Alll the things you are with negative harmony

[Hyppolyte Bergamotte]

[Jimmy blue note]

Negative harmony, eh? Are you positive?

Beautiful playing!

I'm a pretty positive guy. I was playing with another guitarist and I think he was a negative player. Together, we cancelled each other out. Audience got nothing.
We didn't get invited back.

[Bob_Ross]

I'll admit I know almost nothing about "Negative Harmony" -- I read a synopsis about it once a few years back but didn't retain any salient concepts, so I'm basically still at square one wondering WTF is "Negative Harmony" -- but listening to the performance video in OP, I find myself wondering whether that guitarist might be misapplying the technique?

I fully expected the chord changes to be piquant-bordering-on-unrecognizeable...but what happened to the melody?!?! Is he also playing All The Things You Are with "Negative Melody"?

[Jimmy blue note]

Is he also playing All The Things You Are with "Negative Melody"?

That would be None of the Things you Aren't. Great tune. Contrafact on George Harrison's chestnut Something.

[supersoul]

I'd never heard of negative harmony before, but a simple web search brought this up as the second result,
Negative Harmony: a primer | Dan Tepfer in which he talks about his tune that is All the Things You are in negative harmony.

[Irishmuso]

I'd never heard of negative harmony before, but a simple web search brought this up as the second result,
Negative Harmony: a primer | Dan Tepfer in which he talks about his tune that is All the Things You are in negative harmony.

Interesting article and I can see how the application of negative harmony would lead to a particular result. Applying it really strictly would seem to suggest that the chances of arriving at something remotely as valid as the original tune, would be very slight indeed. At the same time, you could get phrases that would be useful as the basis for a separate composition. We all need ways in which we can escape from our routines.

[Mick-7]

The up side is that if you screw up the melody, no one will know.

[Hyppolyte Bergamotte]

Negative harmony, eh? Are you positive?

Beautiful playing!

I'm a pretty positive guy. I was playing with another guitarist and I think he was a negative player. Together, we cancelled each other out. Audience got nothing.
We didn't get invited back.

What a bad luck !
The opposing harmonies have faded !!
HB

[Hyppolyte Bergamotte]

The up side is that if you screw up the melody, no one will know.

And it’s great fun to write !
It’is like a treasure hunt!

[Hyppolyte Bergamotte]

I'll admit I know almost nothing about "Negative Harmony" -- I read a synopsis about it once a few years back but didn't retain any salient concepts, so I'm basically still at square one wondering WTF is "Negative Harmony" -- but listening to the performance video in OP, I find myself wondering whether that guitarist might be misapplying the technique?

I fully expected the chord changes to be piquant-bordering-on-unrecognizeable...but what happened to the melody?!?! Is he also playing All The Things You Are with "Negative Melody"?

Once you changed the notes of the tune following the principles of negative harmony, you have to reharmonize the chords according to