[grawprog]

Depends. Different tones outside of the normal musical keys have colours they just tend to be less distinct, more blends of other colours' incorrect notes in the middle of a performance are kind of like someone taking random colours and throwing them on a painting.

I dunno it's hard to describe, the overall key of a song provides...uh the background colour I guess...while the actual notes and chords played are where the actual pictures come from. So a note from the wrong key or something is the wrong colour. It just kind of sticks out in a bad way from the rest.

I dunno. I'm sorry if that's kind of vague and unclear. It's a hard thing to describe. I never really thought about it until I started to get serious about learning music theory. I just always could guess when two songs were in the same key by their colour, but didn't actually know what those keys were.

It's not always straightforward, even the tempo makes a difference and different modes or even intervals can be different. Lower octaves are usually darker than higher ones. I really wish I could explain it better.

[soperj]

I think it's a pretty good explanation of a very strange phenomenon. It makes me wish I could experience it. I'm pretty tone deaf, and it took me years to figure out how to even tune my guitar properly (the breakthrough was being able to feel the vibrations through the neck of the guitar).

Do you get anything from the drums?