The 2 concepts from barry harris that transformed my playing overnight. Barry doyle harris born december 15, 1929 is an american jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger and educator. This professionally produced product comprises over 4 hours of video and includes a 112 page workbook. The barry harris workshop video howard rees jazz workshops. Inasmuch as i believe you go to the river because the river doesnt come to you, well, that means only good things happen in a visit to barry harris land. Scale outlines, notebynote line building over standard progressions with barry, on tunes such as.
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. Theyre hours of video featuring barry harris a pianist who was there in bebop from the beginning. This guide will teach you the very basics of jazz improv covering subjects such as outlining the changes, hitting the right notes, and most importantly making music. I especially love their band from 19541958, the one with bud powell, phil woods, and donald byrd, with arthur taylor on drums and paul chambers on bass. Original jazz classics ojccd10622 barry harris quintet newer than new milestone m47050 barry harris stay right with it. 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 halfstep between the 6th and 5th. Be prepared to throw out everything you thought you knew modern harmony is not based on seventh chords and twofiveones, but on sixth chords and major and minor sixth. The chords to this tune are played over whats called a rhythm changes. I chanced upon a youtube video of barry harris working with astonished students and he did a similar thing except he played them over the bebop major scale. It seem like it would be useful for other jazz playersstudents like me.
He and barry have been very successful with the diminished approach. He plays a wide range of styles, from blues to ballads, from bebop to hard bop. In this 5 minute masterclass, were going explore a concept known as the barry harris voicings. Get a first hand, upclose, private lesson on the art of bebop piano from one of the originating masters. It is important to note that the notion of bebop scales is a concept that arose after bebop had already emerged as a distinct style of jazz. Barry harriss sixth diminished scale cochrane music.
On monday, november 26, he was out of icu, but the excellent doctors at the nikolay. The more i learn about barry harris jazz theory system the more interesting it becomes. Outlining barry harris bebop scale tone seventh chords. Jackie mclean barrys video will, without question, help anyone who is seriously interested in gaining a knowledge of. Barry harris weekly new york city jazz workshops was getting under way on a tuesday night in december, a friendly stranger gave me some advice. Barry harris method for learning bebop mandolin cafe forum. Barry harris may have done more to publicise these ideas than anyone, but noone owns them theyre right at the heart of bebop especially bud powell and charlie parker. I transcribed two dvd boxes containing 8 discs of over 8 hours of workshops by pianist barry harris that were recorded and published by howard rees. Furthermore, i transcribed about 54 videos of barry harris that were published on the website, and several solos of him.
Indiana donna lee, blues, rhythm changes, anthropology, cherokee, how high the. The 2 concepts from barry harris that transformed my playing overnight youtube getting started with barry harriss sixth diminished system. Official barry harris thread jazz guitar online free. Here is a pdf i wrote up about some of barry harriss ideas about bebop improvisation. Barry harris is one of the legendary teachers in jazz. These licks are taken from various lessons on the site. Barry harriss sixth diminished scale heres a great excerpt from a barry harris workshop where he introduces an interesting diminished concept, which he jokingly calls his personal scale. The barry harris workshop video is an outstanding educational package which provides a wealth of material for students, teachers and musicians alike.
Through his playing, composing, band leading, and teaching, harris has touched the lives of many. That program is structured around the ideas of bebop pianist barry harris. Hi, i came across this reference during my bebop studies. The barry harris workshop dvds and the alan kingstone book on the barry harris harmonic method next, try your hand at some improv with our free guide. Please subscribe to my youtube channel and feel free to. The barry harris workshop dvd part one 4 dvdsworkbook by. Barry harris took this solo on the tune moose the mooche. Books by barry harris author of the barry harris workshop.
Some thoughts after watching barry harris workshop videos vols. Pioneering jazz pedagogues david baker and barry harris are the two musicians most commonly credited with the development of the concepts surrounding bebop scales. While paying strict attention to voice leading, each of the four voices, leads to the next note in the scale, creating a very interesting take on the bebop scale. Description download barry harris bebop exercise free in pdf format. Complete your charles mcpherson with carmell jones and barry harris collection.
The barry harris workshop dvd part one 4 dvdsworkbook. I play this vocabulary on funk gigs, on straight ahead jazz gigs, on more modern jazz, its even helped my playing in a free jazz context. I like listening mostly to bird, bud, and monk charlie parker, bud powell, and thelonious monkeds. Barry harris halfstep practice model for bebop scales. It produces a very cool jazz sound by a quite unexpected means. A huge list of over 20 licks that i have gathered over the years. We begin by learning about classic bebop licks, barry harris, bebop scales, and harmony. Checkerboard has created a lively picture of a musician and teacher, who has worked hard, often in the face of prevailing musical trends, to keep the spirit of bebop alive. For years it has been an unwritten law that the understanding of, and ability to function com fortably in bebop represents a solid basis for dealing with almost all other jazz styles. Print and download in pdf or midi the great list of great licks.
Study group things i learned from barry harris study. Shop our newest and most popular barry harris sheet music such as indiana, or click the button above to browse all barry harris sheet music. The official barry harris website for jazz education and. Imagine, a system for learning jazz harmony that actually embraces the concept of improvisation.
At the end of the video, i show you my first 10 modern bebop. Charlie parker recorded a number of solos on the chord progression to what is this thing called love. If you have followed any of the classes of barry harris then you are probably familiar with the idea of writing lines like this where you have a scale. The official barry harris website for jazz education and information on the chordal side of things, the late rick stone had a couple of articles on the sixth diminished scales in just jazz guitar magazine. Internationally renowned, he is an exponent of the classic jazz style that was developed by charlie parker, dizzy gillespie, bud powell, thelonious monk, and coleman hawkins. It is the successful culmination of a two year project to document for the first time, the legendary teachings of barry harris. The barry harris harmonic method for guitar howard rees. I havent seen this posted beforeapologies if it had been posted previously. How to use bebop scales like a pro learn jazz standards. This is an arrangement of irving berlins white christmas using barry harriss 6th diminished system.
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