Why “Chromatic Mediants” sound so good!
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 Published On Mar 5, 2024

Enter the rabbit hole and learn pitch class inversion and the Ionian/Phrygian relationship.
It works with any scale, btw.

Also, this explains the sonically interesting things that “Negative Harmony,” and “Modal Interchange” try to explain, just in a different way. I think this “pitch-class-inversion” stuff does a better job explaining it, imo. Chromatic Mediants, Coltrane changes, Tadd Dameron turnaround, and other cool and stuff make a lot of sense with the “flippening!”

Follow-up video idea:
Dorian (symmetrical)
Ionian & Phrygian (inverted)
Locrian & Lydian (inverted)
Aeolian & Mixolydian (inverted)

Mixolydian b6 (aka Aeolian-Major) is the symmetrical set related to Melodic minor.

Double-Harmonic Major (symmetrical)

Harmonic minor (not symmetrical, flips to V of Harmonic major, Mixolydian b2)

If you’d like to check out my books and dig into this stuff further, I briefly mention this concept in my book, “Voicing Modes” but it’s a bigger part of my book “The 4-Note Universe”
https://www.noeljohnston.com/merch.html

Thanks!

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