the next chord. Ex:: CEG=> EGB=> GBD=> etc.. They loop of chords also cycles through the Major scales (minus the diminished chords). The sounds of neighboring chords are pleasant because of their common notes.
New evolutions of this have manifested since its creation to also include complex jazz chords up to 8 note chords.
PIANO SYMMETRY: Using the mirror points on the piano.
This illustration was created back in 2006ish with personal explorations of the concept of symmetry and how it can apply to all facets of our life. This is a simple visual guide to understanding the basic concepts of it upon the piano. "Musical Symmetry" is not something taught in traditional music theory, but there are many types of symmetry within music just as there are many types of symmetry within life.
GUITAR FRETBOARD REVITALIZED: The following images of the guitar dissections are from some of the first musical explorations from around 2001-2002, later created into digital about 2005. While this might not be the best starting point for learning guitar, it is helpful to learn the symmetry of the white vs. black notes, naturals vs. sharps/flats.
