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Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar at Amazon.com. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Ever since my guitar teacher shared his knowledge of Harris' method. Through some of the Alan Kingstone book (The Barry Harris harmonic method for guitar).
Gbmin6 gives you a nice altered dominant sound over F7--b9, 3, b13, b7). I worked out all four inversions of each chord (). This is just a start--the real genius of this way of thinking this way comes when you add in those diminished 'passing' chords. Then you add more movement by doing something Kingstone (via Harris) calls 'Sixth on the Fifth': move down from Bb6 to Eb6 then to Gbmin6. I know this sounds very convoluted but with some time and patience it really starts to pay off. There is more--you can create much richer chords by 'borrowing notes' from the diminished--but this is where I am now. All this is not to tout one system over another.
There are two others relating to minor as well. 335, 10:38 น. On Dec 23, 12:28 pm, pmfan57 wrote: > > Sounds more like Pat Martino's approach. Yes, it does, but I think Pat emphasizes the ii minor of each of the dominants. > > I think Barry Harris, and everyone else really, incorporates into his > approach the fact that any diminished 7 chord actually *is* a Dom7b9 > chord without a root, and in fact can be viewed as four different > ones. Thus, Bbo7, for example, is A7b9, C7b9, Eb7b9 and F#7b9 (each > without its respective root).
Southtexasguitarist, 5:09 น. On Oct 13, 6:46 pm, Tim McNamara wrote: > In article >, > > bigdog wrote: > > Howard Rees is still teaching the Harris method in Toronto. I took > > the course last year (it is a multi year effort, if not a lifetime > > effort) but decided this year to figure out protools and work on my > > improv with a good teacher. I am considering going back next year > > though. Barry Harris still comes up here and gives the odd master > > class.
You won’t come out sounding like everyone else – and that’s the good news! What you will find herein are the structural components, as mapped out and developed by jazz giant Barry Harris, that will guide and aid you on your own personal road to discovery. Imagine, a system for learning jazz harmony that actually embraces the concept of improvisation.
Be prepared to commit. It's something that you practice, not something that you 'think' about when you're playing.) Yes it ALL 'fits' on the guitar just fine. Ronny Ben-Hur actually wrote a book called 'Talk Jazz' that works you through all the 'rules' with fingerings for guitar, although you probably ultimately come up with your own. Barry also teaches some very cool harmonic concepts which revolve around what he calls the Sixth/Diminished scale.
Yes this book does none of that.mind boggling.lolThx Ken. I haven't checked this out, but it's always nice to hear an honest and respectful report of online materials. Your welcome Srlank, It still makes me crazy because i'm sure this method would be great for comping and chord melody as well, but as previously stated their aren't any reall good examples or exercises in the entire book. I bet this could have been a huge seller, but as you see on this forum almost know one ever recomends.yet we want to comp with alot more chord movement then just playing inversions.
It contains G B D E, so it gives a C major chord with 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th. Then it’s possible to “come back down” from the extended C major 9th with a passing diminished: (All of which is happening during a bar of C major chord type!) E B D G (aka G6 = C major 9th) E Bb Db G (aka Db dim = the infamous bII dim7) E A C G (aka C6 = Am7) As you can see, this way of thinking clearly demonstrates what extensions really are and the origins of the passing diminished chords often found in fakebooks. And it is, of course, applicable anytime, anywhere with any chord type. And once again, that is only a fraction of what you can come up with using this new way of relating to chords and harmonic movement in general Other very interesting concepts topics found in the book are: diminished borrowing, Monk moves, solo jazz guitar, applications to intervals, partial chords, applications to single-note playing and altered dominant chords. Finally, while I believe that books and concepts can change your playing for the better, always remember that there’s no magic pill for playing good! You have to investigate, practice and develop a personal style.
For a simple 17 to IV7 vamp- try b5 scale- odd for D7 and even for G7 try b7 scale- odd for C7 and even for G7 If you go to the trouble to actually try these, you might, as I did after discovering them, wonder why you've never come across these ideas before. Last edited by princeplanet; at 08:54 AM. Well, like yourself, it was a personal discovery. I'm sure players would have explored these ideas in the past (Pat Martino), but as I've never read about it anywhere I don't know who, or how. Players are very good at disguising their concepts or devices, especially those who never overdo them, or blend them seamlessly into other devices so you don't know where one ends and another begins. However I will say that octatonic or 'bebop' scales never seem to interest jazz guitarists that much, if they use bits of them it's only because it's embedded in any language they have learned. Let's face it, you never really hear an entire bebop scale, let alone a 2 or 3 octave one!
Its almost like he is saying.look if you want to sound like a bebop pianist, here's the stuff to do. For example, he gives direction on where to start a phrase so that you will end on a chord tone. Its very useful for building melodic lines, but hardly cracks open new vistas in music (pardon the mixed metaphor.) E Rick Stone, 5:50 น. On 9:23 PM, AJK wrote: > Though not half the player Rick Stone is I do consider myself lucky to > have studied with Barry Harris since 1987. I don't offer my book for > free though I've been told by guitarists and some pianists that it has > helped them grasp Barry's concepts. > I caught a glimpse of Ricks work in a magazine years ago and thought > 'hey this looks like my stuff'.
Barry Harris Harmonic Method For Guitar
Barry Harris is a great pianist and a great educator.” “I’ve read every book I could find on bop (Levine, Baker, Coker etc) and even took some private lessons. I managed to pick up some understanding and some skill for improv, but I was left with more questions than answers and after some years of playing I felt like I was in a rut.
Imagine, a system for learning jazz harmony that actually embraces the concept of improvisation. As I see it, there are two paths for a chord player to go down. Either one becomes a 'hitter' or, one becomes a 'mover'. The 'hitter' sits up and works out a couple of beautiful sounding voicings for each kind of chord (or worse, learns someone else's from a method book) - and from that point on, plays them exactly the same way. These vertical groups of notes are 'hit' or 'struck' on the instrument - with no thought to creating movement. The 'mover' on the other hand, understands that chords come from scales and thereby learns to approach chording in a more fluid fashion.
But they really don't give any real examples thats why i'm confounded. I mean even Rick Stone who didn't write the book had better and more examples of how to apply this method. My 2 cents kI have the same complaint about the book. For me an example clarifies the text and gives me a point to start my experimenting with. I find this common with people talking about Barry Harris Approach including Barry Harris himself they make a statement then move past it with minimal explanation.
Adding a note to the major scale is quite easy, of course, but it will tend to lead you to play in a scalar, stepwise way; this way of thinking encourages you to see the underlying chord as the C6 arpeggio and the tension notes as the Bdim7, which is easy to find in relation to it. You can, of course, use this on any Maj7 type of harmony as well as on chords explicitly written with a 6. So one way to think of this is 'On a Maj7 type of chord, play the diminished arpeggio built on the 2, 4, #5 or 7. Being a pianist, though, Barry shows us a bit more when he moves to thinking of it in terms of chords.
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She opened the door and turned on the lights and let me look inside. The space was completely stripped of course, and you could see all the way to the back door (where the kitchen used to be) but I could just visualize where that couch had been (against the left wall next to the stage) where I used to sit and watch Tommy Flanagan play, and the display case full of books and records for sale right up in the front where we setup the tables to copy parts for the concerts while Colridge Taylor was there rehearsing the band for one of those concerts. And I could visually Johnny Griffin sitting there (he was a photographer who used to work the door) and all his pictures of musicians framed on the walls. I was poor as dirt back then and couldn't afford film and developing, so I don't even have a single photo of the place. I wonder if anyone else does? I used to even re-use my cassette tapes of the class and jam sessions, so the couple I've found are kind of a mish-mash of whatever from that time, and badly labeled.
Use fingerboard diagrams, TAB paper or whatever you need to get the information off the page and into your head, ears and hands. Rename the string sets to make them more easily recognizable to you.
“I guess you could say Barry Harris is one of the very last of the bebop purists that we have on piano. He is a living and brilliant extension of Bud Powell.” Walter Bishop Jr. “I’ve always thought that if Charlie Parker had played piano, he would sound exactly like Barry Harris. Or is it the other way around? Musician Testimonials “Barry’s Workshop Video is a valuable educational tool for anyone interested in the inner workings of modern jazz.” Kenny Burrell “A fine workshop for striving pianists and serious students who want to play modern harmonies in the style of Charlie Parker.” Tommy Flanagan “This package offers information that hasn’t been given before. It is a very practical and organized way of looking at chord movement applied to the areas of accompaniment, arranging and composition. Customer Testimonials “I just received mine about a week ago, and I am thrilled with it.
But that's just one of a great many ways to approach dom7 chords. Remember that the term 'altered dom7 chord' is bandied about pretty loosely these days. Some people see C13b9 as being an 'altered dom7 chord'. And it is 'altered', on one level. It's got an 'altered' 9th. But it's not really 'a dom7alt' chord, if you get my drift.
I'm now a bit embarrassed to have posted publicly my comments about your book (which is excellent by the way). I hope that my comments will not discourage anyone considering buying your book.
In any case, Barry's sense of time, motion and rhythm is absolutely impeccable.' Benny Golson 'A list of Harris' graduates reads like a Who's Who of Jazz; among them are Paul Chambers, Curtis Fuller, Joe Henderson, Lonnie Hillyer, Yusef Lateef, Hugh Lawson, Kirk Lightsey, Charles McPherson, and Doug Watkins.' 'Harris' (method) is unique in both its emphasis and detail, for it teaches students precisely how to transform the (basic theoretical) elements into credible phrases and focuses as much upon the creative processes of improvisation as upon its products, effectively clarifying the relationship between theory and performance practice in the jazz tradition.' 'Harris' theory is an expansive generative method. It encourages musicians to create original phrases based, in part, on the cross-fertilization of rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic models embodied in the rules Harris promulgates.'
It isn't easy but it's always been worth the time spent. Sometimes the only thing we can do is roll up our sleeves, wade in and sweat it out. That is if we really want it badly enough. Regards, Jerome. Djangoles, I agree that Van Eps' string set names can be confusing at first but with steady deliberate practice you'll get used to them. Breaking the book out once a year and then giving up in frustration won't get it done.
One / three / five (etc) extra note(s) when starting on 1 / 3 / 5 / 7 of a scale works rhythmically. Zero / two / four (etc) extra notes when starting on 2 / 4 / 6 of a scale works rhythmically.
Great work and may I bug you with a question or two along the way? Thank you for this book. Great work!!! Studying the concepts put forth in this book will not teach you a set of hip sounding voicings. You won’t come out sounding like everyone else – and that’s the good news! What you will find herein are the structural components, as mapped out and developed by jazz giant Barry Harris, that will guide and aid you on your own personal road to discovery. Imagine, a system for learning jazz harmony that actually embraces the concept of improvisation.
Has anyone > worked with/through it? Back in the late 80's or early 90's the jazz faculty at McGill University handed classes over to Barry Harris for one week and the results on the students were amazing. He also inspired those of us who were on the staff at that time. Although the 'Passing tone' scale or 'bebop' scales theory is well known in a ' scratching the surface' way, the ramifications of it's prolonged and intense study and application are not so well known. There is also a harmonic or chordal component to Barry's concept that is much less known.
I would suggest you might do the same. Use fingerboard diagrams, TAB paper or whatever you need to get the information off the page and into your head, ears and hands. Rename the string sets to make them more easily recognizable to you. For me, the best part of working with Van Eps' books has been those moments when the lights go on and I realise how to take what had been an exercise and use it to play music.
In the end, it is more a matter of choosing the path that moves you forward.
-- Rick Stone email: website: epk: Other sites: joel fass, 16:00 น. Don't get me wrong.
You shouldn't have to re-learn everything you know, instead you can use it to supplement things you already know. If we look at the typical choices for common chords: Cmaj7 =two choices. One is Cmaj6. Pretty easy, 6 chords are a pretty standard sub for maj7 chords. The other is Gmaj6, which has the same notes as Em7 (G B D E). Em7 as a substitute for Cmaj9 was one of the very first subs I learned back in the day, and I suspect that's true for many guitar players.
I'm now a bit embarrassed to have posted publicly my comments about your book (which is excellent by the way). I hope that my comments will not discourage anyone considering buying your book. I bought it and I'm very glad I did! I do have one basic question that I thought I might share with everyone since it is something I've run across elsewhere when googling the Barry Harris method: How are the 7th diminished and 7b5 diminished scales and chords used? There is a LOT of great information about how to think about and use the Maj/Min 6th dim. Scales but the other two are only harmonized and shown with inversions on the fingerboard charts.
The 'Harris Method' is structured more explicitly around bop practice and focuses on creating smooth chromatic melodies through the use of certain 'rules' (for example, descending from the tonic, 3rd, 5th or 7th of a major scale add one half-step between the 6th and 5th degree). There is obviously much more to it, but the system is less about learning specific scales (e.g. Lydian augmented) than about chromatically manipulating major and scales. Where things get interesting is in the harmonic underpinnings of this approach. For Harris the diminished scale has a foundational importance for the derivation of all the harmonic materials a player will use. Out of this focus on the diminished come a set of scales, what he calls sixth-diminished scales: a major (or minor) sixth chord combined with a 'related' diminished chord.
Rick is a truly great teacher and player--I now wish I had been a better student! I recently bought Alan Kingstones book 'The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar' which is proving to be very helpful (I'm working through the 2nd chapter on movement right now). My take on Alan's book is that it requires a knowledge of theory and a commitment to work hard unraveling Alan's short comments. If anything, Alan could have provided more examples and commentary since it reads a bit like a transcription of his or Barry's notes.
CD Included Hi Alan, Just received a copy of your book. I have been fascinated by this method. You have laid it out so beautifully and I am going to work on it. I have had the opportunity to play with Barry a few times over the years.
It encourages musicians to create original phrases based, in part, on the cross-fertilization of rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic models embodied in the rules Harris promulgates.' Excerpts from 'Thinking in Jazz', by Paul F. Berliner, University of Chicago Press 1994. Testimonials What Others Have Said 'Hi Alan, Just received a copy of your Book. I have been fascinated by this method.
Maybe we can find some better books for your approach to the subject. Maybe not, I don't know a lot on the topic myself. Still struggling. Excellent book.I thought it was a little rough at first.you have re-orient your thinking a little, but it's well worth it. Every year or so I break out the Van Epps book and give it a whirl only to give up in frustration. I always get confused by his string set naming conventions. Broken Divided etc.the one instance where I'd love to see something in tab.djangoles, I agree that Van Eps' string set names can be confusing at first but with steady deliberate practice you'll get used to them.
Anyway, the reason our stuff looks similar is pretty obvious; it's BARRY's stuff!!:-) I've got notebooks filled with stuff like that. When I came back around 1990 he was using a small theater between 8th & 9th Ave. Around the corner from where JCT had been. I used to tape the class and transcribe EVERYTHING. People told me I should put out a book on it, but I felt funny about that, thinking that Barry should be the one to write the book. But as he seems to have little inclination to do anything like that, I think that you and Roni did the right thing.
Eb6 is another name for C-7. Gbmin6 gives you a nice altered dominant sound over F7--b9, 3, b13, b7). I worked out all four inversions of each chord (). This is just a start--the real genius of this way of thinking this way comes when you add in those diminished 'passing' chords.
But the amount of pedagogical material has exploded in the past 20+ years. A student today has a surprisingly large number of approaches or methods to choose from. None of the teachers I've had were dogmatic in their adherence to a particular methodology, but they did have preferences. In high school I was exposed to the Jamey Aebersold approach--basically a scale-chord method. You derive the melodic material you want to play from a scale or set of scales. There is more to it than this, and the Aebersold world is also closely connected to legendary jazz educator David N. Baker and his ideas on playing jazz.
About Barry Harris 'I guess you could say Barry Harris is one of the very last of the bebop purists that we have on piano. He is a living and brilliant extension of Bud Powell.' Walter Bishop Jr. 'I've always thought that if Charlie Parker had played piano, he would sound exactly like Barry Harris. Or is it the other way around?