Our story

Love music theory?

The founders of Music Wallcharts

Music Wallcharts started in a classroom, with a teacher and a wall covered in posters that were technically correct but visually exhausting — dense, gray, and impossible for students to absorb at a glance.

We set out to design music theory resources the way the best information designers approach a subway map or a periodic table: with restraint, color used with intent, and a visual hierarchy that lets a student understand a concept in seconds and a teacher build a full lesson around it.

Today, our wallcharts hang in classrooms across the country — from Greiner Academy in Texas to Hartland School in Michigan to EMBER Choir in New York — and at major conferences like ACDA, where music educators come to find tools that work as well as they look.

Each chart pairs a museum-quality print with a QR-activated digital companion: lesson plans, listening examples, and short video walkthroughs that meet students wherever they are. The room where students learn should teach back. That's what these charts are built to do.

The Founders

Alistair Hamilton

Alistair Hamilton

Co-founder

Composer and educator. Designs the visual language behind every chart.

Andrew Abrahamsen

Andrew Abrahamsen

Co-founder

Music theorist and teacher. Leads the curriculum and digital classroom.