well, as promised in the previous blog -- how to spot musical notes in colors and life..... now one time, although i was never much of a musical guy -- i did learn how to play mickey mouse club and god save the king (british national anthem) and simple things like that in a year spent playing saxophone as an 11 year old (going on twelve).....
well years later (about 7)..... after much pot smoking and precious little music playing, all i had acquired was how to play the drums basically, after that..... i was listening to some australian/nz group and really kind of analyzing the 'feel' of the music, and comparing it with some very important ideas i had gleaned from a book about harmonics...... and so after giving it some thought, i had decided that that particular song, must have the 'e' note predominant in it..... then, after a while i asked my bff murphy if that was the case and he said it was..... murphy was and is a very capable guitarist and has been since he was a little kid and also knows how to recognize notes on hearing them........ but i never really did...... so was it a lucky guess?
maybe..... but it's irrelevant becoz by 'understanding' the 7 arquetypes or 'gods' (roman or greek) or 'planets' that constitute the 7 musical notes.... if you understand them in your own way.... it's like knowing them musically...... for example, in the old astrological system, the sun and the moon are counted as planets along with mars, saturn, venus, jupiter and mercury
each of these 7 'planets' corresponds to a musical note and color...... for example purple, at the end of the spectrum, would correspond to the musical note 'g' and the planet 'mars'..... entire nations vibrate to particular notes, so that the americans, for example, vibrate to this musical note 'g' which is why the term 'g-unit' seems especially apt...... the typical characteristics of 'mars' in astrology is the cancer (born after july 4) or the leo (born before august 26) type....... this is the typical 'potential self-master' types........ while the other six planets have unique and special talents.... the 'mars' type is really a different type, cut-out for work and potential self-mastery.....
i would have thought that a country like austria is ruled by the planet venus, the color orange and musical b flat and major..... whereas the germans, i would have thought, like the spaniards, must be ruled by saturn (blue - musical 'e' note)...
of course maybe there are other colors apart from these principal 7 and probably other notes too!
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