A musical experiment

[gismo recording]

I imagined a backwards keyboard where the notes were mirror image of where they are on a regular keyboard. Then I imagined if I played a chord on that keyboard, what would it actually play. So I figured out this chord mapping:

B<->Bb

C<->A

C#<->Ab

D<->G

Eb<-> F#

E<->F

 

The mapping is the same in either direction and majors change to minors and vice versa. Power chords are still power chords

 

Now the second part of my experiment. Take a song that has only major and minor chords and substitute the inverted chords, then see if I can come up with a melody to sing the lyrics that works with the inverted chords.

 

I found one song it worked with. I tried a few others but none of them worked.

 

http://www.kendenny.com/music/KenDenny/InvertedSong.mp3

[Anderton]

How did you remap the keyboard?

[gismo recording]

How did you remap the keyboard?

 

​I didn't. I just figured out what the chords would be on a backwards keyboard and played those chords instead of the regular chords.