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What is negative melody?
In practice Negative Melody is simply applying Negative Harmony to a single melodic line rather than a chord progression... but this sounds needlessly complex. ... Watch the video here... and then do the same to create your melodies!
How do you get negative harmony?
This melody is C – G – F – E – A – B – C. To create a Negative melody of these notes, each one has to be inverted around the Eb/E point – the middle of the axis created by the key center. The first note, C, is 3 semitones lower than Eb. Therefore to invert it, we have to go 3 semitones higher than E – to the note G.
