HARMONIC WHEEL
The new instrument of musicians

As in every art, the practice of Music requires some creative skills as well as a good sense of aesthetics and proportion. Moreover, in most cases it requires a good interpretative talent. And finally, it requires a technical, even mathematical, knowledge, which deals with intervals, scales, keys, chords, arpeggios, etc., all of which confers the music a distinctive character with respect to the rest of the arts.

The study of this technical part usually takes several years and, frequently, it is not learnt in an orderly and unified way. On the contrary, it is viewed as a set of independent subjects, without any logical relationship among them. Questions such as “the order of sharps and flats” or “the particular whole and half step succession in a Major scale” are learnt by heart and only in a few cases the reason is understood. On the other hand, many concepts in Music Theory and Harmony that are perfectly understood in the C Major key, are not so obvious when dealing with key signatures having 5 or 6 accidentals.

With the objective of sorting out all those technical contents, as well as to facilitate the use of key signatures with an arbitrary number of accidentals, the so called HARMONIC WHEEL has been designed, a new easy-to-use instrument which contains a large quantity of detailed musical information.

The Harmonic Wheel has been presented in several Conservatories and Musical Societies, as well as in specialized music stores, and it has been greatly appreciated.