How to Use Negative Harmony (EASY method)

[nihartley]

As a non pianist, I am even more confused

[blahblahblahidina]

As a pianist I find that approach much easier and not at all confusing, thanks!

[milko]

Negative harmony is fascinating. It would deserve a longer video

[jonarmstrong]

I'm convinced music theory is some form of ancient black magic. I just started studying it, and I'm amazed by it. It only took 57 years to get here.

[LivingPianosVideos]

The simple explanation for this is that major intervals become minor when they are inverted. This is in contrast to perfect intervals which remain perfect when they are inverted! Perfect intervals are prime (unison), 4th, 5th and octave. Major/minor intervals are 2nd, 3rd, 6th & 7th.

[SuonoReale]

Negative harmony is pretty useful for call-and-response phrases, too.

[davidsummerville]

perfect shirt to wear. black on one side, white on the other. major up, minor down. 😎🤓

[modalmixture]

What I like about this is your jazz ii-V-I in negative harmony turns into your gospel bVII-iv-I, with that lovely minor plagal.

[AliasgarVirdiwala]

Madam can you make a full video on nagative harmony? And how altering with nagative harmony would sound?

[andy-simmons]

Holy cow, this is way easier than trying to mirror the circle of 5ths in my head. Great tip. Thanks for this!!

[josephmathmusic]

If you symmetrize all notes with respect to D or G sharp you also preserve the colors or the keys!

[michaelmcglaughlin]

Negative harmony sounds really interesting, and I think I understand the concept of how to do/create it, but can someone explain when it should be used or what the point of it it is?

[kennethschweighardt]

How beautiful the chord progression at the end. Thank-you for sharing!

[tchaffman]

Lol YouTube seems to be full of videos explaining negative harmony but I have yet to find any videos where I can actually hear it used 🙃

[vladislavmatiusenco]

I like the fine details, like her shirt is half black half white

[ESKARGAMES]

This is about to open a rabbit hole for me, I’ve never heard of negative harmony before.

[C-wey]

That's how that's done? Wow, ok thank you! Simple -and explains a lot of how that sound is accomplished.

[_sonicfive]

Your BLACK & WHITE blouse Nahre!!
It supports the negative harmony concept pretty nicely!
Am I the first one to catch this?
You are on a whole new level my Friend! 😂😂🎉

[realjohngalt]

i believe you have the axis drawn wrong in the diagram. the axis should be between the 1 and 5 chord for the given key, in C the axis would be between C and G. you're right that Fmaj becomes Gmin, but using diagram provided here, it's impossible to derive negative harmony correctly... aside from that i like your way of finding the chords using the minor key descending to the left and the major key of the right. you are much better at music than me:)

[gillianomotoso]

Great short! It also helps to start out with knowing that the chords and scales are spelled opposite of each other at their root and fifth, and that the negative of the dominant (V7) is the minor subdominant (iv6), and vice versa. Where one chord is spelled upward from the root, the other is spelled downward from its fifth.