Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 19 minutes ago
In this part 1 of Negative harmony, we look at inversions of melodies to make new music from existing music. It’s a technique that many composers use throughout history and is fundamental for learning the essence of negative harmony. In This crustal clear guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to make a melody inversion from a simple melody like “Twinkle Little Star” and “Still Got The Blues” by Gary Moore. We will make a diatonic and strict (chromatic) inversion of both melodies. This is what you need to know first, to understand the hot subject of Negative Harmony that was invented (more of less) by Ernst Levy and popularized by musical genius Jacob Collier.
*Chapters:*
0:00 Introduction
1:06 Why bother with negative harmony
1:56 What is Negative Harmony?
3:36 Inversion of a melody
4:23 Diatonic inversion: Twinkle Little Star
6:46 Diatonic inversion: Still Got The Blues
9:37 Chromatic or strict inversion
11:23 Chromatic inversion examples
13:30 Conclusion
*LINK:*
Tomasso Zillio explanes negative harmony using Rachmaninov’s variation nr. 18 on a theme by Paganini:
youtu.be/0oI2iFrzA0o?feature=shared
*Copyrights:*
Chick Corea:
Ice Boy Tell, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
C. Ronaldo:
Oleg Dubyna from Poltava, Ukraine, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Messi:
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons.
Newhaven Band:
By William Hames Photography - fnarecords.net/, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=118688954
Steve Vai:
Wojciech Pędzich, CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
*Crystal Clear E-BOOKS with audio files:*
qjamtracks.shopify.com
*Tabs and tracks at PATREON:*
patreon.com/Qjamtracks
*Social Media/contact: *
https:// facebook.com/QJamTracks
https:// instagram.com/QJamTracks
https:// youtube.com/QJamTracks
*Strandberg Guitars*
strandbergguitars.com
*Fractal Audio (FM9)*
fractalaudio.com
(c)2024 Rob van Hal, Netherlands
Subjects:
negative harmony,
inversion,
melody inversion,
mirror melody,
mirror around axis,
inversion of a melody,
chord inversion,
Harmony inversion,
Diatonic inversion,
Chromatic inversion,
Strict inversion,
composition techniques,
Writing melodies,
How to write a melody,
Variations on a theme,
How to make a variation,
How to write melodies,
Ernst Levy,
Jacob Collier,
twinkle little star,
still got the blues.
In this part 1 of Negative harmony, we look at inversions of melodies to make new music from existing music. It’s a technique that many composers use throughout history and is fundamental for learning the essence of negative harmony. In This crustal clear guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to make a melody inversion from a simple melody like “Twinkle Little Star” and “Still Got The Blues” by Gary Moore. We will make a diatonic and strict (chromatic) inversion of both melodies. This is what you need to know first, to understand the hot subject of Negative Harmony that was invented (more of less) by Ernst Levy and popularized by musical genius Jacob Collier.
*Chapters:*
0:00 Introduction
1:06 Why bother with negative harmony
1:56 What is Negative Harmony?
3:36 Inversion of a melody
4:23 Diatonic inversion: Twinkle Little Star
6:46 Diatonic inversion: Still Got The Blues
9:37 Chromatic or strict inversion
11:23 Chromatic inversion examples
13:30 Conclusion
*LINK:*
Tomasso Zillio explanes negative harmony using Rachmaninov’s variation nr. 18 on a theme by Paganini:
youtu.be/0oI2iFrzA0o?feature=shared
*Copyrights:*
Chick Corea:
Ice Boy Tell, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
C. Ronaldo:
Oleg Dubyna from Poltava, Ukraine, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Messi:
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons.
Newhaven Band:
By William Hames Photography - fnarecords.net/, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=118688954
Steve Vai:
Wojciech Pędzich, CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
*Crystal Clear E-BOOKS with audio files:*
qjamtracks.shopify.com
*Tabs and tracks at PATREON:*
patreon.com/Qjamtracks
*Social Media/contact: *
https:// facebook.com/QJamTracks
https:// instagram.com/QJamTracks
https:// youtube.com/QJamTracks
*Strandberg Guitars*
strandbergguitars.com
*Fractal Audio (FM9)*
fractalaudio.com
(c)2024 Rob van Hal, Netherlands
Subjects:
negative harmony,
inversion,
melody inversion,
mirror melody,
mirror around axis,
inversion of a melody,
chord inversion,
Harmony inversion,
Diatonic inversion,
Chromatic inversion,
Strict inversion,
composition techniques,
Writing melodies,
How to write a melody,
Variations on a theme,
How to make a variation,
How to write melodies,
Ernst Levy,
Jacob Collier,
twinkle little star,
still got the blues.
