Download Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas easy violin sheet music, watch a helpful tutorial video, and gain practice insight to learn this song.
Let’s learn Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas! This song is great for beginner violin players: the smooth melody and relaxed tempo feel calm, and you’ll get a lot of practice creating phrases and using your bow expressively.
Violin Sheet Music
This easy arrangement of Colors of the Wind is in the key of C Major, making it great for beginners who have been playing for at least a few months, and are ready to play music without sharps.
Take a listen to the arrangement here:
- violin solo
- violin + piano accompaniment
- piano accompaniment
Piano Accompaniment
Colors of the Wind sounds beautiful with piano accompaniment. You can download the piano backing track for free here:
Piano Accompaniment – Audio Recordings (.mp3)
Colors of the Wind – Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz
Violin Tutorial
Colors of the Wind is the theme song from Disney’s Pocahontas, released in 1995. It was written by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, and performed by Judy Kuhn in the movie.
The lyrics were inspired by Native American writings and transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson, and it went on to win an Academy Award, a Grammy, and a Golden Globe award.
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Watch the tutorial above to get a feel for how this works on the violin. First I play through the arrangement with piano accompaniment, then we can practice slowly together. Next you’ll hear the piano backing track slowed down; then we’ll finish out with a full tempo play through and full tempo piano accompaniment.
Practice Tips for Colors of the Wind
Before you dive in, let’s talk about the best ways to practice the song.
1. Key signature: C Major
This arrangement of Colors of the Wind is in the key of C Major, which means there are no sharps or flats at the start of the music between the treble clef and time signature.
It’s great to warm up with the C Major scale slowly before starting to learn the piece. It’ll help you remember where exactly to place your fingers to play in tune, and you can use the scale to focus on other difficult techniques like tone, posture, and even different rhythms.
You can download the C Major scale warmup sheet for free here:
C Major Scales, Arpeggios
and a Bonus Exercise
2. Use bow placement to shape phrases
Phrases are like sentences in music. They’re ideas that have a start, a middle, and an end. If you know the words to this song, you can even try matching your musical phrases to the lyrical sentences!
We can use our bow placement to change the color and strength of our sound on the violin. Try placing your bow a little closer to the bridge for a louder, fuller sound, or closer to the fingerboard for a softer, lighter sound.
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Remember to purchase your copy of Colors of the Wind and download the free C Major scale warmup before you go. Happy practicing!
Piano Accompaniment – Audio Recordings (.mp3)
Colors of the Wind – Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz
