I've been avoiding learning anything about this for a while now. My guitar player mentioned it to me today and I had to tackle it all head on. Studied for hours , got it mint, but MAN I wish your video popped up first haha. Excellent explanations, you can clearly play, and I love it since you touch on a lot of the concepts and actual detail of why it ends up functioning the same way we're used to....thanks so much for putting this up man.
Wow, though it may sound confusing to some people, to me this is the most interesting and usefull video on negative harmony so far... thank you for this Jack!
*One thing: for giant steps example, a more accurate way of analyzing it would be to shift pitch axis every time there's a key change.(all of these are in 2nd inversion over the fifth) So: Bmb6, Cmin6, Gmb6, Abmin6, Ebmb6, --F6, Cm6, Gmb6 .... that's a more accurate way of viewing it in negative than what I wrote at the time
I don´t understand why don´t you change the axis when the song modulates in all the things. Bars 6,7,8 modulate to C but you didn´t change the axis. Same with the next 8 bars and bridge
Great question. You want to set the axis based on the main key that the song is in, and use that axis even for when it modulates. The reason is this: let's say we changed the axis during that section you mentioned modulating to C. It would just become an F-6 to C minor and would just be parallel minor, as opposed to the mirror sound of Am6 going to Emb6. See 7:55 for "Backwards scale", since the original key is Abmajor and the modulating Key is Cmajor which is a major 3rd up, we must now go a major 3rd Down to the note E to keep the mirror harmony. Changing the axis entirely would not allow for that. Make sense? (For a song like giant steps, see my comment below where i updated something, that song is one specific case where you do have to chagne the axis for each key change since giant steps has 3 equally distant keys, meaning it's not actually in any one key)
Probably one of the rare videos on youtube that explains it accurately. Excellent job
I've been avoiding learning anything about this for a while now. My guitar player mentioned it to me today and I had to tackle it all head on. Studied for hours , got it mint, but MAN I wish your video popped up first haha. Excellent explanations, you can clearly play, and I love it since you touch on a lot of the concepts and actual detail of why it ends up functioning the same way we're used to....thanks so much for putting this up man.
Hey Dom thanks so much! Glad to hear it man
I’m so glad I found this video thanks for your explanation, the mirror tritone that does 4m to 1 is like what some called the “backdooor”
Wow, though it may sound confusing to some people, to me this is the most interesting and usefull video on negative harmony so far... thank you for this Jack!
You bet! Feel free to share it w/ anyone who you think would get something out of it
Really well done. Thanks.
Much appreciated man!
*One thing: for giant steps example, a more accurate way of analyzing it would be to shift pitch axis every time there's a key change.(all of these are in 2nd inversion over the fifth) So: Bmb6, Cmin6, Gmb6, Abmin6, Ebmb6, --F6, Cm6, Gmb6 .... that's a more accurate way of viewing it in negative than what I wrote at the time
I don´t understand why don´t you change the axis when the song modulates in all the things. Bars 6,7,8 modulate to C but you didn´t change the axis. Same with the next 8 bars and bridge
Great question. You want to set the axis based on the main key that the song is in, and use that axis even for when it modulates. The reason is this: let's say we changed the axis during that section you mentioned modulating to C. It would just become an F-6 to C minor and would just be parallel minor, as opposed to the mirror sound of Am6 going to Emb6. See 7:55 for "Backwards scale", since the original key is Abmajor and the modulating Key is Cmajor which is a major 3rd up, we must now go a major 3rd Down to the note E to keep the mirror harmony. Changing the axis entirely would not allow for that. Make sense? (For a song like giant steps, see my comment below where i updated something, that song is one specific case where you do have to chagne the axis for each key change since giant steps has 3 equally distant keys, meaning it's not actually in any one key)
The frequent back and forward scrolling is really annoying.