Use Negative Harmony in under 2 minutes.
Channel: Andy Chamberlain Music
Date: 2020-12-13

The HOW and the WHAT, but not the why.

You don't always need to know the theory behind a technique; sometimes you just want to do it! Many people get stuck on the theory and can't get past it, to the usage. So here's how to use negative harmony, straight and to the point.

Okay, but I want to know the background! Give me the why!
12tone's video is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF8CdxcdJgw

Doing negative harmony is sometimes tedious! Here's a tool to massively speed it up.

Flippr: https://chambercode.com/music/flippr

Some may wonder why I don't address other axes that are sometimes used under the name "negative harmony". This is because, 99% of the time, if someone says "negative harmony", they are referring to the Jacob Collier/Steve Coleman/Ernst Levy version. Exploring other pivots is really interesting (and easy to do with Flippr ;) but the term "negative harmony" almost always is used to denote flipping around the neutral third.

And crucially, if someone is flipping chords around the neutral third, they are definitely using negative harmony. There might also be other ways to use negative harmony, but this video is "how to use" not "every way to use". Lets not affirm the consequent here ;)

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